Location Research

September 16, 2016 Unknown 0 Comments

The genre for my film, Aurora, is a science-fiction, adventure and thriller. As it's a sci-fi and adventure film, it will need different settings to make it look the part as well. From my initial ideas and storyboarding, you can see that some of the locations are set on Earth and on the planet of Aurora. As the filming is only done on here on Earth, I will need a way of making it clear to the audience that they are on a different planet. I could do this is different ways. The first way in which I could achieve this is by adding objects such as flying vehicles, planet's, unusual plants and trees. Another way this can be done is by changing the colour scheme of the two different scenes. I could give Earth a warm orange tint and Aurora can be given a purple hue to make it seem unusual, connoting to a sci-fi film.

For my location research, I have gone out and taken several photos of locations that may be suitable for my film.




All these images have been colour graded inside of Adobe Photoshop to give it a unique look. The first two images have had their blue channels reduced to remove the cold and winter feel, and their red and green have been boosted to give it a warm feeling as if it's summer. The third image has had it greens reduced and its reds and blues enhanced to give it a winter/autumn look. The final two images are from the same location but from the colour schemes, they look as if they are in two different locations. One of them had had its blues and reds increased, and green reduces which gave it an overall purple hue. This makes the scene look cold as if it's winter. The last image used more reds and green, with reduced blue, to give it a green atmosphere to make the location seem unusual and mysterious. This could be used as a genre indication to connote a sci-fi and thriller film, and the unusual location will help connote adventure and sci-fi.