 Half of the film was shot in the gap before Raoul Coutard was committed to shooting Truffaut's "The Bride Wore Black" and the remainder before his commitment to Godard's "Week End".At the time, Lennon chose to use the cameraman because Coutard was the only person he was aware able to shoot in an informal way.Although shot in colour, it was printed in black-and-white, partly because of the experimental and unstable reversal film stock used, and partly because Lennon thought that monochrome was more in keeping with the tone of the film.