Colour palette

Sci-fi colour palette research

After looking at the typography of sci-fi movie posters I have decided to explore the visual colours that are utilised in the posters. I have sampled the colours used in existing sci-fi movie posters and have produced colour palettes for each poster. After analysing all the poster's palettes I will decide on a set of colours which I will aim to use in my poster. The colours where extracted on illustrator using special tools which allow you to do this.

These posters have the typical classic sci-fi colours and are perfect examples of the colours I should consider in my poster. As you can see sci-fi posters use a wide variety of colours, however they all have a pastel base to them creating a vintage feel. This is because during the era of the posters the colours available to them for print would have been these pastel colours.

After anaylsing the posters I have noticed a few colour schemes that emerge in this classic sci-fi style. one of which is, the title of the movie is often the brightest so colours like yellow and red are used. another scheme is that the typical martian that feature in the posters is often given a pale green or dark purple colour to associate with the stereotypical extra-terrestrial.

Now that I have fully understood the colours used in classic sci-fi movie posters, I have created a colour wheel to illustrate some of the colours I will utilise in my poster.