Color/Lighting

 The school itself will use a cold, flat color palette—mostly gray, white, and cold blue—to make it look like a hospital or an office building. This clean, sterile background makes Billy, who should wear a loud, warm color (like a bright red hoodie), visually pop right off the screen. The lighting is harsh and flat, coming from bright LED strips overhead, which is perfect for casting sharp, unflattering shadows that make the adults’ sad, scowling faces look extra pathetic.

During Billy’s pranks, the lighting gets a little more fun. When he’s being a "badass," he gets a bright rim light from the harsh LEDs that makes his outline glow, showing he's the powerful one. The disgusting mess he creates, like a handful of crickets, is often filmed in a close-up that uses slightly unflattering, yellow-Ish light to make the chaos look even grosser. The whole visual point is that the ugly, bright lighting and cold colors make the boring world look like it deserves to be messed up.