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Colour Scheme: Movie: Incredible

The document discusses how color palettes were used in the movie 'Incredibles' to represent different periods in the main character's life. Highly saturated colors like red, orange, blue and yellow represented his superhero days, while desaturated greys, greens and browns represented his forced normal life working in an insurance company.

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Colour Scheme: Movie: Incredible

The document discusses how color palettes were used in the movie 'Incredibles' to represent different periods in the main character's life. Highly saturated colors like red, orange, blue and yellow represented his superhero days, while desaturated greys, greens and browns represented his forced normal life working in an insurance company.

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Colour scheme

Movie: incredible

During the glory days of superheroes, fighting crime in the city and saving
people’s life. The Colours were highly saturated and full of energy. Those
colours were usually red, orange, blue and yellow. The colour red represents
anger, passion, rage, desire, excitement, energy, speed, strength, power, heat,
love, aggression, danger, fire, blood, war, violence; orange represents humour,
energy, balance, warmth, enthusiasm, vibrant, expansive, flamboyant; blue
represents faith, spirituality, contentment, loyalty, fulfilment peace,
tranquility, calm, stability, harmony, unity, trust, truth, confidence,
conservatism, security, cleanliness, order, sky, water, cold, technology,
depression, calming; yellow represents wisdom, knowledge, relaxation, joy,
happiness, optimism, idealism, imagination, hope, sunshine, summer,
dishonesty, cowardice, betrayal, jealousy, covetousness, deceit, illness, hazard .

(The superhero days)

And then when there lawsuit against all the superheroes in the city and they
were forced to use superpowers and fit in with the normal citizens, the colours
were desaturated and lightened which weren’t for them. The colours that was
mostly used were grey, pale green and brown.
(While working in the insurance company)

In this movie two different colour palette were used to document the changes
in Bob’s life. In the beginning highly saturated colours were used to show the
superhero life of Bob and then desaturated and dull colours were used to show
the boring ‘normal life’ of Bob in the insurance company.

(Highly saturated colour palette)


(Desaturated and muted colour palette)

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