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You would think, given that I loved and adored the craptastic, shoe-string budget effort that was Blake's 7, that I wouldn't get hung up on the production values of TV shows. And usually I don't. I'll forgive shaky sets and bubble-wrap aliens and makeup that's a little to obviously applied, all the damn time.
I don't know why the lighting on this particular show is bugging me, then. I mean, everything else is more or less perfect, given the budget and the era. Not just perfect, but pretty (dammee, I love me some Victorian costuming). It's just the lighting. The shadows on the set never match the apparent light source. Which, given that the light source is supposedly a series of candles and gas lamps and oil lanterns, is probably to be expected, it's just ... It's so obviously wrong in some places. So obvious that the light is coming from the wrong direction, or shining past the supposed source, so that you've got the shadow of the lamp that's supposed to be throwing the light against someone's shoulder. *grumps, shakes head* I don't know why it's bugging me. It'd be next to impossible to film using the actual Victorian era lights, I know that. I ... just wish they wouldn't be so obvious about when the spots are coming up, and the fact that the light is always coming from the wrong bloody direction.
Yes, I can be bloody picky sometimes, why do you ask? *grins faintly* And it's an odd thing to pick to be irritated by, I know. It just ... really reminds you that this is a set, is all. Breaks the illusion, and that does annoy me, especially in what is otherwise a very enjoyable show. *is grumpy*
Also, and more enjoyably, there's this particular prop that keeps showing up. A really hideous table-lamp with mother-of-pearl shells. I've gotten rather fond of keeping an eye out for it, spotting it showing up in villain-lair after villain lair. *grins* And it's always the villains. I oughta write a story about that lamp, how it keeps ending up in the hands of evil. Presumably, because villains have no taste. *grins*
You know, I blame my dad. And my grandad, come to think of it. Stage hand/electrician and makeup artists, the pair of them. It's their fault I even look at these things. But, really, the lighting on a show/play will always catch my eye. *grins* You know, you can always tell what decade a show was made in by the lighting of it. The seventies, in particular. The seventies have a very distinct type of light.
Anyway. Blathering over now. *shakes head at self*
I don't know why the lighting on this particular show is bugging me, then. I mean, everything else is more or less perfect, given the budget and the era. Not just perfect, but pretty (dammee, I love me some Victorian costuming). It's just the lighting. The shadows on the set never match the apparent light source. Which, given that the light source is supposedly a series of candles and gas lamps and oil lanterns, is probably to be expected, it's just ... It's so obviously wrong in some places. So obvious that the light is coming from the wrong direction, or shining past the supposed source, so that you've got the shadow of the lamp that's supposed to be throwing the light against someone's shoulder. *grumps, shakes head* I don't know why it's bugging me. It'd be next to impossible to film using the actual Victorian era lights, I know that. I ... just wish they wouldn't be so obvious about when the spots are coming up, and the fact that the light is always coming from the wrong bloody direction.
Yes, I can be bloody picky sometimes, why do you ask? *grins faintly* And it's an odd thing to pick to be irritated by, I know. It just ... really reminds you that this is a set, is all. Breaks the illusion, and that does annoy me, especially in what is otherwise a very enjoyable show. *is grumpy*
Also, and more enjoyably, there's this particular prop that keeps showing up. A really hideous table-lamp with mother-of-pearl shells. I've gotten rather fond of keeping an eye out for it, spotting it showing up in villain-lair after villain lair. *grins* And it's always the villains. I oughta write a story about that lamp, how it keeps ending up in the hands of evil. Presumably, because villains have no taste. *grins*
You know, I blame my dad. And my grandad, come to think of it. Stage hand/electrician and makeup artists, the pair of them. It's their fault I even look at these things. But, really, the lighting on a show/play will always catch my eye. *grins* You know, you can always tell what decade a show was made in by the lighting of it. The seventies, in particular. The seventies have a very distinct type of light.
Anyway. Blathering over now. *shakes head at self*
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