How Does Bob Peterson Use Color In Inside Out

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Color in Pete Docter and Bob Peterson's *Up* is used to stunning emotional effect; colors are absolutely intense when characters are happy, and colors are deeply muted when characters are depressed or challenged. These contrasts are stark and well defined--one could almost imagine that the five emotions from Pete Docter's *Inside Out* are controlling the color palette of this film. In a similar vein, sound is also used to carefully manipulate emotions. *Up* is timed perfectly with sound; character movement is synchronized to sound in a way that would be extremely difficult to achieve without animation. All this is done to move the audience. Sound and color become subjective in a way, and the audience is drawn into the feelings of the characters they are watching. *Up* takes the well-defined conventions of sound and color and then goes above and beyond to create an emotional experience.
On a fundamental level, the marriage montage in *Up* is meant to make the audience cry. Of course, the montage is more complex than that—the audience really experiences a whirlwind of emotions, from surprise to joy to amusement to sorrow to caution to happiness to hope to absolute despair and then finally ending with melancholy amusement. Right from the beginning, in the church, the warm wood paneling and …show more content…
Since Ellie’s death in the montage, the house has been mostly muted. And the disappointment Carl just caused Russell has cemented the melancholy nature of the house. The start of this scene demonstrates this clearly. When Carl enters the house, it seems like an abandoned ghost house. When Carl enters the main living room, his depression is highlighted by the nearly monochrome colors. The yellows, greens, reds, and browns are almost nowhere to be seen (or, at the very least, extremely faded). It looks and feels isolated, which is precisely how Carl is feeling as well. The two chairs are similarly faded, complementing his
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