Interviews

Interview Questions:

1. How do the colors of a school affect how students apply themselves academically?
2. What colors have what affect? (which do you feel are the most prominent?)
3. Do you think the vibrant colors of my school are used to distract students from the fact that school is an institution such as a prison?
4. Do you think the colors of a school also have an affect on student's personalities and how they act towards their peers? If so, how?
5. Do you think the colors of a school set the mood? If so, how?

Answers:

My own:
1. I feel that when the colors of a school are bright and vibrant, students are more willing to learn because they enter an environment with a more positive feeling. Our society often associates light colors with happiness and peace whereas darker colors are identified with anger, evil and sadness so if the wrong colors were used to color a school, they could have negative affects on the student's quality of work.
2. Yellow is a very positive color. It is the color of the sun which brings life to everything we know. When thought of, yellow usually brings happiness with it directly related to light. Black is a very negative color it brings sadness to many people because it generally accompanies death and with death comes a lot of unhappiness. But in terms of a school appropriate color that I feel gives off a negative feeling is maybe brown or beige or other bland colors such like my history classroom. It is not unusually common when students get bored, sleepy or lazy when surrounded by such plain base colors. If my history classroom were to have tables and less interactive/ interesting discussions, I would almost guarantee that at least three people would be asleep for the duration of the class.
3. No, I do not think the vibrant colors of my school are used to distract us from anything. School may seem like a jail at times because of the way it is structure with a higher authoritative figure that controls everything with two lower branches of commanding officers that control classrooms and patrol hallways and the students' feeling of obligation to attend school to be able to be successful in the future but in the end, it is a safe environment for children's brains to develop and learn new skills in order to succeed. The vibrant colors may be the school's attempt to provoke creativity and productivity within the school, bright colors will always be better than plain or dark colors. It also helps when students can enjoy multiple different environment throughout the day by having the classrooms painted different colors.
4. Yes, I do think the colors of a school can affect ones personality and action towards peers because just like how it can affect our productivity, the sight of colors can also bring color to people's eyes and can directly change how they act.
5. Yes, colors can affect people's moods just like they can affect our work ethics and personalities. When we see colors we immediately associate them with how our society portrayed them to us therefore our brains create that emotion within us.

Danielle (sister in law):
1. Brighter the more awake, more alert. Dark the kids tend to get sleepy.
2. Positive Colors - Light Green, Yellow, Orange. Negative Colors- Black, Brown, Dark Blue
3. NO!!! I don't believe schools are like prisons. School is a great place where children can learn and express themselves, kids can be creative and are able to explore their ideas. I don't think vibrant colors distracts students, colors bring life to schools.
4. No I don't think colors of schools influence students personalities or there relationships with there peers. I feel the colors can affect the mood of a student.
5. Yes, I believe colors of the school affect the mood of students. Dark colors bring a very sad mood. Bright colors bring a very happy, exciting environment for students.

Wei (brother):
1. The color of the school does not matter.
2. The color black is dark. Yellow - life and refreshing. Red reminds me of fire and speed. White is very plain and boring but on the other hand relaxing. Blue - reminds of the coral reef.
3. It might because color will sell a product. Color covers a lot of what people don't want to see. Like the colors of a car.
4. Color can affect the mood of people. Like I described in question two, it can bring out positive or negative personalities depending on the color.
5. Yes it can. Colors have a huge impact on people's mood.

Stranger #1:

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