I am sure somewhere there is a a fine TV series in Life in Squares but the BBC seems determined to hide it in dull grey toes washed out colour and a total absence o depth of field? And it sounds as if it was recored on a 1905 Edison machine!
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I agree in the way that I had to put the subtitles on
shareHuh? Even to my old ears, it was all audible. There were colours galore this week - perhaps it was too grey in the first episode? Or a point was being made about the world of the parents and the world of the next generation?
shareI agree about the cinematography it really deadens the film. It's too dark and smoky, also when you have a gorgeous man like James Norton you don't hide him behind a dark screen, you show him off.
shareIt does have this dark hues which the BBC love adding to its dramas in post production.
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Maybe they got enamored of the new type of lighting thing that made "Wolf Hall" famous. And now they do it for every program.
I did have to adjust my television colors and brightness to actually see all the detail in many scenes. And I have HD and an up to date vibrant picture for everything else.
They really had to TRY to make this muted that way, to confound a modern HD flat screen.
Wolf Hall was lit by candlelight apparently.
A lot of these dramas are graded in post production using Photoshop.
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I think the somber palette was in keeping with the lives of these people. Artists see the world as it really is -- full of suffering and sorrow.
Plus, they lived through massive global turmoil: WWI, Spanish flu epidemic, the Depression, Spanish Civil War, the start of WWII -- that is one helluva lot for one lifetime.
"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people."