VampireHunterAlex t1_itxc5t2 wrote on October 27, 2022 at 12:03 AM

Why does this keep happening with shows, especially ones with such high budgets? I read an article the other day from some guy behind GOT, and he said those dark scenes are perfectly fine on his Home Screen, and that there’s just so many variables in type & settings on modern TVs. But you’d think then they would do lighting tests before full production even begins, and have like a master tv room where they can run scenarios on test footage.

This should not be as large of an issue this far into the streaming era.

SpongeJake OP t1_itxdmmq wrote on October 27, 2022 at 12:14 AM

I’m sorry, I should have been more specific. I didn’t mean physically dark, I meant mentally. The show was depressing as hell, it really was. Literally almost no joy anywhere in it at all.

VampireHunterAlex t1_itxfvfa wrote on October 27, 2022 at 12:31 AM

Oh derp, my bad. I must have just skimmed your post, but my response was already bubbling in my mind and did a sort of mind-warp. I had read the article on lighting the other day, and it was in my mind.

SpongeJake OP t1_itxi5zk wrote on October 27, 2022 at 12:48 AM

No worries. But you also raised an interesting point about so many programs out there handle lighting. Sometimes during the day the shows are so dark you can’t even see the characters very well.

And don’t get me started on the mumbling stuff. For some reason a lot of actors mumble their words so lowly and so fast that they’re unintelligible. I find a lot of Prime shows are like that, and so for most of the time I’ve got captioning turned on.

Prax150 t1_iu06pfm wrote on October 27, 2022 at 4:11 PM

I too thought they meant literally dark lol. Started watching the first ep with my parents and they didn't want to continue because they couldn't see anything.

In general I think this happens because a lot of shows/movies shoot in the day and put a filter over it to simulate night time. I guess it's cheaper to film that way (don't have to pay people over time, use a bunch of lights, etc). I remember reading about it after Nope came out, which apparently was revolutionary because the cinematographer came up with a new method to film during the day and make the scenes pop a lot more.