Hey guys it's Dave here from Creative Path Films and in today's video we're going to be continuing
our series on color theory in a previous video we explored the concept of color contrast through
complementary colors which is the combination of two colors opposite each other on the color
wheel now if you haven't seen it and you'd like to learn more check out the link down below today
we're taking things one step further and you'll learn how to combine three colors together using
what is known as the triadic color scheme foreign before we get started you're going to need your
trusty color wheel which you can download one for free down in the description if you'd like
to put simply a triadic color scheme utilizes three colors that are spaced in equal distance
apart from one another on the color wheel seems simple enough let's put it into practice let's
say you wanted to create a lighting scheme that uses a blue green color like cyan as one of our
three colors if we use cyan as our starting point all you have to do now is look for the other two
colors which sit echoid distance from it on the color wheel which in this instance are yellow
orange and red violet now I chose these three colors because this is the exact combination that
I used when lighting a certain nightclub scene in a feature film idp'd back in May of this year
called girls night out for the club the director wanted to use a lot of RGB lighting and wanted
to lean particularly into Blues cyan fans violets and purples to create the look he wanted so armed
with this brief and a knowledge of color theory I designed different looks for different areas of
the club let's have a look at two scenes where I put a triadic color scheme into practice the
first scene we're going to look at is a scene on the club couches now in this particular location
there was already a Tungsten practical light which sat above each Booth so I decided to use this to
motivate our key light in the scene now because the existing light wasn't very bright nor was
it particularly flattering I replaced it with an aperture amaran 100d along with a light Dome Mini
2 softbox I chose this modifier for two reasons it was small and Compact and stayed out of the
shot in the wide but it also has an internal gel holder included which is super handy to achieve
that warmer tungsten look I gelled the light with a one-half CTO or color temperature orange which
is a very common color Direction gel I also had the camera's white balance sent to 5600 Kelvin
I decided to create the triadic color scheme by using two additional backlights on each side of
the girls the first backlight that we used was this purpley red light that you can see
here this was a fixture that I'd already planned to use throughout the different Club scenes so
it was already established within the location space as one of our prominent Club lights this
light was an aperture amaran 200d which I gelled with the leaf filters 126 or move color effects
gel I covered not only this gel but also several others in a previous video where I showcased the
effects gels from the Lee master location pack so this gives us two out of our three triadic colors
which just leaves the blue green or cyan as our last remaining light for the cyan backlight I used
an aperture amaran p60c with the included softbox and gray grid I set this light to the cyan preset
using the cytuslink app which is 210 degrees and I dialed back the saturation to 66 one of
the really cool things about this location was there was this Mosaic of tiny reflective tiles
that lined the back wall this wall reflected each of our three colored lights creating a really cool
effect almost a patchwork of color which I really liked and that is the final result for our first
example now let's have a look at a different scene also set in the same Club this next scene took
place around a bar table with a dance floor in the background in this scene we used cyan as our
key light and for that we used the same amaran p60c combination that you saw before and it was
keying our girls from the right hand side of frame I also used the same red violet backlight that I
did in the last scene and for this I again used the 200d with the move gel I positioned that in
the back left hand corner of the club space but this time I added a two times fresnel attachment
to give the light a little bit more output and control this leaves our final color in the triadic
color scheme which is of course yellow orange for this we had a few splashes of tungsten light
in the Deep background and those came from some practical lights that were already present in the
location the first practical was this set of fairy lights that was rigged into a hanging pot plant
our second practical was one of those tungsten lanterns that hangs above each of the booths I
also backed these up with a little aperture MC which I positioned in the Deep background and
this just gave a little extra splash of tungsten light onto that back wall which helped give us a
little bit more texture the green lights that you can see were Club fixtures and weren't a
part of the initial design there are a couple of these neon green signs throughout the club and I
could neither turn them off or control them so I just had to go with it so I left them in the
scene as an additional accent color I also added a splash of motivated green light from a four foot
tube that I suspended in the ceiling and this helped to make things feel a little less random
it works in this instance because this shade of yellow green is complementary to our red violet
on the color wheel so having just a hint of this shade of green still works even though it wasn't
intended to be part of the planned color scheme another reason that this kind of works is because
if you ignore the tungsten fixtures what you get is almost a five color analogous scheme which is
why it still feels balanced and harmonious now I did actually use an analogous color scheme in
another part of the film but I'm afraid that's a topic for another video so if you're getting value
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out now of course these color schemes or color codes aren't just restricted to RGB lighting they
applied to production design and costuming as well and they're a great tool to use to make your
images really stand out and feel harmonious and balanced now I hope you enjoyed and got value from
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