I decided to use the Rainbow visual assignment to highlight the colors in the Wire. The point was to take clips from a show or movie that highlights the colors of the rainbow and string them together. This has been done before with the “Rainbow Port” post, but I decided to focus on episode 7 because it had a lot of color all over it. Many colors were discussed at the beginning of the episode in the flower shop when figuring out what flowers to buy for D’Angelo’s funeral. The docks have a ton of color, which is where I pulled the orange and red from, but I also wanted to get some colors from the street, which is where I found the green tennis ball and yellow signage. The blue represents the dock workers who always seem to be wearing some shade of blue and I actually had a photo of Nick wearing blue before I saw the scene with all of the dock workers at the house of the injured man.

The coloring in this episode was also juxtaposed with the darkness of the cops clothing, as well as the funeral and graveyard scenes where everyone is wearing black.

Colors are so telling in this show and seem to designate certain aspects to groups or settings and they are definitely something to pay attention to. With how dark the show is, the colors are important as a contrast and would not be provided by Simon if they were not important.

I took screenshots of episode 7 when I found a striking color and eventually had the whole rainbow. I took screenshots and looped them together by taking one large screenshot on my computer screen. I simply uploaded to flickr, twitter and the hub through Known and was ready to go! It’s definitely a new style rainbow with a disturbing twist, but it is nice to pay attention to color in such a dark show.