Blog assignment #7

            The movie Wall-E is about a robot that goes about his everyday life with his job, but wants so much more. One day, a new robot comes into his life and he knows instantly that she is the one that he wants. Because these robots are from two different worlds, one can assume these contrasting worlds would be more obviously portrayed by incorporating different elements for each world. The first contrasting element of this film is obviously color. As is portrayed in the above images, one picture is very clearly meant to be a blue hue, while the other picture is meant to have a yellow, golden hue. The color differentiation is used to show how different the two worlds are. The golden yellow color is used to represent earth while the blue color is used to represent space. Not only are these colors different, but also they are close to opposite on the color wheel; only further confirmation that the two worlds differ. The artist who drew these pictures decided to give both worlds value, meaning that the pictures would be monochromatic and would have elements of black in them as opposed to being saturated, which would make the pictures have elements of white in them. Along with that, the artist made sure that for the “earth world” he put the darker colors in the back and the brighter colors in the front not only to show where the light was coming from, but to also draw the audience’s attention to what he thought was important. For the “space world” the artist does the same by making the background colors darker and the front images lighter. However, to keep it obvious that the worlds were different, he made sure to have the “space world’s” background fade to lighter blue. For the lighting of the pictures, especially the first, he made sure that when making the light appear to be coming from in front of Wall-e, to make the shadows behind him. The lighting and color of this picture create a sort of eerie mood to the world; almost ominous really. When the camera pans out to the whole earth, it is evident that when picking the golden yellow colors, the exact intent was to create an ominous feel. For the “space world” picture, the colors and lighting chosen were intended to create a blissful, happy, calm feeling. Especially in the picture chosen. At this time in the movie, Wall-e and Eve are both safe from harm. When using these colors and lighting, there is a sub-conscious confirmation of calm.