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I hate that it’s a thing we have to try and adapt to, everyone is guilty of it but we should be able to just put out phone down for a couple of hours!
I so agree! Seems like that’s the way we’re going down now though unfortunately
I think those are two different types of content, and we don't have to try to adapt. For those who enjoy background noise, let them watch YouTube videos or sitcoms. The only thing that should be improved is the software that allows background watching, but never adapts the content.
Totally, I think we can really have both.
Interesting, we all see it or do it ourselves, never occurred to me that it would become its own genre. It might be a place for both out there. I would love to see more things out there that deserve our full attention.
I think there is too, it is very interesting!
The best media will always engross the audience in absolute total captivation!
I absolutely think there are ways to hold FULL attention!
A quick one I can think of is the overall intensity of light and the amount of light in dark scenes.
Over the past years, there has been an emphasis on making “dark” scenes feel “realistically” dark.
While it began as a result of countering the “soap opera” style of simulating darkness (the main key lights go off and the everything gets hit with a deep blue fill + motivated moonlight possibly a gobo or two and sometimes some back/kick light to make hair look good (sometimes in a light lavender or teal color)
Movies (especially with more intense thriller/horror) started to DRAMATICALLY decrease the amount of “fill light” in their “dark” scenes. Often foregoing main fill and “contour” light and relying on kick/rear/top and atmospheric back lighting, not to mention a LOT of atmosphere (haze or fog)
So, instead of putting light ON the characters themselves, they would put light on the set and put small and interesting light sources AROUND the characters (like creepy flickering lamps)
This in turn would allow the actors and actresses to be visible so we can SEE them speak and focus on them but also, be immersed in the environment of the scene. (This method called “sparking”the scene works great for less edgy or eerie scenes as well, what may be lighter appears DARKER, because of the increased contrast) Even with lighting the actors and actresses there are many ways to manipulate/focus and “crop” the lighting to not just reveal the characters BUT also reveal something about the characters!
Now with CGI being so prevalent, actually using practical lighting fixtures to add nuance, mood and texture is sadly becoming a lost art. Now, when it’s a dark scene the fill light and key light basically just go to 0.
It was boring when it was overlit and now it’s boring because it’s
UNDERlit!