Question: any reason you color coded the boys the way you did? (Pat with Yellow, Pete with Red, Joe with Blue, Andy with Green)
I wouldn't say this was a choice I made; they're color coded that way because the music videos color code them that way. This is most obvious in "Alone Together," but it comes up in the other videos too. Patrick is often cast in a yellow palette (including his gold-colored eyes) with some reddish highlights, and Joe is usually lit in a blue palette.
Andy frequently gets some green/yellow lighting and Pete tends to be lit in heavy blacks and whites with red accents. So all I really did was tighten up that color coding more deliberately.
I made yellow more symbolically resonant with Patrick alone and partitioned green to be unique to Andy, and then played up the red color scheme with regards to Pete for the purposes of clarity (because heavy black and white color schemes are harder to work with, especially in an ensemble piece like this one, so red was just easier).
In the music videos, the color coding will switch up depending on what's happening and the specific themes that are pursuing each character. That's a throughline that follows through here, borrowing from the color schemes in the source material (i.e., the way Joe's final living moments in Issue #9 are cast in that bluish light while Patrick is lit in heavy reds, only for them to switch palettes in Issue #10).
In short, the music videos aren't as stringent with color associations as I am, so that was something I leaned into rather than downplay. But I was directly inspired by the foundations the music videos laid.
