Experimenting with Colour

Have been working on the Colour Scripts for Draco and experimenting with hues, saturation, tonal values to discover which combination will allow for a vintage inspired film that is visually engaging. Here are a few of the less successful ones:

Also did some testing of various colours and styles to ascertain how that would affect the interplay between character, environment and the overall mis en scene of the film.

Colour Scripts

Here are the colour scripts for Draco, still tinkering with some of the colours, in some scenes they have become less an experiment in desaturation and crossed over to dull, so still work to be done for the final environments.

Draco Title Cards

Have been thinking about intro credits for Draco and am loving the homeage to classic cinema and cartoons. In keeping with this idea we're going with simple classic title cards, here's the classic ordering of the cards:

At the end of the post there is also the start title card I did for Draco, outline on Draco may need to be redone to let it >POP<. Between each card there is a simple fade and the ragtime music will go perfectly to give the overall impression of revisiting the classic cartoon era.