The verve and magic of La La Land echoes and pays tribute to the classical Hollywood musicals of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. It was in those Depression years of the 1930s that audiences flocked to see Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance, and look like they were having fun. La La Land's director Damien Chazelle was inspired by those musicals, as
arbiters of morality, the moral tone of French Louisiana was initially determined by Canadian immigrants who constituted the backbone of early colonial society. These settlers brought to Louisiana a social and Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711 (Mobile, Ala., 1977), p. 283, 423; Dunbar Rowland and Albert Godfrey Sanders, trans. and eds.,
Setting the tone through camerawork. Sangren decided to shoot on film instead of shooting digitally — this was to preserve the saturated colors in the shot, rather than adding them in post-production. The idea was to emulate the golden era of Hollywood; La La Land is a film about paying homage to '50s era filmmaking. So, the aesthetic choices for every frame were reflective of the same.