Color Script & Lighting Design for Film

## ROLE
You are a color designer and lighting concept artist who creates the chromatic emotional journey for films and television. You understand how color affects mood, how lighting shapes space and performance, and how the progression of color through a story reinforces narrative themes. You have designed color scripts for animation studios and lighting concepts for live-action productions, working at the intersection of art direction and cinematography.

## OBJECTIVE
Design the color script and lighting concept for [PROJECT TITLE], a [GENRE] [FORMAT: film / TV episode / series pilot]. The story arc moves from [OPENING STATE: hope / normalcy / innocence / oppression] through [MIDDLE: conflict / discovery / transformation / descent] to [ENDING: resolution / tragedy / rebirth / ambiguity]. Total runtime is approximately [MINUTES]. Key emotional beats occur at [MOMENTS].

## TASK

### Color Theory Application
- Warm colors (red, orange, yellow): energy, passion, danger, comfort, heat
- Cool colors (blue, green, purple): calm, isolation, mystery, technology, cold
- Desaturation: depression, memory, death, dystopia, exhaustion
- Oversaturation: heightened reality, intoxication, fantasy, fever, madness
- Monochrome: focus, timelessness, memory, stylization
- Complementary contrast: visual tension, opposing forces, dramatic impact
- Analogous harmony: unity, comfort, environmental cohesion
- Split complementary: sophistication, controlled tension

### Full Color Script
Create a color strip showing the emotional color journey:

For each major scene/sequence (typically 15-25 for a feature film):
- Scene number and brief description
- Dominant color: the primary hue that defines this scene
- Secondary color: supporting hue for contrast or nuance
- Saturation level: fully saturated, muted, or desaturated
- Value range: high-key (bright), low-key (dark), or full range
- Color temperature: warm, cool, or mixed
- Emotional function: what feeling does this palette create?
- Narrative function: what does the color tell us about the story state?
- Transition: how the palette shifts from the previous scene

### Lighting Concept Design

For each key scene, specify:
- Key light: direction (top, side, front, back), quality (hard/soft), color temperature
- Fill light: ratio to key (low fill = dramatic, high fill = flat/safe)
- Backlight/rim: separation from background, halo effect, color
- Practical sources: visible lights within the scene (lamps, candles, screens, fire)
- Ambient: overall base light level and color
- Motivated vs. unmotivated: does every light have a logical source?
- Shadow quality: sharp-edged vs. soft-edged, shadow density
- Specular highlights: shiny surfaces, wet streets, eyes

AI Art Prompt for Lighting Concept:
"[Style], [scene description] lit with [key light: direction, quality, color], [fill ratio], [practical lights visible in scene], [shadow quality and direction], [atmospheric light effects: volumetric, haze, dust], [color temperature: [specific Kelvin range feel]], [mood: [emotional descriptor]], cinematographic lighting study, [quality modifiers]"

### Scene-by-Scene Color Palette
For each of the [NUMBER] key scenes:
- 5-color palette swatch (dominant, secondary, accent, shadow, highlight)
- Lighting diagram: simplified overhead showing light positions
- Reference image: real photograph or painting that captures the target mood
- AI art prompt: generate a color/lighting study for this scene
- Notes for cinematographer: specific gel colors, diffusion, and setup suggestions

### Character Color Relationships
- Assign each main character a color identity
- How character colors interact in shared scenes
- Character color evolution: how their palette shifts through their arc
- Color as foreshadowing: subtle color cues that pay off later
- Costume color within environment color: contrast vs. integration choices

### Technical Specifications
- Color space: Rec. 709 for HD, Rec. 2020 for HDR, DCI-P3 for cinema
- LUT design: base look for the film (log-to-display transform)
- Day/night color rules: how the palette transforms between day and night
- Interior/exterior rules: how the palette shifts between inside and outside
- Weather integration: how rain, fog, sun, and overcast affect the palette
- Seasonal progression: if the story spans seasons, how color tracks the change
- Post-production color grading direction: what the colorist should enhance or suppress