It’s not every day you get to legitimately hang out in a beer garden in the name of your art, but that’s exactly what I did today. I enlisted the help of the wonderful Thomas Hogben, who filmed these shots (and others) at Laings for the opening sequence, which is no longer happening on a beach for the sake of practicality. Poor Alanna actually did get burnt…
I did a quick colour grade test in Nuke for these, the tricky part is trying to grade it well enough that it looks harmonious and not amateur, yet resisting temptation to go so far that it screams “THIS IS A GRADE!!” – after all it’s a science doc, not a music video. Will find some similar scenes from “Inside the Human Body” and other docs and try to match those.
Cell Shading 
Good direction with the warm tones, but the shadows need more teal. You need to make the characters pop!!! Also intensify the overall colour and crush the blacks. You should never really see more than two hues in the whole film. Here, use this as a reference: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_j2Qz3-XdONU/TRry5KDwSeI/AAAAAAAAAE8/G1cuF2s1Pps/s1600/transformers-2-pic.jpg
And if you have time, throw in a little lens flare and maybe some camera-shake effects. These screen grabs are pretty sharp so I’m assuming you didn’t go quite far enough with the hand-held Bourne Identity style camera work that all films must seemingly have.
But joking aside, these are looking good. The real trick is, as I see it, to go just far enough to help the mood, and stop it from looking like it’s just straight off a digital camera. I would maybe throw in just a touch of blue to the shadows, or maybe shift the whole thing a touch more red, as right now it’s maybe a touch too yellow – unless you’re going for a slightly retro/vintage look.
If that’s any help…