Basic Training: Composition 101: Part 1 (page 3)
Maintaining Your Composition
It's important to keep consistency in your composition to keep from confusing your viewer. Your actors need to look and speak in consistent directions, two characters facing one another over a dinner table, for example, shouldn't be shown in closeups looking in the same direction.
Using Color
Color composition is a major part of many motion pictures -- M. Night Shaymalon's The Village, for example, made good use of the color red to represent evil elements and cooler blues to represent good.
Months before shooting begins, many directors, production designers, and directors of photography will choose a color palette for a movie, which includes wardrobe, deciding what types of colors will work together to give the audience the proper "feel". For an example of hyper-color composition, check out Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover.
Conclusion
Don't get that cap and gown out of mothballs yet, it's not quite time for graduation.
We showed you the basics; next month, we'll show you some advanced tips on composition to take your shots from video postcards to masterpiece showcases.
Kyle Cassidy is a visual artist who writes extensively about technology.
Basic Training: Composition 102: Part 2
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