Visual Language - Green Lantern The Animated Series

Green Lantern The Animated series changes location every episode, with different alien planets used for the backgrounds.



For the calmer, less hostile environments like the bottom three on the left hand side, the colours are much more muted, and the backgrounds feel a lot softer. You can tell in these that the characters are much more likely to just be exploring or travelling through these locations. On the right had side, the colours are very saturated, helped by the more dramatic lighting made by certain elements of the background giving off their own light. You can tell that these are places where something much more significant will happen.
The Rule of Thirds is used especially where there are clearer subjects on the right hand side; there's a clearer contrast between foreground and background because of it, so that the audience will notice what is happening/who is there before seeing the background