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Skriven 2007-08-03 12:25:11 av Amy Guskin (3177.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Lost Tales: My Review (SPOILERS, obviously!)
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>> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 03:42:00 -0400, Eric Gillespie wrote
(in article <877iodm5dj.fsf@wundagore.pretzelnet.org>):

> Josh Hill <usereplyto@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:10:59 -0700, Eric Gillespie
>> <epg@pretzelnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> I hope so; I agree with the previous poster that the docking bay
>>> looked terrible, but the lack of sets was even worse.  Those
>>> incredibly plain hallways!  They looked nothing like B5.  What's
>>> really odd is how bright they all were.  That can't be due to the lack
>>> of a real set, can it?
>> 
>> The extras showed a real corridor set. Not sure if they used it in
>> every hallway scene, or just when the actors had to interact with
>> objects or cast shadows. I assume the brightness (which I didn't
>> notice, though I believe you) was an aesthetic decision, though if the
>> actors were themselves in shadow you might have trouble with light
>> spill from the green screen.
> 
> If it was an aesthetic decision, it's one I strongly disagree
> with.  Now that my wife has gone to bed, I've pulled out the DVDs
> to capture some images for comparison.  Since we always see
> Lochley and Cassidy around security, I used the security scenes
> from "Revelations" and "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum".  And now I
> know what was wrong with the new scenes on B5.  Just look:
> 
> http://pretzelnet.org/tmp/TLT-plain/jack.png
>   - Jack getting his just desserts
> http://pretzelnet.org/tmp/TLT-plain/morden.png
>   - Morden being moved between cells
> http://pretzelnet.org/tmp/TLT-plain/talia.png
>   - Talia being taken from the security office to her quarters
> http://pretzelnet.org/tmp/TLT-plain/confrontation.png
>   - Talia and Morden meet
> http://pretzelnet.org/tmp/TLT-plain/TLT.png
>   - Lochley and Cassidy going to see Burke
> 
> What's wrong with the new scenes isn't just--or even
> primarily--the light level.  In the old images, we have light,
> shadow, color, detail!  Each wall has its own distinct features.
> We have the characteristic grid shadows.  We even have lamps!
> Where the heck is the light coming from in the new scenes?  I
> couldn't put my finger on all this at first because I've always
> taken all these details for granted; I didn't think about them,
> they're just part of the B5 "look". <<

Thanks for posting those.  That _is_ a drastic difference.  We're missing all 
of those layers and details of texture!  If the hallway sets were real, I 
wonder why they didn't attempt to match the look of the original at least 
with regard to the grid shadows, which were, as I recall, ever-present in the 
original series.  Heck, they even show up on official photographs and posed 
photos for posters and things like that!

I was so busy examining how the walls were painted that I completely missed 
the lighting.

Amy
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