Directions Unit- Colour Scheme, tone and mood explaination.

During the filming and editing process of my film, I have been carefully studying the overall colour scheme and style of my own film, and trying to come up with a suitable style for each particular scene, in order to evoke a particular set of emotions.
Firstly in the main character's home, I wanted to use a dark, yet warm colour scheme. I hoped this would create a sense of coziness or safety, which is of course the kind of feeling one would expect when being inside their home. I did this by using low level lighting when actually filming the scenes, as well as adding colour filters and more during the editing process. There is an example here:

In contrast to this aforementioned sense of safety I wanted to present, I also wanted to create an atmosphere in other scenes which would make the viewer feel uncomfortable and make it seem as though the area in which the character's congregated would be cold, unsafe and a generally unpleasant place to be. Some examples of ways in which I achieved this include filming in outdoor areas which would cause bright colours in the shots to appear washed out and "dreamy" and also by applying cold colour filters in Final Cut Pro.

It also helped to film in areas where there was a lot of white and light grey back-drops and things to make the area look as sterile and uncomfortable as possible.