The House of the Dragon was dark last night as characters stole dragons and made super incestuous life decisions. Many viewers wondered if their TVs were busted after all of it was done in the dark.
Your television is not broken. The TV is a victim of the show. The man can see in the dark because this is the second time he has directed an episode in the game of thrones franchise cast in such darkness.
The long night was a harrowing hour of TV where the many characters of Game of thrones gathered to end the Night King's invasion of the land. The zombies had their heads chopped off. Beloved characters ended their lives. There was a small amount of incest. Everything looked like it had been shot with the lens cap on the camera.
At the time, he said that the darkness on TVs was a feature. The same thing is happening this time as well.
It is very simple to understand what is happening here. The person making the film isn't thinking about the product that is delivered to you. The editing room was where they finished the episode.
The editing room usually has a perfect reference monitor. It is possible to see grays and blacks with our eyes. The range of grays is not the same as the range of TVs at home.
An editing room doesn't just include a $30,000 reference monitor that will make your eyes bleed with the beauty of the content it screens, that's why If you go to an editing room, you can usually find an OLED TV like you would find at a store. The content is usually viewed in the same room that you watched it in. The television could be better. When you combine a well-lit room with a cheap set, you're in for a very unattractive viewing experience.
Maybe you have a nice television. You may have had issues watching House of the Dragon in a dark room.
Increasingly, filmmakers seem to forget that what they are watching in the editing suite isn't what we'll get at home.
I apologize but how is your internet?
When Sapochnik and company finished editing the show, they were likely using a very clean copy with little to no compression. The filmmakers are watching a lot more data than you do.
Streaming services compress videos so they can stream them quickly and efficiently to us, and that means data is lost, and the film we stream into our homes isn't quite as pretty as what the filmmakers intended The cinematography of The Long Night blamed compression for the poor reactions to the show. It's a good price to pay for convenience and we all accept it.
Is it possible to watch on satellite or cable? Or it could be worse. Legacy TV uses compression technology that is out of date and too many channels you don't watch. The good news is that your cable or satellite link has plenty of bandwidth to spare, but the bad news is that someone decided to give Disney and 17 other channels extra bits to play with until they're a muddy mess.
filmmakers seem to forget that what they are watching in the editing suite is not what we will get at home Some films and TV shows that look great in a theater or a screening room end up looking bad in our homes.
This is something some filmmakers are aware of. Christopher Nolan would love for you to see his movies in a theater. Tom Cruise would love to have you turn off the soap opera effect so you can watch his movies as they are intended. Some people want to turn you into a dark place. He might be hiding Easter eggs and teasing for future episodes. If you want to join him, you will need to rethink how you watch TV.