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 was watching Army of Darkness with a friend the other week and I wish more movies were lit like that these days. It was like, a more natural looking light.
It was natural, the sun did most of the lighting work. They filmed it outdoors in a dessert.
That’s super cool. I hope that look makes a comeback at some point.
Shooting on location used to happen all the damn time. There are a lot of issues with it. Lighting scenes by sunlight is a major problem when you need to do take after take after take because the sun moves. You don't want shadows jumping all over the place after the edit. Weather can kill a shooting day, can't shoot after sundown, different times of day also give very different kinds of light. But it used to be, you wanna make something look like outdoors and use that scope of frame, you had to load of a tonne of trucks and do it. Oh, those are other practical issues, you basically have to make an Iraq war FOB for that shoot. You have a crew of like almost 100 people at least, with tonnes of expensive equipment, then there's shooting permits, environmental surveys, increased insurance costs.
All that being said, what should fucking matter is what ends out on the screen. Spend the fucking money, it costs about the same as the Vietnam Memorial of underplayed CGI artists anyway. Get out of your chair and go stand in the hot ass sun for 16 hours and commit to the fucking craft you frauds. You will get a better movie from it every single time.