Complaining about lights is bizarre. Is lighting now a futuristic proposition?
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I didn't think it was horrible, just uninteresting. But most new Trek shows take at least two seasons before figuring out what the show is about and where they want to go with it. Usually with syndicated shows, this just develops organically. If VOY had been syndicated, I think things would have been very different. But because it was the flagship show for UPN, and UPN had their heads up their asses, we ended up getting TNG Jr. for the next five years, with no conflicts, no real character growth, no real vision to speak of other than the 'get back to Earth' trope, and no change from the status quo or any real meaningful story arcs other than over-reliance on the Doctor, 7 of 9, the Borg, and the reset button.
You do realize that the camera is going to make any light source appear brighter than it actually is, right?
I learned that years ago when I was building models and putting lights in them.
All the pics I took of my finished ships always had bright spots where the lights shined through the ports/windows/running light LEDs.
They do a lot of post production work with the digital process to try and tone some of that down nowadays.
(they used to use filters on the film camera lens to do that, at least till JJ wanted lightspill to show up all over the place in the final product)
But the sets and lighting from the 23rd, the 25th, and 32nd centuries look too much alike now. Section 31 it was hard pressed to even tell it was the 2320s or so. It looked the same as all the other shows. Picard season 1 and 2 were similar. The only time when picard looked like its time period is when they showed a starship and the lcars and of course the D.All the bridges on all the shows are dark colored and darkly lit. The different tone periods used to seen so much more distinct. Not anymore.
What I said stands. Its still a modern neon lighting effect.
You are stating a falsehood with your last sentence.
They no longer use neon lighting systems in the panels, they are too costly to produce/replace and get way to hot when lit for long periods of time.
It's all LED strips/bulbs and even a lot of the spot lighting uses much cooler bulbs now.
And there is a massive difference between Neon and LED lighting in the effect alone on stage, but as I stated above, the camera makes all light sources into hot spots.
You seem to be trying to compare 1980's lighting effects to 2020's lighting effects, there's a big difference in both how it's done and why it is done by productions now.
Also, most of SECTION 31 takes place in Non Federation places, so of course it's not going to be comparable to Fed. Starship interiors.
BTW: the dark interior sets in Sci-Fi, began way back during the ALIEN movie era.
But 'dark interiors' used to still be lit so that you could actually see what you needed to. The current approach of some shows/movies is to bring it all down to within a photon of what is visible to the naked eye.
Everyone keeps complaining about dark interiors, and all I can think is, have these people seen Strange New Worlds?
Yeah, man.
They are stuck in a loop.
Everyone?
Their corridors and briefing room(yeah I call it that) are brightly lit. But the bridge looks to under lit. I want a bit more normal overhead lighting and some lighter colors.
Mainly of being more closely faithful to the TOS bridge than the other sets. There are few true curves of any scale in the wall stations. A lot of 18 degree angles.
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