Have you noticed that lots of movies and TV shows have impenetrable visuals?
Ever since Gordon Willis shot The Godfather, people have always been wrestling with how visuals use or do not use light on the screen. In new movies like Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Batman, and even TV like Game of Thrones or Ozark, the lighting, or lack thereof, is a huge topic of conversation.
Entertainment at home has always come with a few caveats. TVs come with motion smoothing and other baffling settings that take brightness away from the programs you watch. Before you even get into the meat of this article, make sure your TV is at optimal settings for what you’re about to enjoy.
If all is well on that front, then we have to dig a little deeper.
First, let’s start with the idea that when your favorite film and TV makers sit down to watch their creations, they’re doing it on computer screens in a completely dark editing bay, with excellent quality. Their first times watching are not in projection rooms or home TV setups, they’re watching at optimal levels.
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
