{"id":660,"date":"2013-04-30T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/04\/30\/graphic-designer-breaks-films-down-by-color\/"},"modified":"2013-04-30T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T15:34:00","slug":"graphic-designer-breaks-films-down-by-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/04\/30\/graphic-designer-breaks-films-down-by-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic designer breaks films down by color"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moviesincolor.com\/\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"166\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-5Oyag-yY_RQ\/UX_ScBYw4lI\/AAAAAAAAAkY\/OeuYJz5VtTw\/s400\/jackrabbitslimstwistcontest.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>For those with an interest in film and composition (which probably describes most of our audience), this is the coolest thing you&#8217;ll see all day. Roxy Radulescu, a graphic artist from Los Angeles, started Movies in Color, a blog that <a href=\"http:\/\/moviesincolor.com\/\">breaks iconic film stills down by color<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to showcasing the most prominent and notable colors in each shot, the blog also shows the light and dark tones that make up most of the image. It&#8217;s remarkable to see how some filmmakers and cinematographers work in <a href=\"http:\/\/25.media.tumblr.com\/6902b6b890a90c400c39a795e2808cdb\/tumblr_mlczcaPKmU1s6aghro1_1280.jpg\">almost monochromatic palettes<\/a>, while others use certain colors sparingly to <a href=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/d864b9881997964b946c482026480e32\/tumblr_mkla2kpu2c1s6aghro1_1280.jpg\">highlight different parts of the scene<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Right now there&#8217;s 7 pages of content, plus an index by cinematographer. And since the blog&#8217;s only been around since February, it&#8217;s growing rapidly fast. Bookmark this one for later if you don&#8217;t want to lose a whole afternoon to it.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those with an interest in film and composition (which probably describes most of our audience), this is the coolest thing you&#8217;ll see all day. Roxy Radulescu, a graphic artist from Los Angeles, started Movies in Color, a blog that breaks iconic film stills down by color. In addition to showcasing the most prominent and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}