Our Film Aesthetic

Color Palette 

 Our film is hoping to have a dark color palette. Dark lighting is typically seen in horror, especially with dark tones and red hues.

For example, this is a color scheme from IT (2017). There is both black and red colors used in this shot. Red signifies danger, and often blood in horror. By using red as the main color of the shot, it contrasts the innocent white color of the costuming. It is a contrast to reveal the intentions of the character. 

Red is guaranteed in horror. However, there are other colors that can have the same effect that red has to display danger.

This shot from Saw is using green, which often symbolizes nature and the earth. However, with the person in the center of the shot twists this meaning. The green makes this seem more disease-ridden and disgusting. The green twists your stomach rather than calm you down. Horror can still be effective without red tones.

While knowing this, we still want to use red as our main color scheme. It will be a better match for our film.