... but hadn't been working on the setting as a character, and somewhere in the back of my mind I'd wanted the setting to be a character and had been failing at creating that.
I don't think there are a whole lotta authors that really bring character to setting. I like to watch the special features of movie DVDs to watch the "making of" portions --- to see how the set designers build environment with lighting, and music, and positioning etc ...
One of my favourite uses of coloring was The Wizard of Oz for obvious reasons. Dorothy's "normal world" was painted in shades of gray...then we move into Oz and *poof!* technicolor!
Unbreakable uses lighting and set color to "announce" a scene with a hero or villain. The subconscious cues are amazing and fantastic to me. You don't realize that there are purple and blue and red lighting until it's pointed out.
Probably a tad tangent to painting the world as a character but perhaps not?
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Date: Fri, Jan. 11th, 2008 11:00 pm (UTC)I don't think there are a whole lotta authors that really bring character to setting. I like to watch the special features of movie DVDs to watch the "making of" portions --- to see how the set designers build environment with lighting, and music, and positioning etc ...
One of my favourite uses of coloring was The Wizard of Oz for obvious reasons. Dorothy's "normal world" was painted in shades of gray...then we move into Oz and *poof!* technicolor!
Unbreakable uses lighting and set color to "announce" a scene with a hero or villain. The subconscious cues are amazing and fantastic to me. You don't realize that there are purple and blue and red lighting until it's pointed out.
Probably a tad tangent to painting the world as a character but perhaps not?