This short is an experiment in light and color. The first half is slow-motion black & white footage or children playing in a room as a bright light is shone around and upon them. The second half abruptly kicks in with the music to show fast-paced, brightly colored shots of the kids putting on face paint. The short ends with individual shots of each child with his or her face paint cumulating into dozens of superimposed layers of their spinning heads.
“Colors” started with just the BW footage to a Jim Guthrie song, but once I heard the Stereolab I realized the transition in the song was perfect for a jump from slow, high-contrast, black-and-white to fast, highly saturated, color footage. The layer effect at the end I was very pleased with, especially since it is such a simple idea. The hand-written title card is actually my handwriting from when I was 4 years old and learning to write. I found an old alphabet I’d written and pulled out the letters needed to spell “Colors.”
Credits
Music by: Stereolab from ‘Aluminum Tunes’
Location: Dandridge Christian Learning Center