I took a random shot and color graded it using Premiere Pro. The first one has a cold tone, which goes with our idea of sci-fi as it is the common tone that’s used in the genre. I color graded the second one into a pink-lilac tone as I attempted to make it look dreamy. I was thinking of the color grading in Black Mirror’s ‘Nosedive’, the whole episode has the main color of pink and almost all the shots with a pink hue. It works very well to portray a good, relaxing mood but can also contradicts the depressing mood of the character. The last one was color graded into black and white, I’ve always had a thing for black and white films so I simply wanted to see what it’d look like if I ever did a black and white film (it’d be bomb).
In general, the cold toned style is more suitable for our film as it helps achieve the sense of isolation/loneliness of the A.I.’s journey. But we will definitely play around with our footages and explore more when we get into post-production.