Common color associations and movie genres

Question

For others:

My Question got answered, but in a different way. The answer basically is that:

• it wouldn't make much of a difference and
• That "We have (...) standards like Red for love, passion,violence and Blue for calm,serene,corporate etc. Grey for war, Red for drama, Dark green for horror do not really help the user make that association."

Big thank you to Shreyas Tripathy

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I have an app that contains different Movies and so there are different Movie Genres. The user can click on a movie and get more information about it (Description, Details, Actors,...)

What I would like to achieve/do is that if the user opens up the Detail View the Background should slightly change, depending on the genre of the movie (Colors are a strong way to set the mood for something, and if the color matches the association to that genre, that would set a comfortable mood - I guess) (I know there can not be a definite answer, but there must be a common practice):

(Is there a common practice to color a Movie Genre? p.E.: Do Movie Posters follow a common practice, like: Romance Movies mostly are red, Sci-Fi mostly white, War mostly brown,...? Or is there nothing like this and I have to go for own associations?)

p.E Like:

• Action (Blue)
• Adventure (Green)
• Comedy (Yellow)
• Crime & Gangster (Purple)
• Drama (Red)
• Historical (Gold)
• Horror (DarkGreen)
• Musicals (Orange)
• Sci-Fi (Silver)
• War (Grey)
• Western (Brown)

Answer 1

Here's what I feel. Color coding is very good way of setting the mood but overusing it makes the concept lose its purpose. Here's why:

• The idea behind color coding is to set a tone the application/environment/website/etc. You want the user to be able to associate a color with a concept but if there are too many colors, the brain wouldn't want to make those associations as it is too gruesome.

• Standards - We have some standards like Red for love, passion,violence and Blue for calm,serene,corporate etc. However, Grey for war, Red for drama, Dark green for horror aren't that standard or obvious. Hence, they do not really help the user make that association.

Should you do it? That would be up to you now because I feel like it won't have the utility you want it to have but maybe you can use it as a feature while pitching your product.