The film largely is a consistent field of blue, narrated over with largely describing his life living with AIDS and going blind due to complications, but also long parts of visionary thoughts and the personification of blue.
The most stand out part of Blue is it's lack of moving image, Although this is largely done in representation of Jarmins blindness this film greatly reminded me of the colour representation the burn's used in exe'd out.
The narration is very poignantly colour based, having a large focus on bright, primary colours and deep contrasts, that although it's a flat plain bring forward richer imagery with the narration being detailed but concise in it's actions, droning music.
Blue largely works because of it's name sake and the history of colour blue, largely blue does not strain the eyes when looking at it for extended amounts of time, if it where red or yellow, two very prominent colours within blue, strain might be off-putting. Blue is also a colour that has been noted as a relaxing colour, but also historically it has held many other complex connotations to do with great wealth, prosperity but also sadness.
Universal Blue compared to the red an yellow in the same area of shade it is.
When the eye looks at a simple image or a pattern for an extended amount of time the eye relaxes and stops sending signals to the brain, and so the brain starts so hallucinate to fill in the gaps, letting a person experience a part of their unconscious mind through blue, only being fed audio information.
However what if in Blue changed colours? there are many shades of blue described in Blue, just having the blue change would be a distinctive deviation, compared to the film.
if we where to introduce the entire colour spectrum described in blue shifting to that colour when described that would give much more personification to these colours that are only personified through colour.
This kind of imagery may translate better on page, and ultimately we can understand it almost wordlessly.
Authough the narration is ultimately not always abstract, it is in fact very grounded in it's description of what it happening, but we are seeing much more than what could ultimately be displayed through film itself with the use of flat colour.
Overall i feel like this is a hard concept to translate to image effectively to page, however i think it's very effective in it's message. It minimalistic boldness has a large impact on how we view the image overall and the lack of confrontational imagery leaves the readers to interpret things by themselves.
Bibliography
Blue. 1993. [Film] Derek Jarman. Dir. UK: channel Four Films, Arts Council of Great Britain
Charles Burns, C,B. 2010, X'ed Out. England: Jonathan Cape
Gridley Minima, M. 2007. Blue.[Online]. [9th Feb]. Available from:http://www.h2so4.net/reviews/blue.html
Kyle Kallgren, K.K. 2014. Blue - Brows held high [Online]. [5th Feb]. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoImLuNoqYQ
Wikipedia. 2017. Blue (1993 film). [Online]. [9th Feb]. Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_(1993_film)
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