www.thewrap.com: Black and white photography was a natural choice for “Mank,” David Fincher’s evocation of 1930s and early 40s Hollywood, chronicling the writing of the classic “Citizen Kane.” But “Mank” marks the director’s first feature film in black and white. And his decade-long collaborator, costume designer Trish Summerville, quickly understood that the absence of color could create a disorienting sense of what’s-what on set.
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This is a really fun trick! It seems so obvious, but it is not something that I would have thought of right away. I do love the almost humorous colors that get used in real life when filming in black and white. One of my favorite pieces of trivia is that the set for the Adams Family house was actually mostly pink instead of black because that was what read the best on the other end of the camera and production. So reading about Seyfried's journey and experiment with different strange color combinations in order to get the right result on screen was a lot of fun and very interesting. I would love to get to know more about the difference in the strange color combos when it comes to sets as opposed to costumes. As well as how the two work together. I imagine it would be more of a challenge as you couldn't just agree to a color palate, but instead would have to work to find the hues that work together.
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