Lighting and Colour Research - Main Task

We wanted to have the light in the room to be quite dark, reflective of Peter's depressed personality. In this way, having a room with limited light source, other than a skyline, small window, was perfect. Having one small, desk lamp meant that it was not too dark and allowed us to see the room with all the things in it effectively, as well as being able to see Peter's character. However, we wanted the colouring to be high in blue, reflecting Peter's dull, dark room along with his personality. 

Despite this we did not worry too much about the colouring since much of this would be completed in post-production using the software colour.  During this process we wanted to increase the blue colouring to imply that the protagonist is sad and depressed. As well as this, we increased the red to signify that the character, Peter, also has a lot of anger as in fact capable of doing anything in order to get revenge for the bullying which he received at school. Thus, hinting at what is to come in the rest of the film and also creating enigma, as we would want in a conventional film opening.

To keep the lighting in the room quite dark we used the black-out blind that was the only source of light in the bedroom: the skylight. However, even with this drawn it was still quite light so we ended up sellotaping the blind to get rid of any light streaks coming form the side of the blind. The only problem with sellotape is that it is not very good at sticking to walls and so it kept falling down and so the lighting changed slightly throughout the different shot types. However, this was resolved in post-production where we used the software 'colour' to adjust the brightness and exposure of each shot to make sure that the light levels were all the same, thus making sure that each shot didn't look like a different time of day since we wanted it to be around 12 pm.

With 'colour' I wanted to create something partially stylised, however we did not want it to be overly stylised as I think it would shade the meaning of the piece. In this way I made most of the shot seem naturalistic, increasing the contrast of the colour to just heighten them and make them look more appealing than the initial shots.  Increasing the shadows also made it seem more threatening, relfecting Peter's character.