Hi Scott, apologies for the delay on the reply, I'm only back from Cannes there. I never even thought to ask if anyone on here was attending. Would've been good to meet up.
The style of the film is supposed to reflect the nature of the older brother's interpretation of autism (the character being a sufferer of ASD). Therefore I want it to be a sensory exploration of vision in that it's not stylised but selectively 'over natural' looking. The mission statement (as it were) of the cinematography would be to constantly reflect the character's mood, therefore giving the audience the chance to see things more as the character would see them, and to not feel like they are watching a film but watching a person's point of view. A simplification of this, as an example, is that at times during the film the picture will under or over saturate depending on the character's concentration. There are many other little details which I'd love to share in that regard, but don't want to give away just yet.
How this will turn out is objective, it may be terrible or it may work as planned. It will be interesting to see the outcome.
As for the lighting, can I backtrack on a statement I made. I meant to say that the above shots were taken with nothing but natural source lighting, but as for the film I want it to look very natural and not stylised. There will of course be lighting used to properly highlight the visuals, I didn't mean to say that the film would be shot using only natural sources.
I appreciate the interest, if you have any more questions I'd only be too happy to try to answer them.