Creating 2015—Day 36:   Coloring Collusions

3:55am.  I can’t fall back asleep.  I need to but I can’t.  My mind won’t calm down.  There’s too much to do.  I give up and get out of bed.  It’s now 4:55am.

Today is all about color.  We have to be at CCI Digital at 9am with our director to go over his color notes with the colorist so said colorist can get started color timing the movie.  We are on a tight schedule between now and me walking into The Los Angeles Film Festival office and handing them our DVDs for festival consideration on Tuesday, February 10th.

Collusions Production – LA Times Building Shoot

Color is critical creatively for Collusions!  The film jumps back and forth in time—from past to present, present back to past—and the visual aesthetic of each time period needs to be crystal clear for the viewer to help them follow the story. A story I call cerebral, which is code for complicated. And color is a key way to create that clarity. Wow, I’m using a lot of alliterations with the “cuh” sound this morning. Which reminds me. Uh-mazing Romantic Partner and I have realized that lately we seem unable to communicate, our tongues’ tied, if we do not begin speaking our sentences with, “the fact of the matter is,” “bottom line,” “the reality is,” “ultimately,” or, “at the end of the day.” We need to work on that.

I’ll let you know how coloring Collusions goes.

Until tomorrow, create from what you have…color.

Kelli Joan Bennett is a filmmaker, actress, writer, entrepreneur, advocate for creative thinking and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Think Outside The Box Inside The Box Media.

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