A few seconds of darkness is fine. For example - the character wakes up and turns on the light. But the current trend is that sometimes entire scenes are too dark.
A few seconds of darkness is fine. For example - the character wakes up and turns on the light. But the current trend is that sometimes entire scenes are too dark.
I really like DS9, but going from TNG to DS9 is a little jarring. Feels like DS9 is so dark at times it's hard to see.
That has a lot to do with the sets. The promenade set is fucking huge and doesn't really have many good places for big studio lights so they used overheads and built in 'natural' light for the most part. This was also because it was a Cardassian station and Cardassians like shit a bit less bright
Here's a cool behind the scenes from a set tech