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environment while also meeting the emotional needs of the story in each. I wanted to emphasize the film's main themes of control and safety versus anger and chaos, using what the design team determined would be our thematic colors of blue versus red. We did not use colors to represent a character but instead developed a palette using them to show the progression of control to chaos along the spectrum from blue to red. As an example, in the White House, early in the movie, we first see Ross in the Blue Room, where he meets Sam and expresses his desire to control a new version of the Avengers. Under that sense of control, although there is a subtle note of something not quite right: The wallpaper is an interlocking web of shield patterns and fine lines, suggesting that there is something already reaching to constrain our characters. We contrast those blues with the next scene where we see Ross, in a bit of foreshadowing, stride out onto a brilliant red carpet. He then goes into a room of yellows, the East Room. Yellow is our color where control starts to slip away, as it does in the attempted assassination. We also brought that blue into the Oval Office in the carpet, drapes and upholstery. By that point in the movie, Ross thinks he has regained control, so we wanted to emphasize that with our colors. But you can note that the wallpaper is a prison of pale- yellow bars—even though he does not know it, Ross is still trapped, and things are still uncertain. The film clearly revealing why in the next scene outside in the Rose Garden, where Ross becomes the Red Hulk, blazing against the blues of the press stands, destroying them. C. WHITE HOUSE BLUE ROOM. SET PHOTO. D. WHITE HOUSE EAST ROOM. SET PHOTO. E. WHITE HOUSE CROSS HALL. SET PHOTO. F. WHITE HOUSE OVAL OFFICE. SET PHOTO. C B D F E