Stylisitc Choice & Colour Palettes

For the film, we want it to have a certain look to it, and by that I mean specifically in the colour area. We feel as though a story which, in a nutshell, consists of a dancer rehearsing while thinking about her life could be a bit bland, especially if every scene simply rolls into the next with little to no thought behind how it looks. We therefore tried to think of ways to separate the rehearsal sections and the flashback sections in the film, and we realised one way that could look particularly effective was by having one section in black and white and the other in colour.

The segments that are her memories will be in black and white, of which has connotations of aging, the past and 'dullness' - all of which relate well, especially with these flashbacks being ones that are meant to be unhappy, or to show that the dancer has had a hard time leading up to now.

This of course left us with the rehearsal segments, of which were to be in colour. However, we didn't want these segments to look any less interesting than the flashbacks, so again we turned to colour and thought of what we could do to truly emphasise the emotions and theme of the scenes, along with deepen the contrast between these parts and the flashbacks. We then came to the conclusion of using blue and purple tones, of which relates well to the melancholy and somber feel we want in those scenes, and will help to emphasise the 'performance' element of the film with artificial lighting. All in all, we wanted to provide a vivid and unique visual experience for the viewer, beyond that which the plot gives.

To anchor in on what kind of colour palette we wanted for the rehearsal scenes, Amelia decided to do some further research and try and find some interesting film palette's online, in order to see if any of them matched the theme we wanted to deliver.

These are some of the palettes we looked at while trying to decide, in the end though, we decided not to use any of these, for various reasons, some were too warm, others were too dull etc. In the end though, we did find one that we liked:

We felt as though this palette would work very well for the rehearsal scenes as it matched the 'vibe', if it were, that we were going for. We wanted a purple/blue palette that had a certain sadness to it, as opposed to coming across as joyful or too bright. Going forward, we will therefore attempt to use this palette with our lighting during filming and after effects during the editing phase.