Mood and Tone

  The mood and tone of the piece is very important to me. I think that in order to engage an audience it is crucial that we provide a mood through the film's style, visual and aural aspects.
  We plan on filming with a Canon 550d DSLR camera as it will deliver greater colouring to the images as well as a heightened effect of depth of field. Following is a list of films that have inspired the choice to use vivid colours and high contrast:

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  Danny Boyle's 'The Beach' is a great example of the kind of colours I would like to take inspiration from for my film. I like the rich tones to the colours and the way that in this frame in particular, although blue is present in the sky, sea and the woman's top, they each stand out. As for creating this style in our piece, most of us will have an impact on making it possible from my 'vision' to Jen's choice of costume and Hannah's filters in post.
  Another example of a Danny Boyle film that represents the colours I'd like to recreate is '127 Hours'. It consists predominantly of golden tones, representative of the sands of the desert and the yellows in the sun and the cliffs. By briefly analysing the visual elements in both these films, I have come to the conclusion that the colours are often reminiscent of the weather and location of the piece. Because our film will take place within the city centre as well as a more 'countryside' location, I think that any colours in the surrounding areas of the filming must be picked up on.

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  More audacious examples of colour in film would be in Vincent Ward's 'What Dreams May Come' and Peter Jackson's 'The Lovely Bones'. Both of these features demonstrate an unrealistic sense of colours as the characters aren't in a 'real world': Heaven in the case of What Dreams May Come and 'The In-between' in The Lovely Bones. I would like to extract the element of 'unrealistic' colour and use it in my film as Lola often sees what she wants to see. Those with Autism often don't like change, and I think it will be interesting if in some of the Point-of-View shots we see something different to the images of her. Her head could see a more colourful and fun world against the grim contrast of the unsaturated colours that really represent the city. This may give the film a bit of a dream-like quality, however, the 10 minute film following on from this could be where she has to wake up and face the real world.


1. http://www.google.com/imgres?q=the+beach+movie&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&sa=N&rls=en&authuser=0&biw=1280&bih=680&tbm=isch&tbnid=OdEOV7dKWLTZeM:&imgrefurl=http://filmlervebiseyler.blogspot.com/2010/12/beach-2000.html&docid=fUiH02G126tBhM&imgurl=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIT6TuKlVR8R8sgZhyphenhyphenUtybRp9shcaSyghXJZX3xqmtlwbDzzXasznB3gQxd4jPHT381fE7p0NiAaESp9VksD3JGBycQuAkaiMyipI7jxxtPVkMwrIHBkvFeS3F0vmNrhKoBtusl6sG4wS0/s1600/The%2525252520Beach.jpg&w=1024&h=768&ei=096DUOa0N8Km0QXT6YGABA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=499&sig=117828630293561111691&page=3&tbnh=144&tbnw=187&start=42&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:26,s:20,i:279&tx=114&ty=68

2. http://www.google.com/imgres?q=what+dreams+may+come+frame&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&sa=N&rls=en&authuser=0&biw=1280&bih=680&tbm=isch&tbnid=SemJoyfFQz-lsM:&imgrefurl=http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/01/08/oscarbation-the-fugly-bones&docid=BW3gNKY2ccIzrM&imgurl=http://corporate.skynet.be/zen/images/dreams.jpg&w=433&h=250&ei=-emDUPipD6ie0QW-ioCQBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=318&vpy=166&dur=751&hovh=170&hovw=296&tx=172&ty=70&sig=117828630293561111691&page=1&tbnh=144&tbnw=258&start=0&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:74

3. http://www.google.com/imgres?q=the+lovely+bones+the+in+between&num=10&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&authuser=0&biw=1280&bih=680&tbm=isch&tbnid=r2C5LRn7aoNkNM:&imgrefurl=http://www.edgeoftheplank.com/2012/03/lovely-bones-film-review.html&docid=-2fY8ZDYb17dEM&imgurl=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOdkOhBY0Lp-9w-pApFG4nP8UE7854FZxEo_huI4zRTMeIqbY-yzgHpx2czh4UBUZHR6B7cio97EY5nu_QN4PKsZ4xSygvhCAL4hncG1mJuYPGEXMrGB7B5xj2eJhKm0Ixv0Cp9Ya6kaLw/s1600/lovely-bones-heaven-660.jpg&w=660&h=340&ei=Q-yDUIWLCbCW0QXrwIGQBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=408&vpy=431&dur=352&hovh=140&hovw=275&tx=162&ty=110&sig=117828630293561111691&sqi=2&page=1&tbnh=135&tbnw=267&start=0&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:9,s:0,i:95