The video essay, by Eastmancolor Revolution, piqued my interest as it seemed closely connected to the first video essay I did a commentary on, “The Color of Fear”. Just like that one, this video essay connects color coding for technicolor film to subsequent generations of filmmaking, this time connecting it to horror films from the Hammer studio. The connection of green with the supernatural is once again brought up, but the color theory tree is expanded, with shades of blue identified as an accent for making green more unnatural, yellow as deceit, red as danger, and purple as nobility. Interestingly, many of the examples that the essay shows have largely black-and-white backgrounds with focus points or characters that have vibrant coloring, almost harkening back to the days of technicolor on black-and-white film and tinting the film.

The format of the video essay is a textless montage of clips with text overlain, and otherwise doesn’t do much to alter the media itself. In some ways this text can feel oversimplistic for the medium, as it is positioned often as one cluster without any significant graphic creativity. This is not helped by the fact that it will often pause the media whenever it is shown on screen, literally dragging the viewing experience to a halt. In addition, I do feel that the text over-explains it’s premise and source material, almost like it would be better suited for a written essay.