Film has the potential to jump timelines, making it n extra tool tool for filmmakers, either it used to be part of the story or to compliment it. For "See You Soon" we have two timelines, one in which the mother and daughter interact, and one timeline where the daughter would have died. this usually gets confusing to the audience when it intercuts with each other.
To make the audience notice the image change without it being too obvious is if you change the overall mood between the two, the most effective would be if you put two colours that are opposite in the colour spectrum, when there's a dramatic change the audience will automatically understand the offset, and it becomes a motif that they can understand every time there's a shift in time.
Some examples where colour is an important factor in determining the time frame, Looper(2012), Pulp Fiction (1994), SAW (2004), Inception (2010), The Butterfly Effect (2014)
In addition to this, I think it's more important if colour used more to compliment the mise-en-scene of the film. For "See You Soon" I would like to have the two shifts in time be between warm and cold colours.
Timeline 1: Future
The palette I want for this is the colour blue, since it's past the death, were everything is slightly cold. it's also a calm colour juxtaposing the chaotic second timeline.
Timeline 2: Past
Red, as warm hues are a priority, shifting between reds for extreme moments in the film, to light orange sequences when it's all normal.
To further develop this it would be interesting to look at the contrast between night and day, and to see what can come out of that. I would like to give the pre death sequences an artificial look, give it the normal house look, so when the contrast kicks in it would be more effective.
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