7:53Why Great Movies use the 60-30-10 Percent Color Rule
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The three squares aren't random colours. They're the brown room, the orange glow and the red dress from the shot, in the amounts the rule names. You can check it against the image and it seems to work, but not why or how.
'Great Movies' borrows the pull of cinema, and '60-30-10' is a named number rule, which sounds like a simple formula filmmakers can learn.
The colour squares are stacked on the dark right side, clear of the actor, so the scene and its palette sit side by side and you can compare them.
When you teach a rule behind a visual style, pick a striking example and put the rule's parts beside it, taken straight from the example. Viewers can check it at a glance and click for the reason.
Pull the rule's parts from the example and show both.
Apply this pattern to your next video.
Bring the reference into a packaging brief, then decide what your title and thumbnail should each communicate.