EARNEST - Colour Palette

Our colour pallet is slightly based from the 2002 movie adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest. This adaptation is the most modern film adaptation in terms of when it was produced, and was our personal favourite of each of the three popular adaptations. We in programming our movie decided that the colour pallet would be vital to the overall aesthetic of the movie.

The collection of settings we decided on for our film ultimately determined the colour pallet we felt the movie should have.
Our main location is the gardens outside Belfast City Hall. It is a very green area of the city, with a lot of small fields, and, on a good day when the weather is good, there is a bright blue sky. This mixture of very deep greens and blues decided our colour pallet - We also think that, maintaining this green and blue colour pallet, with hints of cream and white.
This coincidentally mirrored with the colour pallets seen in the 2002 version of The Importance of Being Earnest, and, although the reasons being for this are very different due to the very different settings found in both movies exhibiting very different qualities.

We have asked our actors to dress according to this pallet.


The blues in our colour pallet are designed to reflect royalty in the same manner as they were used in the 2002 adaptation of ''The Importance of Being Earnest''. This colour has also, throughout the years of symbolism and connotations has always been associated with luxury and royalty. There is even a colour called 'Royal Blue'. We have asked Alistair to be the one to dress in this colour pallet, as he in his character development is from an upperclass background and is also more pompous and full-of-himself in comparison to Jay.
The colour blue also holds connotations with wisdom and calm, which may actually create irony and juxtapose with the reason in which we hold Alistair to wear these colours.

Jay, to divert from the original colour palette is to be dressed in a reddish maroon pallet. In the context of our film, red is set to represent romance and passion. We feel this fits our theme, as Jay maintains to be the 'love struck' character throughout the film, as the original idea of the false persona was his idea we feel that presenting him as a more subtly passionate character will be helpful in his presentation.