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What are the
minimun amount of colors
needed to set a mood?
To Start,
Creating a mood doesn't have to require anything elaborate. In fact, according to WOLFCROW, many great films follow the three color rule to add to their storytelling process.
So, what is the three color rule???

- It's when you have three important colors in your frame (or area) that set the mood of the scene you want to capture.

- Within this scene, you have a primary color, a secondary color, & an accent color. These can show up in any area in a scene.
Take the three colors in the background. The orangey-yellow, the white, & the brown-beige color. You wouldn't think it, but using only these three colors, there are at least three moods you can set with them.
Now, lets talk about the intimate mood!!!
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This isn't an obvious mood to see with these colors but, when I think of intimate settings (romamtic & otherwise) I don't think of red or pink.
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For example, the image on the right.
Instead of overflowing the setting with red roses and anything pink, you see that brown-beige color in the background that makes the environment feel natural. & Whith the white carpet that leads to the couple standing at the other end of the space & the chairs that rest behind them, you get a feeling of how delicate that moment is. At the same time, there's that orangish-yellow color illuminating from the candles that provides a nice little accent to the scene.

*Now, of course there are other colors in the picture but, the ones that I highlighted are the ones that really matter & make that moment so intimate.*

If it costs you your peace, it's too expensive!!!

Trying to set a relaxing, peaceful mood with these colors can happen naturally everyday. All you need is sunlight! Golden hour is one of the best times to get these exact colors but, any sunlight would do.

For example, this photo I took in New Haven, CT.
Normally, people don't think of cities as peaceful places but, with the sunlight glistening off of the brown-beige buildings & the cloudy-white sky leading out into the horizen, there isn't a more peaceful image of this city during the pandemic.

Autumn is the mosaic of seasons!!!

With all of the colors that Fall brings, its not hard to see how these three can make a home feel like the season is indoors.

The aesthetic of this image itself screams autumn, but if you switched the colors & everything became blue, grey, & white, it would feel less like fall & a lot like winter!

So, regardless of what feelings you are trying to convey, the three color rule is an interesting way to go & keep things simple yet.