how to show that it is too cold

Pokri

Pokri

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can you please help me in showing the cinematic ways of showing its too cold there

the scene happens b/w a guy and gal

I thought of showing mist,fog, morning weather, actors wearing sweaters , shivering.

I want to show in entirely different way ?

Last time when I wanted to show silence I showed it with a butterfly on a big bell indicating silence
 
Was the bell part of the story (scene set in a church for example)? Or was the shot of the bell and butterfly a random insert?

And as for showing something in an "entirely different way"... I think that can be a dangerous mindset. I think ideas should come naturally out of the story you want to tell. If you start trying to be "original" all the time and over think things then a film can quickly become pretentious I reckon. I'm not saying don't try and be original but make sure the story is being served and not the ego of the director.
 
The one thing that shows cold better than anything else, and also shows that it's not really cold when missing, is the actor's breath. When it's cold, we see it. When it's not cold, we don't.

So to show cold, you really kind of need to be cold.
 
crispy, frosty grass getting stepped on always reminds me of the most frigid days (I chalk it up to deer hunting - waking up at 4am in early winter and walking a couple miles across frosted grass in the early morning dawn is the epitome of cold, in my mind), of course misty breath is involved in this too :)


Cheers,
Adam
 
I'd show a frozen corpse lying on a wasteland of ice and tundra with a Polar Bear tearing apart it's intestines.
 
Watch the color palette you are using for the scene. You may want to shift more towards the blue in your lighting and art direction. You know... the "Cooler" colors.
 
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