Reddit reviews If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die: The Power of Color in Visual Storytelling

> He also doesn't seem happy to see them bonding, but somehow troubled

[Ep 02] The very last scene before that is Abel teaching OA how to climb a tree, seemingly very bonding. In the scene when they arrive at their house (before the tree climbing), Abel is the one playing with OA and making jokes, making her laugh.

> What does the purple fluid do?

[Ep 02] The purple color appears in almost the entire episode. It's practically omnipresent, with the authors practically forcing the color into the viewer. Just let me remind you that the purple color, at least in movies, has very specific symbolism: death. And its use in the episode is very interesting.

It starts with Nina and her colleagues in the school playing with the snakes. They are all dressed in purple shirts. Her teacher is using a purple cardigan. Then she talks to her father in the phone. Later she receives the news that his father is dead. She then leaves the school in a purple coat. After a couple scenes, the Johnson couple arrives at Nina's aunt house, Nancy is wearing purple. Nancy then wanders the house and finds a purple russian doll. When Nancy finds Nina with the baby in the attic, Nina is wearing purple pants. A couple more scenes in, Nina arrives with the Johnson couple at their house and she's wearing a different purple coat. Couple scenes later, while Prairie is learning braille, Nancy is wearing a purple shirt, there are purple toys and there are even colored toys, two of the pieces nearer Prairie are red and blue, the two primary colors used to combine into purple. Then comes the enigmatic scene where Abel brings a purple colored fluid in a tray, and he looks very concerned. The next scene is Abel filming Prairie sleepwalking, there are very small details in purple around the room and no one is wearing purple. Next is the Johnson couple talking to the psychiatrist, and guess who's wearing purple this time: Abel. In this scene, nothing really notorious is purple besides Abel's clothes. Then we find out that Prairie is listening behind the door, wearing purple again. After that doctor visit, the Johnson couple decides to medicate Prairie, the first scene in which we see that is the next one, when Prairie is taking a bath and Nancy is helping her, when Prairie has a moment when she remembers the drowning incident and gets upset, Nancy gives her a pill. Nancy wears a purple-ish robe and with purple ribbon. That's when we learn about the effects of the medication on Prairie, she gets dull and numb, and in the next scene, where they are taking a picture together, the whole view is totally immersed in purple-ish tones. A couple scenes later, fast forwarded to Prairie's second premonition around her 21st birthday and still taking medicines, everything is still pretty much purple. Then we get to the present time, OA is explaining to the group the effects of the medicines and her premonitions still happening, we see BBA wearing a purple scarf. Then it cuts to Prairie in New York, disembarking the ferry and oh my god if I've ever seen so much people wearing purple in a single shot before (1, 2, 3, 4). Prairie leaves the statue and goes to the subway station, two females pass behind her in the shot, wearing purple coats. We're back to present, OA telling her story, everyone leaves, then it cuts to the Johnson couple in bed, talking, when Nancy stands up and goes to the window and sees OA coming back, there's a purple appliance (clock, maybe?) at the bed side. They meet at the kitchen and are discussing her walks, there are some "welcome back" presents on the table along with some balloons, the one that reads "home" is purple. Later, the kids listeners to OA's story are researching, checking facts on the internet, they find a photo of the bridge where she had the accident in Russia, and someone annotates "It's from 1995" in the picture file, using which color? Right, purple. The French reads the messages with the pictures in his phone and walks away, in the background, there's a lot of purple. The school's official colors seem to have purple in it, and there's a lot of it all around. A few scenes pass, OA's back telling how she met Hap. The very first glimpse we get of him, he's wearing purple a purple scarf. When we finally see his face, there's purple everywhere. The whole sequence when they are talking in the subway, it's screaming purple with people wearing purple pieces walking around them, purple lights in the background, purple painted walls, etc. When they are talking in the restaurant, and Hap gives Prairie the equipment to hear heartbeats, she identifies a boy by the heartbeat rate, the boy is wearing a purple tie.

After that, they travel by airplane and arrive at Hap's. Besides the purple clothing pieces in Prairie's shirt and Hap's scarf, we don't see purple anymore. His house is filled with a dark brown wood and dark decoration. The cellar is grayish but has the bright greens of the plants and white lights. We get a new glimpse of purple when Prairie is panicking after discovering she's trapped and we get a shot of her feet stumbling into the running water, she wears purple socks. But as soon as she is alone with him, traveling, then in his house, it's interesting the abrupt break of purple appearances, specially after being hammered with purple the whole episode.

Try [this] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Purple-Someones-Gonna-Die/dp/0240806883/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427827684&sr=1-3&keywords=colour+theory+film) out - its about the psychology of colour, so how you can use colour to help the narrative. Some classic examples are the use of green and red in Vertigo and the use of red in Don't Look Now.

I would focus on the importance of what your company does to helping movies do what they do. If you are some part of the creative production process, focus on why your little part contributes greatly to telling the narrative or conveying meaning symbolically. E.g. Let's say that you are basically the colorist, i.e. you treat the film to give it color cast, to adjust the colors as the direct sees fit. Then I would focus on the importance of color in telling a narrative. What the meaning of red or blue objects have had in different kids of film. (So in this example, this book would be a resource).

If you work outside of the creative process, like in distribution or promotion, you should focus more on the importance of movies as a cultural dominant, the role of movies as the primary means of dispersing ideological narratives, of the role of movies in homogenizing values across diverse cultural groups, etc. How do you communicate the importance of the film to an audience without showing them the film? What images or slogan's best convey the film's semiotic weight to that audience? Plenty on this subject too.

The rest of the things you mention are so complex that in an hour the best you'll achieve is a high level (and useless) gloss, or you'll put people who aren't already interested to sleep.

"If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die.

If it's purple, someone's gonna die

https://www.amazon.com/Its-Purple-Someones-Gonna-Die/dp/0240806883 Check out this book, it's a super cool resource on colors and their meanings in cultures through the world.

I had a textbook in college called If It's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die.

I'm gonna go on a huge limb and say that a bunch of characters are going to die this season.