composition

God the colour work and cinematography in this film was amazing. Lady cinematographer btw, not many of them around! She’s a director now, made a documentary, won a bunch of awards! Anyho, saturated colour casts and a mix of intimate close shots and wider context shots for the play scenes. I imagine that we will separate these aesthetically from the interviews by infusing them with more emotional imagery. The colour in Amber is rich and increases in intensity at moments when the audience is supposed to feel things. I’d like to develop this idea in the doco, refine it a bit, learn to colour grade like pro.   

Use of abstraction in composition and focal length, potentially to achieve moments of access for the viewer to insert elements of self into the scene and to cultivate empathy.

Potential use of long-form video portratiure as observational material.

composition ideas. Also possible alternative colour grading for interviews. Warmer cast.

Poor Bob.

Use of domestic spaces as ‘stages’ for interviews and play scenes. Intentional and subtly dramatized use of personal objects and spaces. The acknowledgement that the act of viewing alters an act or a space, an engagement with this as documentarians and subjects.

composition ideas. Also possible alternative colour grading for interviews. Warmer cast.