A Few Less Men follows the mishaps and misadventures of three mates David (Xavier Samuel), Tom (Kris Marshall) and Graham (Kevin Bishop) after a destination wedding in the Blue Mountains goes horribly wrong.
When a forced plane landing strands the trio in the middle of Australia, they suddenly find themselves transporting their friend Luke's coffin across the treacherous bush.
Along the way they struggle to resist flirtatious young festival goers, dodge a machete-wielding mother and handle a mix up with a giant gold penis, all in a race against time to return Luke home. Will they all survive … intact?
A Few Less Men was directed by Mark Lamprell and scripted by Dean Craig. Tania Chambers, Laurence Malkin and Share Stallings produced the feature.
Shot in WA, the film was post-produced in Victoria at The Post Lounge's new Melbourne facility, with support from Film Victoria's Production Incentive Attraction Fund for post, digital and visual effects.
Colourist Deidre McClelland shared some insights into how colour was used to help enhance different environments and landscapes in the film and create juxtaposition between scenes.
"The overall look for the film is warm and colourful, and we wanted it to create a ‘too good to be true’ feeling,” explained Deidre.
“Also, it’s the middle of Australia, and the audience needs to feel the heat. There are scenes with hyper-coloured lights and the wardrobe is pretty ‘out-there’ in places too, so enhancing that was important. Juxtaposing that is a dark, almost spooky environment when we visit a stranger’s home, but that ominous darkness is quickly contrasted with a bedroom full of quirky colourful costumes."
"Colour also defined the different geographical locations; we cut to London a few times, so the colour palette was desaturated, cool and quite dark, which helps the audience sense the coldness of the environment, as well as see the difference from Australia."
A Few Less Men is released nationally on 9 March.
