Essay Structure

Between colour and composition, what is the most effective tool in cinematography to convey power in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)?

Intro

-          Purpose of cinematography – to communicate à book 1 and 2 and 3

-          Article 2 – what are the most important

-          Rules of cinematopgry stem from paintings, pre dates photography and cinema – article 3

-          There are two types of power – artificial and primal à video 1

-          What are the divides of power – primarily split between the will of fellow man and the force of fate ?

-          Article 1

Para 1

-          Man v man – buster Scruggsbb

-          Monochromatic – article 1 book 3 – colour reflects subject and tone of story done

-          White vs black  done

-          Scale done

-          Horizon line / thirds? done

-          Off centre – centrality video 1 book 3 – disrupt pattern MAYBE

Para 2

-          Man vs fate – analgones

-          Analogous

-          Blue vs orange – article 4 breaking rules
book 4 – orange duality
book 2 – color most important. Change with him.

-          Lines of perspective video 1

-          Reuse of shots to show change – book 1 contrast

-          Off centre -> book 1 balance
centrality video 1

Para 3

-          Man vs man and fate? – meal ticket

-          Complimentary and triadic colour theme.

-          Red = worth
red/green – video 3 article 4 negative and positive components

-          Contrast – video 2

-          Nose /sight room à book1 artixal 3

-          Negative space à video 1

-          Frame within a frame – the stage…

Conclusion

-          Composition has better served the coen brothers in conveying power as they rely on a wide variety where as the colours are used to support what the composition suggest

-          Composition is what gives the colour their meaning as colour is a completely nuanced association

-          However

-          Overall, in cinema, composition will always be more important in cinematography as a tool because it is the visual necces

-          Black and white films article 6-8

-          Colour blind people  article 6

NOTES:

-          Books 1 and 2 and video 2 and 3 emphasis the innate reactions we have to colour agree colour is most

-          Vieod 1 says comp is most effective and fundamemtal
article 2 says it is the 2^nd most important therefore above colour rated 4^th or 5^th

-          Faults of colour

-          Research supports comp