"Amarar" unfolds its narrative into three very distinctive sets: an apartment, a beach and alleys of a sea city. In each one of them, according to director Emanuel Mendes, there had to have three different colors: aseptic-white in the apart; yellow-orange at the beach; hot-red in
the city where the two characters meet. Following Mendes's instructions, cinematographer Maurício Franco used different filters to create the ambients, and there was later rework on telecine and on the light correction. Although there were no references to constructing these
sequences, director Emanuel Mendes admits influences from Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jean Vigo, Marcel Carné, and Lars von Trier.