As I mentioned, this is a very rough cut of my film, and so it won't won't be neccessary to discuss colour correction and stabilization and such here, as I have yet to apply these effects.
In my film, I wanted to evoke a sense of insecurity and loneliness in some scenes. I did this by making sure to film in very cold-looking areas where whites, blues and grays were the strongest colours. Costume design also played a part in this, as I gave Andy a bright white shirt to wear in all his scenes. White is of course one of the crispest, coldest looking colours, and in some scenes, Andy in his shirt blends into the background, particularly the stairwell scene where the walls are white.
Something I could do to vastly increase the sense of coldness in the editing process is by applying colour filters and increasing the brightness or exposure to levels which slightly distort the image. I would have to be careful with this however, as there is a possibility the image may become washed-out and look strange when played on larger screens.
The above image is highlights one of the problems I came across during some of my film shoots. As you can see, the image looks incredibly dark, which under some circumstances would be quite effective, but for this particular scene, it was not. In the scene Andy (The Main Character) passes a new character played by Aimee. Aimee's character is supposed to be a part of the dictatorship that has taken over the city and is overseeing Andy's character moving from his home to a different location.
I wanted to show that Aimee was a part of this dictatorship by having her wear clothes that were different to the clothes worn by other characters in the film. Therefore she wears a very smart blaizer, which contrasts greatly to Andy's and Roxanne's (another character that appears in this scene briefly) plain white shirts.
However, due to the brightness settings of the camera I was using at the time, Aimee can hardly be seen, and what she is wearing cannot really be identified either. This is something I can attempt to fix in editing through adjusting the brightness and contrast and such, but this may cause the image quality to drop a lot, and so I will have to take this into account when deciding what to do with this particular clip.
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