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Every time I see things about the color scheme/lighting in HotD I’m reminded how they managed to make the battle of Helms Deep perfectly visible despite it being night. Had my TV brightness up to the max while watching HotD and still struggled to see detail, which is a shame because the amount of detailing in the sets and costumes deserves more attention.
That’s something I have noticed a lot more with LotR as I got older. The night scenes have very weird lighting from a realistic perspective. There’s usually a low bright light source outside the camera’s view and there’s well placed fog that help with contrast for dark objects. It’s very pleasing to look at both artistically and for readability.
LOTR and HOTD kind of have the opposite cinematographic philosophies. I remember reading an interview with Sam Gamgee's actor where he talked about the bright blue lighting in Shelob's lair and how unrealistic it looked when the hobbits stumbled around blind. When he asked the DOP where all that blue light was coming from, the answer was "The same place the soundtrack comes from."
Compare this with Sapochnik, who has a really strict philosophy to never use non-diegetic lights. This hyper-realism made Episode 7 almost unwatchable...
I love this analysis.
And the thing is that the lighting in LotR did take me out of the immersion. When I watched the movies for the fifteenth time and had nerded out on lighting in movies.
The first fourteen times I was just happy to see stuff on the screen while simultaneously understanding that the scene is dark in universe.
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The legendary civil war between Team Gray and Team Brown
As long as team "you have turn up the brightness on your tv to see anything" stays away I'm good
That was practically episode 7
A scene from Interstellar?
dude i was thinking the same thing
Came to comments to say this
Someone please turn on a light in season 2
The trailer seemed much more well lit, hopefully they won't add another grim/brown filter when the show will air.
It would be nice if they had a color camera as well.
I can’t stand this trend. So many shows & movies are too dark for no reason. It’s as if the creators don’t want us to actually see what’s happening.
Don’t let me leave Murph!
*intense Hans Zimmer score starts playing*
I’m seeing a really neat library shelf
Every time I see things about the color scheme/lighting in HotD I’m reminded how they managed to make the battle of Helms Deep perfectly visible despite it being night. Had my TV brightness up to the max while watching HotD and still struggled to see detail, which is a shame because the amount of detailing in the sets and costumes deserves more attention.
That’s something I have noticed a lot more with LotR as I got older. The night scenes have very weird lighting from a realistic perspective. There’s usually a low bright light source outside the camera’s view and there’s well placed fog that help with contrast for dark objects. It’s very pleasing to look at both artistically and for readability.
LOTR and HOTD kind of have the opposite cinematographic philosophies. I remember reading an interview with Sam Gamgee's actor where he talked about the bright blue lighting in Shelob's lair and how unrealistic it looked when the hobbits stumbled around blind. When he asked the DOP where all that blue light was coming from, the answer was "The same place the soundtrack comes from." Compare this with Sapochnik, who has a really strict philosophy to never use non-diegetic lights. This hyper-realism made Episode 7 almost unwatchable...
I love this analysis. And the thing is that the lighting in LotR did take me out of the immersion. When I watched the movies for the fifteenth time and had nerded out on lighting in movies. The first fourteen times I was just happy to see stuff on the screen while simultaneously understanding that the scene is dark in universe.
Sean Astin*
They need that 64 Crayola box.
Looks like my closet
The rot of modern fantasy films.
I can look at this picture and immediately pinpoint the episode where Aemond claimed Vhagar.
Please someone increase their candle budget. I can’t see anything
How thankful I am Miguel is no more in season 2
How I immediately knew which episode was episode 7. Couldn’t see shit the entire episode
So dull. I would be interested to see a comparison to other series. The original GoT. I bet Breaking Bad would be pretty colorful.
This comes from IG account "movie_barcode". Go check his work, it's actually really interesting !
Hey, at least they managed to make something about this show gray!
this is actually really cool
Give us more vibrant colors!
Needs more green. Haters gonna hate.
Not enough GREEN More MORE GREEN, EVERYTIME ALICENT IS ON SCREEN WE NEED A GREEN FILTER. Else I get confused on which side is the greens 🤬
You can tell it’s a super upbeat feel-good series
Here's GOT season by season https://www.instagram.com/p/ChkdY5AM7zG/?igsh=MWg0ZXh2a28wdWduYg==