blog SEVEN (#7)

Well, both of these pictures are from The Beatles’ movie “Yellow Submarine.” It was an animated film voiced by actors and released in 1968. I’ll start by discussing their movement. In the top picture the movement is definitely horizontal. If you see the film, the characters move in all directions but the ‘sea of holes’ is constantly forcing your eyes in a horizontal direction. The bottom picture on the other hand had us looking vertically up at the band (as helped with the rail thing, putting a vertical line there.) The bottom picture is also helped vertically as we can see all we need to in the center of the image – everything else is background, putting it at the forefront.

In terms of color the bottom one is obviously upbeat, happy, colorful. It’s very bright, and that helps to create a mood throughout those scenes. The top on the other hand is plain – that goofy looking character is called the “Nowhere Man” (after The Beatles song). He lives in a ‘sea of holes’ and is a nowhere man. So the plain black and white background gives us that feeling and knowledge – before the characters even speak, we know he is simple - black and white.

Lighting is similar to color – the bottom picture is very bright, very happy. The lighting gives us that feeling of joy, and the rainbow helps to pronounce the band in the front. To highlight them - it’s all thought out. The top one on the other hand is very plain – but this plain lighting also helps to highlight the band, as they are in color. So both pictures using totally different methods accomplish the same thing. For symbolism I’d say the bottom one symbolizes something good – that’s what I get out of the picture. The top one isn’t bad, or even negative, it’s just plain – which I am sure was their intention in making it. In fact in putting them on a plain background it shows their true colors (literally) and so it really makes our main characters look great for what they are, as there are no distractions in the background. Very cool, I hope you enjoyed reading it!