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Live your best life. Again
Audrey is a dramedy following self-appointed Mother of the Year, Ronnie Lipsick, who lives a life she never wanted, with a derailed career, a husband whose love for life has gone limp and two daughters she struggles to connect with. When an accident lands her eldest daughter, Audrey, in a coma, Ronnie gets a second chance at life by taking on her daughter’s identity – she’s not the only one in the family who sees Audrey’s comatose state as an opportunity. Directed by Natalie Bailey (Bay of Fires) and written by Lou Sanz (The PM’s Daughter), Audrey is produced by Michael Wrenn (6 Festivals), Dan Lake (Early Winter), Steph Westwood, Shannon Wilson-McClinton (Hearts & Bones) and Diya Eid with Executive Producers Kurt Royan (Retrograde) and Roxana McMallan (How to Please a Woman).
As a dark comedy, our creative direction for the key art centred on hinting at the family dynamics with a strong focus on Ronnie’s Freaky Friday-esque identity assumption and the lengths she’ll go to protect her new-old life. Working with photographer Julian Panetta, we shot gallery stills on-set based on several specific concepts. A lack of clean plate photos from the set required Carnival to recreate Audrey’s bedroom as a CG environment, which was then manipulated for the trippy, drugged effect.
The film and characters are loud and often outrageous, so we sought to use colour to capture the wild energy of the story, to convey the often chaotic and messed up nature of the film.
Production credits
Art Direction: Demi Hopkins
Photography: Julian Panetta
Retouching: Mike James, Nic Greene
CG Environments: Mike James