Black and white film

We love the idea of making a black and white film as part of our opening. This is because its helps show the early time period (Victorian) which is what we want the child's spirit to be trapped in. It also gives a dream like feel that will help with creating the horror because it will make the audience uneasy as to weather it real or not and therefore whether it could happen to them. Black and white can open up more opportunity for mood with your film that colour cannot achieve as well for the simple reason that colour can tend to overwhelm the viewer. It therefore makes our piece simplistic but still terrifying. Also with black and white you can really extenuate an important colour by letting it be shown for example only showing the colour red can indicate gore and horror.

Marc Lees article from 'The Telegraph' about 'Why I Love: black and white films'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/classic-movies/7979564/Why-I-Love-black-and-white-films.html