A Color Scheme Timeline with Scenarios and Art Documents at the Initial Stage of Content Production

Abstract

The color of the screen in video content is an important element in determining the impression of the content. Since there are cases where a process to be examined is provided from the initial stage of production, the overall color scheme is necessary information when producing video content. However, in order to create the materials for making the color scheme of the entire video from the initial stage of production, it is necessary to have a high level of expertise. It is difficult to introduce them into the current production process. In this research, we have developed a color scheme timeline generation method that simulates and visualizes the color scheme of the entire image using scenarios and art materials that are always created in the early stages of movie production. The initial stage of production was further divided into three stages, and a color scheme timeline was generated using information at each of the rough plotting stage of the scenario, the first draft stage, and the background art material creation stage. The color scheme timeline is generated using information from each stage of the art data creation process. Then visualize the color scheme timeline based on the completed video content and compare it to the color scheme timeline generated from the scenario and art material. The results showed that the accuracy of the color scheme varied depending on the amount of information used, but there was no major discrepancy between the color scheme visualized from the completed video content and the timeline generated from the early stages of production. It was confirmed that the entire color scheme can be simulated. The new process using the color scheme timeline proposed in this research enables us to simulate the color scheme from the initial stage of production.