Colours of Film: The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes

Got it as a gift for someone and they loved it.

A fascinating read for those who watch films a little closer than others.

What a lovely book. My daughter will be so pleased with it, when she receives it at christmas time. Many thanks. Carol

Was a present for someone, good quality book that they had requested. They were very pleased. Arrived very quickly.

This is a truly gorgeous book, full of breathtaking colour.

Why a three star review? Well, first of all, its a very interesting book, and the content is very good, and film buffs will definitely relish it.... but for a book about colour in cinema, the colours of the printing appear terribly washed out and uninspiring. And difficult to read as the font size is quite small, and the printing is sometimes on coloured paper- even with a reading light on, I had difficulties. but the content is first class.

I wanted to love this book and recommend it to my students; which I will - but with some reservations. Firstly, it's a really good guide to the use of colour in the cimema, demonstrating the way that the colour can be used to set not only the look, but the emotional tone of the film. Each film has a short description followed by pictures from the film with solid areas or colour, this is a good method to illustrate the use but falls down on the printing process. The book is printed on a matte paper; but the colours are muddy even for matt. RGB settings for each colour are givn at the foot of the page so you can dial them into something like Adobe Photoshop and see them on a computer screen. In the case of the colours I tried they only bore a passing resemblance to the colour printed in the book. This would be in line with what I would have expected, RGB doesn't translate into CMYK that happily often - but it also doesn't show on my reasonable set up what I might see in a cinema. This point is made by the author repeatedly as digital cinema is obviously not his favourite way of seeing films, especially those that were originated on 35/70mm film. He would raher see film as film (as would I) but doesn't really mention how the changes in projector lamps would have made a huge difference to the on screen colours. Other technical details are an issue. For example we are told that Technicolor developed bi-pack Kodachrome in 1915; there's some confusion here. Kodachrome is a Kodak (Eastman) product.. Technicolor followed with a two strip camera a year or two later. I spotted other minor issues. As I said at the start, I wanted love this. I do despite the issues - it's a well written introduction to colour in film; just could be a bit better.

I love how this book looks on my coffee table. I love film and tv so this is a great edition in my home to give it a bit of personality. Looks great and interesting to learn about film through ages

Bought as a gift for a graphic designer who loved it. Indeed the colour coding of movies was fascinating to read about.

Polecam

El producto es precioso estéticamente y está cuidado. La elección de películas parece aleatoria en muchos casos y lo puedes terminar en muy poco tiempo. La información que aporta a veces no se relaciona con la propia temática del libro y cuando terminas una entrada te quedas pensando: ¡pero si no ha dicho nada sobre el color! En resumen es un bonito libro decorativo pero le falta consistencia e información enfocada en su tema de manera adecuada. Al final contiene un indice de libros de temática similar mucho más trabajados

Libro ben fatto e ben rifinito preso per un regalo ottimo!

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