Stone unwittingly inspired another costume—the marigold dress that Mia wears to a pool party and a Griffith Park dance sequence.

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One of the more unique musical numbers was that of Maureen O’Hara’s in Dance Girl, Dance, directed by Dorothy Arzner in Edward Stevenson designed the costumes including the costume sketch below. Maureen O’Hara plays a ballerina forced to work in burlesque, where she gives a feminist lecture to an audience of leering men. We wanted the film to have one foot in the contemporary world and one foot in the nostalgia of Old Hollywood,' says Zophres, whose long-term creative partnership with the Coen Brothers has previously seen her work on projects as diverse as O Brother Where Art Thou and Hail! Caesar. Appropriately enough for a film that's in love with film, to nail this particular aesthetic, plenty of screen time was required. 'Damien had cut together a sort of montage, of small moments from the movies that had inspired him,' she explains, 'so I made a list of what was on that and made sure to watch everything. Damien had specified that there were several pivotal films, three by [French director] Jacques Demy: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Young Girls of Rochefort and Lola. Then there were MGM technicolour musicals, contemporary fashion magazines, even candid shots of people on the street...'Of La La Land’s two main characters, Mia evolves most personally and professionally—a point Zophries was careful to telegraph.

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Bauer Consumer Media Ltd, Company number 01176085; Bauer Radio Limited, Company number: 1394141; Registered office: Media House, Peterborough Business Park, Lynch Wood, Peterborough PE2 6EA and H Bauer Publishing, Company number: LP003328; Registered office: The Lantern, 75 Hampstead Road, London NW1 2PL Helen Rose began her career designing costumes for showgirls . So she knew how to infuse flash and movability in her movie designs. She also specialized in using chiffon and had a great sense of color. Below is her costume design for Marge Chapmpion who danced frquently with her husband Gower Champion in movie musicals at MGM. The design was for Give a Girl a Break, 1953. It’s a perfect dance gown – an eye-catching red color with decollete top and full swinging chiffon skirt with sequins. He gets dressed up for a date,” continued Zophres. “I love that he has a shirt, a tie, and a blazer on when he meets Emma at the movie theater. And she’s wearing a dress. To me, that’s the most romantic moment, from a clothing point of view, in the movie, because they both dressed up for that date. People should do that more often, as far as I’m concerned.” They both sacrificed their love story to achieve their individual dreams. As afterall, they came to Hollywood to discover their dreams, not to discover their romance. The preferred reading is intended to remind the audience that although life in a musical can have its fantastical elements, there is always a darker side to the consequences of dreams, when the story is grounded in reality. In ConclusionPerhaps the most interesting way Chazelle builds up reality’s power through red is by mixing it with other colors. Our main characters find themselves in rooms and streets bathed in warring blue and red lights, like when when Mia and Sebastian discuss her show’s first draft and his club’s name. Though the creativity and authenticity of red and blue mix to make purple, a personification of love (see the first rendition of “City of Stars,” or the stunning waltz in through the galaxy), Chazelle all too often doesn’t let the colors mix. Their clothes, their light, their neon – it rarely finds a place to comingle. Damien Chazelle offers a nostalgic vision of Los Angeles’ past and makes the story relevant today by grounding the narrative in modern-day reality. La La Land offers an experience of immersive escapism where Mia and Sebastian’s goals, dreams and pathways are easily relatable. The use of primary colours represents the feelings and emotions of their characters.

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How do you create an interesting Mise en Scène to captivate the audiences’ attention? Mise en Scène is defined as the design and look of a scene. There are important elements which make up the overall appeal, including but not limited to – Colour, Costume, Character, Lighting, Props, Set and Location. How these elements are laid out on screen determine the overall theme and aesthetic of the film. As it plays, the movie uses the full color range to explore that something was always missing from their relationship; just as you can’t have rain without the sunshine or success without the hard work, Mia and Sebastian couldn’t live their lives in only one color scheme. By strategically deploying colors throughout the film, Chazelle makes the case that they were, in some sense, doomed to fail because they could never fully find their footing. Damien was inspired by the painter Ed Ruscha, and a few of his paintings that show a fan of city lights at night going out into the distance,” explained Wasco. “He wanted that view—but it was very hard to find because most people who have a view like that and a pool in Los Angeles have upgraded their pools to infinity pools. But it was important to have a pool that dancers can completely surround for a dance number.”But it also leaves a bit of wonder for that final audition scene, when Mia has everything on the line. It’s the fullest we hear Emma Stone’s singing voice get, and it’s (eventually) clear that the casting directors saw what she believed she had all along. Los Angeles is wallpapered with billboards—another production detail that would have immediately dated the film. So Wasco and Reynolds-Wasco created vintage billboards for fictional movies that the actors walked past in several scenes, while others—including a fictional billboard for Chazelle’s first film, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench—were rolled past the actors by crew members on the studio lot where Mia works.