[pure-silver] Re: not so pure silver

DEAR SHANNON,
        One film that uses the transition from B&W to color and back to good
effect is Wim Wender's WINGS OF DESIRE.  It is a story of angels interacting
with humans.  The angels' world is seen in B&W and the human's in color.
Not jarring at all and a good way of letting you know from who's POV the
scene is being shown.  
                CHEERS!
                        BOB

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> Richard-
> How do you feel about "spot color"? There is a war movie in black & 
> white (I'm thinking "Schindler's List"?) where there is a scene of a 
> little girl walking down the street wearing a red coat. That red coat 
> is the only color in the film.
> I relate this back to the group's topic by means of portraits with 
> spot color; example a subject holding a flower, all in B&W with the 
> flower in color. Personally, I think this technique can be easily 
> overdone. I've seen senior portraits where only the eyes were in color 
> or a prop was in color.
> Ken Hart

I was thinking that one way of dealing with the color negatives and 
positives would be to desaturate them a lot, leaving only a hint of 
color, and print them digitally.  This would be sort of like spot 
color.

The movies that I cited were sort of documentaries:  Shine a Light was 
about the Rolling Stones, and the concert part was in color whereas the 
backstage stuff about the making of the documentary was in black and 
white.  I'm Not There was a pseudo -documentary about Bob Dylan, and it 
alternated color and black and white as if it were a real documentary. 
The other example of that was Chicago 10, where not only did they have 
color and black and white documentary footage; they also had animation! 
  All mixed up together!  The other night I saw a documentary about 
Fellini that also had both black and white and color. Once can 
understand why a person assembling a documentary film might use both 
black and white and color footage.  So, if you see your project as 
documentary, it might be valid to use both.

The Holga pans have some of the characteristics of film, people have 
said.  If you can see three frames, they were shot sequentially, left 
to right.  It tells a little story:  this happened, then this, then 
this.  So you could make a case that they are sort of proto-cinematic.

--shannon

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