FICTION ADAPTATION: DEVELOPING VISUALS

Brainstorming

After much deliberation I have come to pick the spoken word poem Red Phone Boxes by Adam Kammerling as the content for my film. Although I am not a literary expert I liked the image of a red phone box as something striking and prominent to focus on. I have a good skim through the poem and like the images created through the words, but I want to do something unexpected and not what you might expect when reading the poem. So as a result I have been imagining what my film might look like in its style, I have toyed with a few concepts.

Firstly My favourite TV show Utopia (Channel 4, 2013-14) has the most striking visual style I have ever seen in film of TV and I love the idea of being able to take inspiration from this. So as a starting point I have looked into exploring the possibilities, with the look I'm after it will require a lot of work colour correcting in post production. I have looked at the best software for this and have my eyes set on using Da Vinci Resolve software which comes highly recommended and is brilliant for the kind of thing I would like to at least try.

The show Utopia is unusual in that its colour palette is not based off Red, Blue, Green which is the norm, but instead has a base of Yellow, Cyan and Magenta.

This is mainly done through colour correction although especially as the show gained more popularity and subsequently budget, they were able to dress the sets to aid colour correction. 

This clip shows what I mean by the colours being different: 

As a completely alternative option I have looked into doing something demonstrated in Schindler's List where a young girls red coat is the only thing in colour in the whole film. Red being the appropriate colour for phone boxes.

In terms of what I might actually film and who might be in it well that is not as far progressed, but I have been doing research into voice actors on voicespro.com. I have decided here that would I would like someone from the outside looking in, so preferably someone not from the UK of Ireland but may work with someone from elsewhere than the south east of England as would still be an outsider. 

Also in terms of locations the poem is very descriptive on red phone boxes locations and features. I may be tempted to go to one of the mentioned phone box sites in the poem. There are many options here, but I am just brainstorming ideas to see what I would most like to do, but also what would be most appropriate for the poem.