The role of polychromatization on television and in film as a link between viewer and creative personality

 

Any person is always, at least to some extent, in contact with the culture of the social environment, in

which she lives. In the cultural environment, there are deep factors of influence, which expand or

reduce the field of opportunities of the person. Whatever a person creates at present depends on what

has been created earlier. Television and film serve as most vivid examples of an increase in such

connection between viewers and creative persons.

Television is a huge cultural machine, which reveals itself as a very important force of society.

In information about events, the foreground task is that of obtaining the most authentic, realistic image

of an object, not deformed by light effects and complex installation. According to this task, color on

television should reflect reality.

Today on television polychromy is used to differentiate viewers. For example, bright

polychromatic programs are targeted either at children and teenagers and have a cognitive-entertaining

character or at a very wide audience and have an entertaining-informational character. Muffled tones,

few colors or even achromatism can be observed in programs with a narrow audience, which have a

cognitive character and form a sense of the beautiful.

There is an opinion that the more colorful things a person sees, the less attention she pays to

color. In the acting film, black-and-white plastics can create a corresponding independent art effect.

 

Probably, it is not coincidental that today there is an increased interest in the so-called .color film.,

where in the frame there prevails only one, background, color. This technique is not a discovery of our

days. The effect of .color film. was used even by Sergei Eisenstein in the second part of his film

"Ivan the Terrible".

 

 





In fact, .color film. is a return to the monochromatism of the black-and-white imagery, but at

a higher level. In this case, the color gets selected by the author in advance and enters directly into the

structure of the cinematic image. In this sense, of interest is Andrzej Wajda's film "Brzezina".

 

There is a surprising, by its dramatic nature, blue background color as a symbol of the inevitability of

death of one of the characters, sick with tuberculosis.

Many modern films are based on contrast between the polychromatism and achromatism. For

example, the film "Pleasantville"  (USA, 1997) is constructed on such contrast, an ideal black-and-

white television city of the 1960.s turns into a multi-color city of the 1990.s.

 



Thus, creative activity of a person is embodied in various ways of applying

polychromatization on television and in film. To each viewer, today.s culture appears as a basically

casual, mosaic system. Polychromatic phenomena play a system-defining, connecting role in the

culture. The role of a creative person consists in separating trivial elements from the surrounding

world and subsequently giving them a new form, using them to create an original mosaic, which then,

via media channels, will be included in a cumulative culture of the society and will become a basis for the subsequent processes of creativity.

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