The Colors of Stanley Kubrick - Color Theory from The Shining to 2001: A Space Odyssey and More
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00:00 Kubrick's Color Psychology
01:07 Color in Mise-en-Scene
02:00 RED - The Shining
02:42 ORANGE - Full Metal Jacket
03:25 YELLOW - Eyes Wide Shut
04:19 GREEN - 2001: A Space Odyssey
05:15 BLUE - Full Metal Jacket
06:05 PURPLE - Eyes Wide Shut
06:47 WHITE - A Clockwork Orange
07:38 How to Apply Color Theory
08:31 Next Ep: The Mise-en-Scene of Tim Burton
Mise en scene includes a number of different elements but perhaps none have such a direct and powerful impact on the overall effect of a shot than color. Color in film is an essential tool in visual storytelling and if there’s one filmmaker who understands this, it’s Stanley Kubrick. 2001 A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and The Shining are all visual feasts with color becoming the main course.
In this video essay, we’ll traverse Stanley Kubrick’s color palette across the color wheel. Once you see how much attention Kubrick gives to the colors in his mise en scene, you’ll see that the role it plays cannot be understated. Think of the overwhelming green in Full Metal Jacket, or the yellow Christmas lights in Eyes Wide Shut, or even the pronounced reds in Barry Lyndon. It becomes clear that each film’s color palette plays a huge role in the overall mise en scene.
In visual storytelling and mise en scene, we can find color in four distinct areas: sets & locations, props, costume/hair/makeup, and lighting. In Stanley Kubrick movies, we can find the entire color wheel represented in each of those elements of mise en scene. As you approach color theory and color psychology in your own work, remember the lessons of filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick.
There’s a reason we’re still obsessing over Stanley Kubrick movies decades later - his control of mise en scene, especially color palettes, is without equal.
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“White Wall” - Snowman
“Second Waltz” (Theme from Eyes Wide Shut) - Dmitri Shostakovich
Red Section: “Masked Ball” - Jocelyn Pook
Orange Section: Seals & Crofts - "Sweet Green"
Yellow Section: Bat for Lashes - “What’s A Girl To Do”
Green Section: “Mandy Love Theme” - Jóhann Jóhannsson
Blue Section: “The Blue Danube Waltz” - Johann Strauss II
Purple Section: “Forever Dilating Eye” - Sinoia Caves
White Section: “A” - Snowman
Outro: “Symphony 9, Op. 125” - Beethoven
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00:00 Kubrick's Color Psychology
01:07 Color in Mise-en-Scene
02:00 RED - The Shining
02:42 ORANGE - Full Metal Jacket
03:25 YELLOW - Eyes Wide Shut
04:19 GREEN - 2001: A Space Odyssey
05:15 BLUE - Full Metal Jacket
06:05 PURPLE - Eyes Wide Shut
06:47 WHITE - A Clockwork Orange
07:38 How to Apply Color Theory
08:31 Next Ep: The Mise-en-Scene of Tim Burton
Why you horizontally flipped the image of Stanley Kubrick on the thumbnail?
My mind is blown! Gotta love the incredible Kubrick. Thanks for the color breakdown!!
Cheers!
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and white.. 🤔 Colours of each chakra!
The crown can be violet or white.
Root = Red
Sacral = Orange
Solar plexus = yellow
Heart = Green
Throat = Blue
Pineal gland = Purple
Crown = violet/white..
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Feel free to just focus on Kubrick forever.
hahaha! Yeah it really seems they've found their golden ticket. Either him or Tarantino. I am excited to hear the Tim Burton set design video
I agree!
Ik right lol he’s the goat
It's tempting honestly
Paul Thomas Anderson
Danny Boyle
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You know it's going to be a good week when you wake up to a new Studio Binder video AND it's about Kubrick! 😀😁 Nicely done. 👍💪
New vid every week!
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Barry Lyndon is an amazing movie and deserves more love.
Another great achievement in Kubrick's filmography for sure
This is so well edited omg
We love our editors :)
The color used in Eyes Wide Shut- particularly in its use of accent lighting- is used consciously to reference other moments in the film. When I saw 'Vertigo' in a theatre a few years ago, I was surprised at how its own 'color-coding' reminded me of EWS.
Both films used color to great effect 👌
Those reds and greens in the hotel scenes must have been incredible in the theatre.
Y’all actually starting to make more kubrick videos, i love it!!
He's the best!
Stanley kubrick is the GOAT! His films, no matter how many times, always make me feel like there is something more. RIP you beast!
Studio binder is the reason for my continuous love towards cinema. You guys are the best.
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Nowadays directors just throw in blue and orange and call it a day.
An excellent use of color is in “dr strange love”
I loved its color palette
@@StudioBinder Although Dr Strangelove was black and white, Stanley Kubrick wanted the war table or something green to give the actors a feeling that they are playing poker deciding the fate of the world.
Here's the proof: www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=m.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/trivia&ved=2ahUKEwin_r6E8fvrAhUXc3AKHRMGDlMQFjAAegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw3zOT3_91To_pjFTRjZTnZA
@Cheryl Graham I don't know much about it, but I remembered about the green table trivia from this humorous video from Joblo:
th-cam.com/video/DsPL_ByPXpM/w-d-xo.html
Every one of these episodes is so good. Can't wait for the next one!
On their way!
The music from Eyes Wide Shut instantly gives me goosebumps every time. The music from the Masked Ball is the most haunting piece of music I know. And that movie is a masterpiece!
Whoever edited this video to match Kubrick's work to the music perfectly deserves a raise.
The Color breakdown is absolutely spot on!!
Love it!
Going to look forward for the next episode
Very interesting for finding Colors are connected with sine emotions of the scene in his film.
Thank u for making video of Kubrick(most favorite director) for two weeks in a row.
Glad you liked it!
I love everything about this. Colour is my favourite element in film and Kubrick one of my favourite directors. Beautiful video.
As a physicist obsessed with light, and also a person that appreciates Kubrick's social commentary through film, this is an incredibly
well edited to-the-point analysis. Green is most important, since humans are energetically biased to this color.
Excellent video, truly respect the color transitions and editing!
Amazing! Thank you so much for sharing. I was searching for this.
Using the music called The Blue Danube in the background when talking about the colour blue is very clever!
As someone who did go to film school, I think im learning more from StudioBinder than 4 years in film school. I now teach high school video production classes, and I REALLY wish I could show these videos 😭 15-30 seconds cut and I could probably get away with it. I watched Julie Taymor's Titus in a high school class in 2000, which would not pass today (nor then, really!). That is another beautiful use of color in film.
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We like the free education format that is TH-cam and our blog haha
Are you ok with your vids being played, in part or full, credited/linked, in other peoples' classes?
Wtf 🤩😂🤣🤣🤣🤯...
Again
I just watched Eyes Wide shut
Nd the notification hit😱...
I think sir Kubrick became a STARCHILD nd watching Everything🤙🔥
Abhi Deshmukh that just proves he faked the moon landing
@@totallybored5526 we dont know that certainly...
Haha he's blowing our minds to this day
Wonderful video! I love how you explain Kubrick's work, thank you!
Glad you liked it!
I get more dopamine watching 100mins studio binder's videos than watching a single film. (doesn't matter whose film it is.) Love your videos so much.
Thanks for the comment! We'll keep cranking them out :)
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I love your videos and especially how you emphasize on it through your choice of music. Really loved the choice of background music/songs you picked for this video. May I know what they were 🙏
Makeup and Vanity Set - "Amber"
@ 1:07 Snowman - “White Wall”
@ 1:36 “Second Waltz” (Theme from Eyes Wide Shut) composed by Dmitri Shostakovich
Red Section: Jocelyn Pook - “Masked Ball”
Orange Section: Seals & Crofts - "Sweet Green"
Yellow Section: Bat for Lashes - “What’s A Girl To Do”
Green Section: “Mandy Love Theme” composed by Jóhann Jóhannsson
Blue Section: “The Blue Danube Waltz” composed by Johann Strauss II
Purple Section: “Forever Dilating Eye” - Sinoia Caves
White Section: Snowman - “A”
@7:38/Outro “Symphony 9, Op. 125” composed by Beethoven
Since the video about tone of colour in movies, I knew you knew your stuff, magnificent work!
Glad you're liking the content!
We need to see a Christopher Nolan directing style we saw Fincher, Kubrick, shamalan, and villnueve and I think Nolan is good
Yeah! But we also need Kubrick more🙏.
We def need a nolan dir style
Yeah a Nolan one is must
th-cam.com/video/zZJi_78XUVg/w-d-xo.html Our director's chair video on Nolan's directing and writing
There is no one director in this world of cinema, to compare with Stanley Kubrick.
Thank you! This is very helpful and educational video. Keep it going, guys. I appreciate a lot.
More coming every week!
Loving the prevalence of Eyes Wide Shut music in the beginning!
Cheers!
Outstanding video, wonderful study! Thank you so much!
Cheers!
This channel is the best, I can't believe that we have access to this for free
I wish there were many more colors so I could watch this video all day.
That would be too much editing 😂
Kubrick is hell yeah!!!!
My intro with kubrick was from the Chris Nolan refernece through his surreal epic space saga 2001...after that I wanted to watch every movie of his literally. (I finished all in quarrantine period) And I watched most of 'em. And what I found was his deep dedication and analysis of facts before going into some project which led to it's near perfect execution. (He was not born talented,dull mind but he worked so hard that people now call him born with talent!)
He has transcended genre with movies.. From thrillers ,horrors to historical to war to comdey to romance to sci-fi (only one but that's his legend). No doubt his thoughtful and complex angels were underassesed during his own time. He was, is and always will be The Stanley Kubrick. Thank u for your intellectual gift to the young generation.
Always a great time to watch Kubrick films 😀
@@V.V.V.V.V.V.VMy opinion got too straightforward I think. Thanks for the suggestion😊
I knew about his passion for photography,historic and novella literatures also and chess playing(he was member of state chess organisation I think in late years,
Actually, I literally studied kubrick's journey.....after2001,the first encounter )
He was so much fond of it that he usually depicted in many of his movies like in 2001 playing with Hal... What I am trying to say is during his schoollife he was considered dull and unltalented but his latent potency got disclosed when he started on his own to shone his passion into his own way....
Just trying to depict the hard working capacity of his genius!!!!
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Curious, I don’t recall nearly that much color pop in The Shining (as the contrast and saturation popped in this vid?) Awesome video indeed!
hmm, that is curious 😯
This has been exceptional, and greatly appreciated.
The great thing about kubrick is his knowledge of when and when not to use color.
Agreed, it all comes down to quality of direction
This is great! You should cover how Wong Kar-Wai uses color in his films.
also, in eyes wide shut the 'yellow' lights have a different symbolistic, as when dialogue characters have goes from normality to corrupt the lights behind switch from white bulbs(yellowish) to Christmas lights. check out the party opening, when alice speaks with the Hungarian guy about being married the lights behind go white, when he mention what folklore has to say about marriage, the lights go to Christmas lights which here represents corrupt. if you notice this detail you can actually follow the story further and pinpoint right behind bill Hartford is stops his walk with the two models, when they talk about the 'rainbow ends' light go Christmas, when they mention what a gentleman he is camera moves and their background goes white lights again. awesome. and yes it takes a collective effort to decipher kubrick, thanks you for this video.
Wow 🤩.
Thank you guys
For this colourful video
Hope you had a vivid experience
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That was very colorful! Thanks!
Great stuff. Wish it had been longer though.
Thank you so much. Thanks to you I don’t need to go to film school.
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wow this video is so well done
Great video as always
Sorry it took me a while to watch this video. Anyways as always you never disappoint us on how you explain things in every movie❤👏😊
Watch anytime you please :)
Thank you so much for these videos🙏
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Nice video. Can you please also do something on around aster or safdie bros?
th-cam.com/video/tcleaQ2IGgU/w-d-xo.html How the Safdies, Tarantino, and Kaufman write true stories
I think in the contemporary cinema no one uses colors better than Wes Anderson(he is so formal and his color choice looks so pefect).
There is so much going on with color in Eyes Wide Shut you could make a feature film about it alone.
Look up Rob Ager's video on rainbows and intentional lens flairs used in EWS. Truly amazing work.
every song in this video is too good. thanks for listing them!
Love this video love you all When is next shortlist love
Shotlist episodes are on the last week of every month!
best channel, i can understand every word in english:D
The aesthetic of this video itself!! I mean , wow!!!!!
❤ Doing Kubrick justice
Thank you Studiobinder you're the best.
I wish movies from nowadays would use colours in such a visually interesting manner.
Would be interesting to see a video on Kubricks use of black and shadow.
Brilliant video ❤️
Thanks for watching!
Great video!
@studiobinder Love you 🤟, the soundtracks for colours are awesome.
Thanks! We love our editors :)
The way Kubrick uses each color is very interesting, each color is used in a familiar yet not so common way, they represent something which they are associated with in color theory but is not commonly used.
Great Music use and brilliant final goodbye quote, hah
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thank you for this great video
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I love the music from Panos Cosmatos films in this. Both times my ears perked up.
Amazing content
Thanks!
Loved the use of Jóhann Jóhannssons Mandy score in the video.
I now have an idea for a Kubrick-esque color palette for a film I am writing. Green and red (death and nature; love and anger).
Nice! Happy filming :)
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Great video
Thanks!
I love this.
Good video color is powerful even when making movies I'll remember that.
Yup, it can always be used to great effect
Amazing video
My only complaint is Barry Lyndon scenes were not given much footage in this video😅😅
Since we all agree Barry Lyndon is the most most well photographed film
Kubrick is truly a master filmaker.
There is also a colour: Black
Black helps to focus something like wearing as a black and it used black as a background and place a object or something on it. It helps to focus on that object like the Frank floating in the space
I can't thank u enough for all u taught me
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I have just started watching Kubrick movies....can someone plz tell which is the best order to watch his movies ( I've seen the shining....loved it!)
@@V.V.V.V.V.V.V thank u so much!
Clockwork or Strangelove would be good jump starts.. FMJ or Shining are more pop
If you're planning on watching all of them, I'd say do it from chronological order. See how his ideas developed and reoccurred as he aged and witnessed the historical/cultural events happening around him
DD Lenoir but spartacus is also a masterpiece and you can appreciate kubrick’style on it
@@StudioBinder ok...thank u so much for the reply!! :)
Love those vidéos but there's a little mitstake you did in both épisodes it's "mise en scène" not "scéne". Anyway great job !
Appreciate the feedback, thanks!
Kubrick is my inspiration!
Yasss Tim Burton he’s one of my favourite directors
On its way!
StudioBinder I’m glad to hear that 😀
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Good video as usual. Thanks!
Haven't heard the purple song since watching Beyond The Black Rainbow's trailer.
great piece right?
Best advertisement I've ever seen.
Please do make a video on distinction between the Plot and a Story.
That is an interesting idea 🧐
Would just love is you could do this...😍
Thanks
Cheers!
What's that song called playing in the background? 5:15
Kubrick was an alchemist. He is using the alchemical color system (basically the chakras) but it also includes the 7 metals lead to gold. Gold and yellow represent different things. People would know this if the world was in shape.
Or they're just colours.
The music for orange is the sample for Busta Rhymes Put Ur Hands Where My Eyes Can See
You forgot about Black. I think in Kubrick films it meant the Unknown or the yet Unrevealed.
It's a bit hard to include black because it's achieved more through darkness and shadows than lighting and set design but you're right that it's significant!
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I hope i get vedio explaining different kind of lenses.
what is the music playing when you discuss orange please?
Seals & Crofts - "Sweet Green"
@@StudioBinder thanks boss
There was a video in 2018 that was a superb study of colour in _The Shining._ WB ordered it removed, just that one specific video.
His most dynamic and colorful film is Eyes Wide Shut, especially in 35mm. It doesn't show up on any of the home video releases. Unfortunately.
I would say Guillermo del Toros The shape of water used green to great effect
Agreed!