As previously stated on the blog, we have had various issues with the colour of our footage. Our main location for our film showed up much darker than anticipated to the extent where the characters features were hard to define. After thoroughly searching the Internet for a resolution we trialled colour correction, negative tone and having the film in sepia.
However, none of these helped the mood of the film, so we turned to our original inspiration, Shane Meadows. Through secondary research, we found that his first feature length film TwentyFourSeven was in black and white and also shared the same genre are Prodigy.
Although not formally stated, it can be argued that he did this to pay homage to Martin Scorsese' Raging Bulls. However, We have another reason for using this stylistic technique. In this day and age, black and white not only has themes of nostalgia attached to it but also anachronism. As our film passes through several states, past,present, future and even conditional he chosen color scheme goes hand in hand with the subject matter.
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