Just a few days after I said I enjoyed the look of Shōgun because it didn’t look like the standard streaming gruel, we have this piece. The headline/framing on this is weird—on Shōgun the image is certainly stylized, but it’s not like they blew the focus. It’s a shame, because there are so many fascinating details here that you could have easily just positioned this as “why Shōgun looks so unique.”
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Why ‘Shogun’ (and the Rest of TV) Is Slightly Out of Focus
If you’ve been puzzled by some blurry backgrounds and darkened edges on your screen while watching your favorite prestige TV shows, you’re not alone. No need to check your TV settings, though: It’s intentional.Ben Lindbergh (The Ringer)
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in reply to Mark Llobrera • • •This is connected in my brain to the growing trend of people shooting diffusion filters (like Moment’s Cinebloom) on digital to soften the clinical look—to the point that Ricoh is releasing a GR variant with a built in diffusion filter:
https://www.dpreview.com/news/0569067557/ricoh-gr-iii-gr-iix-hdr-highlight-diffusion-filter?utm_source=self-desktop&utm_medium=marquee&utm_campaign=traffic_source
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in reply to Mark Llobrera • • •Netflix users unable to finish Ripley due to ‘annoying’ filming decision
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in reply to Mark Llobrera • • •Oh! And we’re not that far removed from the numerous (positive) writeups about the cinematography choices for The Batman, where they were doing a very similar thing conceptually https://nofilmschool.com/why-does-batman-look-so-gorgeous-and-how-you-can-copy
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Why Does 'The Batman' Look So Gorgeous? (And How You Can Copy The Look)
Yaroslav Altunin (No Film School)Mark Llobrera
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This tweet (via @kottke) is cosmically on time for this thread
“Years ago, when I was in my 20s, a bold and artistically daring older friend who has since passed on gave me what I often think was the best advice I have ever gotten. I was worrying what ‘people would think’ of a decision I had made, and she said, “Amanda, There is no audience.”
https://nitter.privacytools.io/amandafortini/status/1769868640789106951
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