Color is an extremely important part of modern filmmaking.The way we perceive color is greatly influenced by our cultural understanding. We all grew up learning that Fire is Hot and Ice is Cold. Therefor red and orange are warm colors while blue and cyan are cool colors.This association in our mind is so strong that filmmakers can actually invoke a sense of temperature just by the color palette they use in their films.
Lets understand color technically -
How Digital Camera Capture Color?
Ari Presler describes how a CMOS chip works. He developed high resolution digital cameras for Hollywood, starting with the movie "Slumdog Millionaire". Silicon Imaging is a company based of of Niskayuna, New York. This interview was done in 2009 at the Edison Tech Center.
How pixel gets its color?
This video explains how pixels are assigned RGB values using a bayer filter system. It is one of the many bonus lessons on my new DVD, Photoshop Crash Course which will teach you how to think in Photoshop terms. This particular video was made to help explain how pixels are assigned colors and why this is important when working in Photoshop.
CCD
Continuing with my review of camera sensor technology I attempt to show how this CCD sensor captures and shifts out the electrons to a capacitor/amplifier before being sent to the analogue to digital convertor which gives a digital value proportional to the light which fell on that pixel during the exposure cycle.
History and science of Color Temperature : Filmmakeriq.com
Survey the effect of color temperature and its psychological effects from the incessant heat of Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” to the icy chill of the Coen Brothers’ “Fargo”. Then we look at the science of color temperature from it’s beginnings with Max Planck to how color temperature is measured with new alternative sources of lighting before looking at some practical and artistic uses of white balance. This video is part of the FIlmmakerIQ course on "The History and Science of Color Temperature".
Color in digital filmmaking - Filmmakeriq.com
Color is a natural everyday experience - but how do you use color to advance your film?