Colour, Mood & Tone

We would like to show a clear divide in moods throughout the trailer of when Grace and Isaac are happy together to when their relationship faces problems and inevitably deteriorates to the end. One of the main ways we will show this is through colour.

For the beginning of the relationship and therefore the trailer, our shots need to reflect a happier time and we will show this with brightly coloured settings (for example the coloured houses in Brighton and the lanes.) This will also be reflected in the brighter costumes that Grace and Isaac will be wearing at the beginning of the trailer.  Although I really like the colour scheme that director Wes Anderson uses in his films like ‘Moonrise Kingdom’, this would be too bold to replicate in our trailer as later we need to create a more depressing feel and this would be too unrealistic and noticeable to change from this obvious a colour scheme. However, we will be taking influence from this but just creating a more subtle colour scheme.

 

For later scenes in Grace's office etc. we want her to seem really unhappy and bored with her life so we want her shots to look grey and flat to reflect her mood. A lot of this depends on lighting and location, so we will choose a very monochrome office and light it really brightly so it looks flat and ugly.

W.H.