I'm Salik Waquas, a working film colorist and owner of a color grading company called Color Culture. Over the years, I've had the opportunity to work on projects of various formats, always aiming to bring out the story that the visuals are trying to tell. Writing this analysis of Joker's cinematography allows me to express my fascination with its visual storytelling, from a technical and.
Joker Cinematographer Describes Color in Film First things first, let's talk about the technical aspects of how color is achieved in film. The first term to learn is Log. Log is the digital negative, the flat and desaturated images that get manipulated to bring in color later.
Log not only preserves your images' tonality and dynamic range, but it also retains a wide range of colors seen by the. Joker (2019), colour graded by the fantastic Dustin Wadsworth, is an example of that. The basic building blocks of colour grading used in Joker are the primary colours red, blue and yellow, each signifying a very distinct aspect of the story.
Lawrence Sher's eye for detail and an understated use of color, light and cinematography cement Joker's place as a modern classic. Joker's iconic color combo was green and purple, so why no purple? After thinking about this, and his new wardrobe, I came to this conclusion: Purple reflects royalty, and Arthur is anything but royal. He lives in a run-down apartment, has a chronic medical condition, is shunned by society, fired from his job, lives in exile and is now a.
Explore how Joker uses visual storytelling through cinematography, color palette, and symbolism to reflect Arthur Fleck's psychological transformation. Discover how Gotham's gritty realism and iconic imagery shape the film's tone and narrative depth. Sher breaks down the basics of using hue, saturation, and light in cinematography to evoke a certain mood, reveal character, and help progress the plot.
He also spends time discussing how great Italian cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro, influenced his approach to lighting Joker. The video is like color in film 101. So sit back and spend a few minutes learning the basics of color in Lawrence.
SLC-0L-03: Joker Cinematographer On Light & Color Watching the movie Joker, I felt repeatedly that I was watching a film that Greg Heisler could have lit. The use of color was unique, sophisticated and fearless. So, I became curious about the cinematography of Joker and wanted to know more.
The Colors of Joker That's when I stumbled upon this amazing video from the popular culture magazine Vanity Fair. In it, Joker cinematographer Lawrence Sher breaks down the use of color and lighting in Joker and some of his other films. He even goes as far as explaining shooting in LOG to the viewers, most of.
COLOR-PALETTE - LIGHT &SHADOW IN JOKER Alongside camera movement to show the transition from Arthur to Joker, Sher also used lighting and shadow to hammer home the descent into darkness - "As Arthur becomes Joker, his composition in the frame changes. Weight, perspective, power. Joker is Arthur's Shadow.
Getting darker and bolder.