Colour

Colour plays an important role in film; it affects how viewers react to a scene and can immediately suggest to an audience to tone of the scene or can inform them of information about the characters or environment without the need for dialogue.

As per Patti Bellatoni's book, If Its Purple, Someone' s Gunna Die  , we have made colour an important part of our film.

In the scene that takes place in Grindleford, we carefully chose locations for each shot. This was because we wanted to the colour to move from predominantly green, to predominantly orange/ red.
We wanted it to move from an earthy, natural green to a more ominous red colour, perhaps signifying that danger lies ahead.

Into the red room.The red in this room continues nicelty from the red/orange colours that we leave in Grindleford, only more intense. The red light falls upon the animals on the table, bringing up connotations of death and danger,again. We then move to a colour change to green. Unlike the green that we see in Grindleford, the aim of this colour change was to bring a far sinister feeling to the room. Also, as its at the opposite end of the colour spectrum, it brings a huge contrast to the red lighting, making it a jarring and uneasy change. This inturn, hopefully adds to the uneasy feeling the audience get when viewing the scene in this room.

For the scenes in Sheffield, we chose to film these in black and white. The main reason behind this was to emphasize the colours in the other scenes and highlight their importance and otherworldliness.