Patti Bellatoni breaks the colours in her theory down to the typical spectrum but talks about the ranges that can be used i.e lustful reds, or angry reds. By reading her book I’ve looked at the different spectrums that I could use and have decided on the different shades to be utilised in A4. Because we have decided just to use cellophane to filter our lights I won’t be able to go out and find the exact shades to what Patti writes about but I will be able to use the cellophane and the levels on the lights to create the atmosphere that we are going for.

Red – Angry/Anxiety reds

– This is a horror film so there is no use for “lustful” or romantic reds so the scene will have to be a clear shade that indues anxiety or fear. This is easy enough as typically darker shades of red are considered more ‘lustful/romic”

Yellow – diffenreces between the yellow of ‘happiness’ and the “obsessive” yellows that are discussed. Brighter yellow tones versus darker yellows. Giving the bathroom a more jaundice vibe will make the bathroom more sickening to look at. Yellow cellophane is probably not going to be used as we can turn the lights to a warmer yellow and use colour grading to darken the tone.

Green – the colour of nature and life vs the colour of greed.

I’m looking to go for a taker shade of green for the scene to make it quite dark, willa has written the lounge room scene to take place with a board game so naturally we went with monopoly to put the green hand in hand with money. more than any other scene I think this will be the most interesting as green tends to work more with shadows than the other colours.

Blue – usually a calming tone so this is easily incorporated with the first and last sense of Thomas in his bedroom. Familiar and non threatening, this is a great juxtaposition of the red bedroom scene that will enter in later in the film. To make sure that the blue doesn’t seem to easy (especially at the start of the film) I’m going to make the lights colder to reflect a more pale blue to try and indicate the “coldness” of the house

Purple – well Patti’s book is called if its purple someone gunna die but also discusses the religious and royal meanings of purple. Regarding our film, I plan on just trying to make it as “unearthly” as possible. The mother is already dead so theres no greater meaning about the characters journey, but rather it’s going to allow us to go really crazy with the kitchen scene and make it a really strange scenario.

The dining room scene I’ve planned out just to be quite washed out and a little grey. Not so much for any meanings, and also because Patti doesn’t particularly write about shades such as grey/white/black but because I want it to be quite a boring set, washed out and flat. I can only think about those mundane boring dinner scenes throughout family dramas to work with and I think it will come out as a nice contrast to the saturation of the other scenes.