Something that I should have looked at earlier and alerted the group of, was the slight contrast in colour schemes from scene to scene. To counter this I decided to do some colour grading on the whole animation so that there is more of a cohesive colour scheme throughout the documentary. The use of colour grading in this instance had a variety of functions. Firstly, it made the documentary appear and feel more cinematic. Before hand the colours were somewhat normal in that the shadows and dark areas were simply black and the lighter areas contained a lot of white. Using the 'three-way colour corrector' tool on Premiere Pro I adjusted the colours so that the darker areas would be a deep blue and the lighter areas would be tinted slightly yellow. I thought this had a much better look to it and meant that scenes throughout the animation had a similar use of colour that could be seen quite easily, rather than a contrast from scene to scene. The darker blue tones are most evident in the shots of the Earth where a lot of the scene is comprised with previously black or dark colours. Finally the use of colour grading here meant that in my opinion the animation has a much clearer and overall superior aesthetic. Before, it didn't have a clear colour scheme that was recurring throughout and although some scenes look a lot different from other due to what they are depicting, for example the colours in a rainforest scene to the colours in a scene set in space, they do now have some overlap in that there will be flecks of dark blue and a yellow tint across them.
Overall I think the consideration of colour on the animation has a whole has helped to increase its appeal from a visual stand point and somewhat gotten rid of any clashing of colours from scene to scene. As well as this it adds a lot of cinematic colouring to the scenes and in my opinion makes it feel more dramatic because the colours and dulled down and neutralised - reinforcing the seriousness of the issue being depicted.
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