Black and White?

Colour films were introduced in the 1930's/1940's, however they were very expensive to produce , leading most production companies unable to afford to create these colour films; this is why a lot of films continued to be created in black and white until a lot later. Black and white gives a sense of originality to the audience, it is fact that they also make the audience feel slightly at ease. Black and white films are also knows for creating tension for the audience.    

A famous modern film, created in 2012 called Tabu, was created in black and white.

This film was directed by the famous Miguel, the film is set in 1930's for part of the film and the 1960's for the other. It is typically expected that it would be created in black and white. The film begins loud, with full sound, but soon degrades from this into silence. This leads us to believe that creating a film in black and white allows us to completely change our storyline and change the mood that is represented to the audience.



We have been looking into changing our opening sequence and making it black and white. However it has got to the stage where even with our research, we were still unsure about changing the colour balance of our opening to make it black and white. We do not want our opening sequence to appear as if it is a film noir. We want to make it clear that our opening sequence is partially a psychological thriller and an action thriller. Although from our research we have learned that as a part of the psychological thriller, it is common to see these thriller changed to black and white, however or research on action thrillers shows differently.