Essex Boys: How does the director use British locations and colour to establish menace?

This shot uses a very dull colour palette which allows the menace of the scene to be seen straight away before any action occurs. The use of leading lines and the vanishing point increase the menace as we do not know where the location is heading to or where the character is going to end up. The use of the colour palette allows us to feel the menace due to the cold greys and blues seen in the shot.
The blue sky, however, contrasts with the blue of the water as the sky is much brighter than the murky water. This tells us that although the place is filled with menace, there is still a small amount of light and hope.

This shot tells us that the character present in the scene is of high importance and has high levels of danger and menace as the shot is at a low angle. The light next to his head gives a sense of disorientation and confusion as well as danger as we sense that something is off in the scene. The view in which we see him, is though a darkened dirty screen which uses a dull colour palette to emphasise the menace once more as he is seen hazily through the dirt.

This shot uses the bars as foreshadowing for future events, as a crime will be committed and so prison will be the end consequence for this character telling us that although menace is present within them, they are not very good at hiding it. The bars are in a bright colour which makes us think that although the foreshadowing leads to a bad end, there is still a glimmer of hope for the character. We cannot see the location except a few car lights in the backgrounds which symbolises the danger following them.