How Color Will Play a Role in My Film

     As I mentioned in a previous post, my short film is going to follow the personification of death as they encounter different people and witnesses their reactions to "death". For the film, I want death to start off as all black and white, and as they go through each person, they will gain the color of said person until at the very end, "death" is colorful, representing how death is anything that people view it as. Each person and their view will be visually represented by costumes and especially their color scheme. 

Each Character and their Color

    In no particular order right now, one of the characters that "death" encounters will be blue, representing an individual who is perfectly at peace with the idea of eventually dying, believing that there is a better life awaiting after. The yellow character will be obsessive, fixated on avoiding death by illness at all costs, consequentially becoming dependent on pills in the process. The next character will be purple, depicting the fantasy or delusion that this character can simply avoid death all together, causing them to be reckless and over confident. The orange character would be someone who happily welcomes death with open arms, almost as if they were longing for deaths warm embrace. Green will represent a person who is dealing with survivors guilt over someone who died in a car accident they were both in, envying their death and wishing that they were the ones who died instead. Finally, the pink character would be someone younger and innocent, who does not quite grasp the full idea of what death is and what it means to die. 

    While I'm not sure if I will have enough time in the film to flesh out the character for every single reaction and color listed above, my overall idea is to try to incorporate as many depictions and reactions to death as possible in the most meaningful and effective way I can.