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Week of 4/12/19
Goal:
- finish up project (simplify color identification code, assign emotions to colors
Results:
- renamed color values and still in process of optimizing code
- will use emotion-color charts from previous research to finish assignment process
Week of 3/15/19
Goal:
- work on 3/4 presentation
- combine all of the visual team's work
- run through the process with our movies
Results:
- Maya, Jacob and I met on 3/9 and combined our work via github
- added steps to use each code to the readme.md
- wrote my slides for the presentation
- ran the code (dirFrames.py, scenedetect, colorific) on In the Mood for Love (2000) and the Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Week of 3/1/19
Goal:
- continue refining the process of converting video to scenes to frames to dominant colors
Results:
- I edited the code converting a video into a set of frames by now allowing it to handle directories of video
- found the keywords needed for scenedetect to split one video into scene clips and store in one folder
- edited the colorific source code to process a directory and create a csv file with the dominant color information instead of printing to the command line or creating images of the color palette
Week of 2/21/19
Goal:
- find ways to analyze color, emotion etc in the 5 films chose earlier
- come up with sentence regarding 3/4 presentation
Results
- analyzing color, emotion, etc
- downloaded the Grand Budapest Hotel trailer as a test
- scenedetect
- used to create an excel document of the start and end time clips from main trailer
- used to split trailer into the previously determined clips
- modified a python code to split clips into frames
- colorific
- to find dominant colors from frames
- sentence on 3/4 presentation
- technical aspect of splitting the trailer/movie into clips and then selecting frames
- using color theory to link colors with emotions
- my plan is to write some code in the future to analyze colors from colorific and determine if a color and then an emotion using similar tables to those from my previous research
- ex. #8b6924 -> yellow/gold -> luxury; #22283c -> navy -> consumption, nobility, dignity, etc
Week of 2/15/19
Goal:
- Find 5 films that show case different color grading, emotion and music
- Essentia (for music/audio analysis)
- Color analysis in film
- Emotion analysis/character finding
Results:
- films with variety of color grading, emotion, music
- In the Mood for Love (2000)
- spikes of saturation
- emotional/romantic effect without being "in your face"
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
- soft/relaxed pastel colors
- unique expression
- Vertigo (1985)
- complementary colors
- use of red and green
- red = caution, female lead
- green = envy, male lead
- even the lack of colors has a strong effect leaving the viewer feeling empty
- Sin City (2005)
- selected saturation (old technique, new movie)
- limited palette
- easier to determine emotion from less colors
- In the Mood for Love (2000)
- The Weight of Color
- harmonious designs
- complementary color harmony = colors opposite each other on color wheel
- create a vibrant look
- analogous color harmony = colors beside each other on color wheel
- serene and comfortable designs
- found in nature
- harmonious and pleasing to the eye
- need (1) to dominate, (1) for support, and (1) for an accent
- traidic color harmony = colors evenly spaced out around color wheel
- (1) dominant color, (2) accents
- split complementary color harmony = variation of complementary color harmony
- (1) base color, (2) adjacent to complementary color
- strong visual contrast like complementary color harmony but less tension
- tetradic color harmony = 4 colors with 2 complementary pairs
- harmony of rich colors
- (1) dominant color and (3) to balance warm and cool colors
- square color harmony = similar to tetradic color harmony but all colors are evenly spaced
- complementary color harmony = colors opposite each other on color wheel
- harmonious designs
Week of 2/8/19
Goal: continue last week's research?
Results:
- The Weight of Color
- symbolic significance of color in Elizabethan era (1558-1603)
- red/crimson = power, fire, importance
- indigo = power, importance, heavenly grace, wealth
- purple = penitence, mourning
- white = purity, virtue
- black = authority, power, death, humility, plainness
- pink = joy, happiness
- blue = servitude
- orange = courage
- brown - humility, poverty
- grey = mourning, repentance, penance
- green = renewal of life
- yellow = renewal, hope, envy, greed, treachery
- gold = divinity, majesty, wealth
- could determine time period when movie was made/set and identify colors and appropriate meanings
- Robert Plutchik's emotion wheel
- symbolic significance of color in Elizabethan era (1558-1603)
- color scripting = using a "guide/pathway" through the story connecting color transitions and moods
- controls the mood of story and arranges specific sequences
- Simultaneous Facial Feature Tracking and Facial Expression Recognition
- three levels to facial activities
- bottom level = feature points around each facial component detail face shape info
- middle level = using a facial action coding system, define contractions of muscle sets
- top level = representing global facial muscle movements and emotional states
- "unified probabilistic framework based on dynamic Bayesian network"
- three levels to facial activities
- Blended Emotion in-the-Wild: Multi-label Facial Expression Recognition Using Crowdsourced Annotations and Deep Locality Feature Learning
- facial expressions in daily life = multiple/co-occurring mental states
- a study to identify multi-labeled expressions
- using the emotions: surprise, fear, disgust, joy, sadness, anger
- options so far:
- define a color script for each movie / genre to dictate specifics on mood and color
- create tables of color significance based on time period
- connect facial recognition (either basic or multi-labeled emotions ) - mood - colors
- identify coloration processes in film and connect that to emotion
Week of 2/1/19
Goal: research color theory with respect to emotions in film
Results:
- Kevin Brownlow on Film Color
- 2014 interview with "giant" among film historians + preservationists
- importance of color in silent films
- red used for shock value
- important in context with other colors used
- less its used = the more impact
- processes
- tinting + toning = using color film or immersing b&w film in a dye to color light areas (tinting) and using chemically treated film emulsion to color dark areas (toning)
- Prizma color = using discs with filters over camera's film to give pulsating effect with vivid colors
- Handschiegl = artificially adding color to selected areas
- Distinct effects of contrast and color on subjective rating of fearfulness
- how contrast and color influences emotional perception
- contrast informs of "dangerous situation"
- experiment where images are converted to grayscale and then into 2 versions (high and low contrast)
- results = high contrast causes larger levels of fearfulness than low contrast
- how contrast and color influences emotional perception
- Game Character's Active Facial Color Engine based on the Theory of Emotion-Color Association
- in relation to video game characters
- 8 primary emotions(happiness, accommodation, fear, amazement, sadness, hate, anger, anticipation) and 3 primary colors
- primary emotion properties
- degree of intensity
- similarities
- words -> emotion/behavior
- emotional impacts of colors
- temperature
- gravity
- strong and weak
- hard and soft
- active and calm
- brightness and low saturation = soft feeling
- dimness and high saturation = hard feeling
- weak contrast and saturation = calmness
- stronger contrast and saturation = activeness
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