Color Movies

I just discovered Speak Up due to an interesting write up they did on movie posters and their color schemes.

Here is the basis of their post- they looked at the movie posters for the top 5 grossing movies by rating (top 5 NC-17, top 5 R, top 5 PG-13, etc.) and then broke these posters down by colors. What they found, although scientifically problematic was pretty interesting. At the top, with the NC-17 rated movies, they found lots of dark colors and, not surprise here, flesh tones. Moving down the rating slide, they start to get more and more colorful until they hit G with bright posters with lots of colors.

It is a relatively interesting analysis of film posters and ratings. My biggest problem being that most movies have multiple posters. These multiple posters usually employ different color schemes to attract different people to the movies. Regardless though this is a pretty interesting look at the role color plays in relation to rating.