Considering the Aesthetic

 I feel that there are two possible aesthetics for my film. There's the ultra-clean, antiseptic look with smooth, shiny surfaces and one dimensional colour palette as exemplified by the image above. The other option I am considering is a more natural color scheme, creating the factory building out of earth tones and then off-setting that with more colorful machines and colorful robot workers. It would be lit with natural light from the outside or warmer indoor lights as opposed to the stark, bright white lights of the McLaren factory seen above. The image below comes close to what I imagine, though the factory in the film will not be abandoned.

Whichever environment I choose, its main purpose will be to reinforce the narrative's ideas of contrast. In this I believe I have two main options. Option one is to demonstrate in the film the transition of the factory from its original, more colorful and natural state to its aseptic state. In this version it is the old robot that is the visible outsider, as his design and aesthetic will match the original factory's visuals more than the modern factory. The downsides to this option are that it will take time and narrative exposition in order to communicate the idea of the transition from old to high-tech. The other, larger issue is that it necessitates the creation of two or more sets, with additional props on top of that probably needed to fully realize the idea visually.

The comparatively more simple idea would be to keep the lower-tech looking factory and instead insert the modern robot workers into that set, making them the visual outsiders. I feel like this is the stronger option, as it gets the same idea across in the narrative in a method that is far less costly to produce. It also reinforces the idea that the new workers are the intruders into the old robot's space, and that the original workers, perhaps unjustly, were driven away from their jobs in the name of efficiency. If nothing else I feel that the modern, white and shiny factory has been done to death in science-fiction media and is overall aesthetically boring.