Colour and Poetics

Nichols explains the process of creating tone and mood with colour and spatial timing. This is extremely important when considering how to spill the story to teh audience. So far I have been working on poeticx visuals and introducing colour for particular moods, though I feel there should be more emphasis to allow the tone for each scene to be set relying on colour.

Nichols said ' The historical footage, freeze frames, slow motion, tinted images, selective moments of colour, occasional titles to identify time and place,  voices that recite diary entries, and haunting music builds tone and mood far more than  they explain the war or describe its course of action. (2001 p. 105)

 

I think this fits well with the aim of this documentary. There is no desire to inflict views, merely represent ideas.