Celebrate
Joe is walking on air after his successful audition. I tried to depict his euphoria by enhancing all the colors around him: the leaves are impossibly yellow, the sky is as blue as it can be, the shadows are full of warmth!
The idea was to turn these dials up to the limit of believability even if it became a little garish. At the beginning of the sequence Joe is also bathed in red light filtering through the Jazz club's canopy. We used red as a symbol for Joe's desire to follow the steps of the greatest Jazz musicians (You'll notice the club's stage curtain was also red). This is a color we modulate throughout the film as Joe searches for that missing piece in his life.