TV lighting
From Wretchopedia
Seen without fail on a Saturday evening, between the hours when it's too early to sleep and too late to think of something better to do, then turn on the wretched box and you will be assaulted by a magical realm. And to manifest its glories we have special tv studio lighting.
[edit] History of an error
Early cameras needed intense artificial light and make-up was needed to avoid frightening the audience. But modern cameras can operate in natural light at any level. Even a modest amount of aritficial light would not offend. But that is not enough for the wretched 'Television industry'. Still they insist on saturating the dreary stage with lights as bright as Betelgeuse. Still the insistence on 2 hours of make-up. Still the flattened out world of the shallow screen that oppresses the eyes with a nauseous pallette of contrived colour. Still the vomiting forth of freshly machined presenters, selected for the approximation that their facial features attain to a cartoon of soul-deprived humanity. A prisoner pantomiming for their life.
Why light these tormented scenes at all?
[edit] Always a give away
TV lighting has the uncanny ability to convey to the human brain that they are watching mediocre drama faster than was thought possible by early scientists. Tell-tale clarity and a lack of joyous,unplanned obscurities alert us to the danger.
