"We all know the late-night slog of finding something to watch, flicking between streaming services until settling on a series someone mentioned at work. And then a few minutes later, you're squinting, adjusting your lighting or playing around with TV settings it's a night-time scene and you're unable to make out what's going on. Begging the question: When did everything on screen get so dark?"
"Last year's biggest film Wicked received widespread critique for the way it felt on screen, even compared to a TV advert. It's harder still, to refrain from critique when The Wizard of Oz, a film often credited with changing film colouring forever, serves as the first in this cinematic universe. This month's much-anticipated sequel Wicked: For Good has been similarly criticised."
Viewers increasingly encounter very dark or overly backlit scenes in contemporary streaming and blockbuster productions, making night-time action scenes hard to see. Poorly lit battle sequences and dark cinematography have provoked widespread criticism and online complaints from viewers frustrated by obscured visuals. High-profile fantasy and musical films have drawn scrutiny for scenes that are either murky or blindingly backlit, obscuring character and set detail. Classic Technicolor captured extremely vibrant color by splitting light into blue, green and red beams, recording them separately and recombining them in post-production to produce vivid on-screen palettes.
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