- My personal color preferences.
- The tone of the movie.

The dark tone of the movie compelled me to have a dark background on the piece. My personal dark-background preference is almost always brown, and it works well here to invoke Samuel L. Jackson’s rich skin tones.

The pink for Brett seems like a natural choice that many people would tend towards – he’s a guy who is being stripped of his manhood by another man. Pink seems a natural response.

And then the light tan is there for contrast since the initial critique mentioned that the pink stood out more than the gold I used for Samuel L.’s lines.

The red again is a natural choice to invoke violence, blood, rage. Maybe predictable, but isn’t always bad.

Nobody else used a similar color scheme. Not sure if this is significant or not.

You could mark it up to co-incidence, or, if you’d seen it before, you straight copied the movie, or it was a subconscious influence, or that the scene invokes those colors. Now I know you didn’t straight copy it – that’s just not you. I’d like to think it’s the last option, b/c that’s the most interesting. Are you reviewing these in class, b/c I’d like to know if anyone else came up with similar schemes.

Our exercise was meant more as a means of familiarizing people with InDesign than interpreting the message, but I agree that the first PDF has better pacing with regard to the movie’s pace and tone.

Something not apparent in PDFs is that the project was setup to be spreads as well, so it would fold in the middle which plays more of a role in the revised version.

Same project, in motion

My two cents: the original is better b/c it’s closer to capturing the pace of the scene.