"Character Color Timeline"- Game of Thrones

This project involved examining how television shows used a color scheme to affect the audience's opinion of certain characters in shows.

I'd wanted to analyze the color's used in the series Game of Thrones, namely those for the character of Jaime Lannister, who goes through a lot of change through the series in the eyes of the audience. Although the timeline only covers the first season, there are a lot of costume changes that seems to work quite well with the emotion of the scenery, whether that corresponds to red making a character appear more aggressive, white making them appear vain, or blue making them appear trustworthy, there's a definite pattern in their color palettes.

 I needed to do two characters and also decided to look at the color scheme of Ser Jorah Mormont in the show, and mapped out both color schemes in an interactive timeline. You can find the timeline below. For the record, it helps to have an understanding of the show so if you haven't seen the first season you might be a bit lost or spoiled to what happens. You've been warned, mate.

I thought I'd focus on those two character because honestly they're just my favorite in the series. I could easily have done any other of the characters that have major appearances; women in particular have a lot of color use to express intent in the show and its easy to categorize what some of the colors mean according to how they are used in conjunction with banners, clothing and scenes.

The costume design is put into such great detail that it does not surprise me in the least that the series has had such renowned success. People want to suspend disbelief in a series and Game of Thrones really does just that in its presentation, and the subconscious opinion of the audience definitely plays into that.

This was really interesting to do and taught me a lot about some of the finer points of costuming. It's something I'd like to pay attention to in my career.