And that was always interesting keeping that as a tension point between the characters and the actors. As soon as I decided to shoot in digital video, I went back and looked at the Cassavetes films. I remember thinking John would be so happy if he had the digital cameras now. I used that as one of the sources of reference, like letting the actors go and do what they need to do and just let the cameras document it. When you go online with the digital image, you can start really playing around with it.
Electronic grain feels very zappy.
And the film deteriorates into more of this electronic grain. We took some color out and we added a lot of warm tones to it. The other color that we really pumped up in the end was the red room. In the flashbacks, we drenched the colors out, so all the memory is in a kind of black and white. But when it's very vivid in his memory, then it turns very vivid color.