Sir Noel wrote:dap-addict wrote:pastaga wrote:Great scene !
(aside the room walls and floor...)
Walls and floor are the least problem for me.
Floor is worse than walls, though.
Yeh, not a massive fan of the bleached white sets but this is not the answer. Actually, i like the sets that Tushy have started using the last couple of months, with very saturated blues and reds.
A lot of decisions about set & decor will come down to the actors involved, because they come first and the room is context.
Without getting too film technical, but in order to get a decent contrast range with darker skintones (this may be black performers or just very tanned) you have to open up the aperture on the camera to let more light into the lens.
Now if you've got the lens wide open & you've got brightly lit superbright colours all over the room, it's going to either make the camera autostop down (darken) or it will stay open and the viewer will get blinded * annoyed by sudden brilliance changes.
Skin quality is another thing. Bright light can help bleach out even out skin tones that may have red marks etc. Which makes for more evened out aesthetically pleasing skin textures in film. But if you go too bright you lose your shadows and you're left with a cartoon.
So while people may be wanting this or that decor, those a few considerations that may dictate to a director why they can;t always accommodate these things in every scene.
Giorgio should write a book on day. The art of Directing Porn, so trashy directors who shoot grimy scenes in hotel rooms with the curtains drawn can actually learn how to do it properly.