STAGES OF THE COLOUR GRADE

Adobe Photoshop C36 was used to colour grade our trailer; we used our own knowledge and assistance from a friend to transform shots such as those above. We wanted to use a lot of warm tones in our trailer to connote the romantic theme, which is evident in the first screenshot of the bin. We graded Mara and Sam's shots separately so to emphasise the contrast between the blue and red shades which represents the binary opposites in our narrative, life and death, boy and girl, extroverted and introverted, etc. In the shot of Sam spitting out water the background was initally compromised of pink tones but we drew out the colour purple in the edit so to show how his life, represented by the colours pink and red, was being changed by Mara (red and blue create purple). In the last screenshot, we were disappointed with how the camera muted the colours in the original footage; thus we targeted the red colour in the edit because colour is such a strong symbol and motif throughout our trailer.