What is Analogous Colors

This chapter aims to analyze the cinematography within “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, by examining color palette of the movie. It investigates the crucial role of the color, contrast, tonal difference, harmony, brightness and shadows in narrative cinema and how purposefully visual compositions are constructed to enhance the cinematic reality by using the method of qualitative content analysis. Cinema has always been accepted as one of the most influential element in the society by its its artistic-aesthetic, narrative-communicative and technical aspects. It is a cognitive storytelling medium, and it enacts increasingly complex relationships between the story and the audience. While cinematic reality is created by using different narrative tools in harmony, the color profiles which has an important role in the overall mood of a film, also has a subtle physical and emotional effect on individuals' perception and behaviour. Therefore, it's always been a crucial element on the cinematic language and the filmmakers have tended to significance to control it.