When approaching the design for Iron Lake it was important to the director and I to establish a beautiful world set during a sunny day to juxtapose the horror that later occurs in the film.

I wanted everything to feel functional and purposeful. The camp should have a sense of playfulness that is masking the underlying conformity that haunts our lead character Scott who is battling his sexual identity. 

Setting the world in a neutral color palette we decided to use Red to represent the metaphor of horror, and Blue to represent Eddie which later becomes the color that will haunt Scott.

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