Dark

[Yakov10]

Hi Roger,

I’m getting ready to shoot a movie where most of the action will take place in the dark.

The hero enters the room, the door closes behind him and complete darkness falls.

Darkness becomes one of the main characters. 65% of the screen time, the viewer sees not just darkness, as the absence of light, but a kind of thick, viscous, almost physical substance that fills the space. It’s not just a black color, it’s a deep, moving texture—like a black liquid, smoke, or magnetic shavings. There are no familiar shadows, silhouettes, or visual supports. Only the hero’s voice, rustles, echoes, breathing, rasping.

The main question. How to remove the darkness?

I would appreciate it if you could respond.

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[LucaM]

Yakov10 wrote:

How to remove the darkness?

With some kind of…uh…light?
Lame jokes apart (but i suppose you’ll have to use some kind of light to make the abstract texture noticeable), it seems a very interesting project. I’m curious to know what Roger would do in this case.

But if i didn’t misunderstand what you were describing, isn’t it a bit risky to get so close to complete darkness for so much time? I mean, if one will watch it not on a perfectly calibrated monitor but on a tv or a pc with a slightly lowered brightness or, even worst, on a tablet with a variable brightness, would he still be able to discern something in the almost complete black of the screen?

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