This phenomenon with color in cinema and games is also to appease the underabled: the partially blind and the various types of colorblind. Certain people see certain groups of colors are one shade and actually get more detail from a digitally desaturated image.
Why not just make multiple versions? Or a color mode in the settings?
Laziness / money.
Why make the media so dead and ugly for the sake of a tiny minority, how can that be financially feasible?
ESG score. Basically, megacorps give studios grants to make media a certain way. Include a gay protagonist, include a black character, have an overarching anticapitalist message, etc; and get lots of money, so much that sales don't even matter. This is how AAA developers can still be around years after producing nothing but total failures.
Quality post. I didn't know about the accessibility angle before, but I still think a lot of the trend is herd mentality among directors as the boomer auteurs lose influence, ceding ground to more conformist millennials.
and get lots of money, so much that sales don't even matter. This is how AAA developers can still be around years after producing nothing but total failures.
edit: and this too. I wonder how much of that money is still around under the current administration though.
It's mostly herd mentality following a trend... Which then after some years turns into borrowing inspiration... Just a major lack in originality.
Like the original Jurassic Park were shot in a format to use ALL the screen space to make the dinos as big as possible. They new ones followed regular wide format trend, completely against the original...
Then you have something like Batman getting a dark n gritty rework, and suddenly everyone is inspired to do dark and gritty remakes across all media ><
In modern day James Cameron Avatar is one of very very original scripts, that are actually successful... Nearly everything else is an adaptation or purchased IP.
I can rant about screensize ratios for a while lol
4:3 made sense. Its a square, but slightly wider because we have 2 eyes and there needs to be room for the buttons. 3:4 makes sense for portraits as it'll frame 2-5 people very well. 16:9 made sense for movie theatres that wanted to seat more without having the screen be too tall, and the format was well adapted into cinema but only for that reason, not cuz it was any better.
Nowadays everything is 16:9 and some cinema is even thinner. Its ridiculous tbf. My computer monitor doesn't need to be so wide, and my phone screen doesn't need to be so tall. The ratio is too far apart to be ascetic in my opinion (unless framing multiple subjects), where 4:3 was the perfect ratio to see the full frame at a glance. I'm rambling now, I just miss the old format.
This phenomenon with color in cinema and games is also to appease the underabled: the partially blind and the various types of colorblind. Certain people see certain groups of colors are one shade and actually get more detail from a digitally desaturated image.
Laziness / money.
ESG score. Basically, megacorps give studios grants to make media a certain way. Include a gay protagonist, include a black character, have an overarching anticapitalist message, etc; and get lots of money, so much that sales don't even matter. This is how AAA developers can still be around years after producing nothing but total failures.
Quality post. I didn't know about the accessibility angle before, but I still think a lot of the trend is herd mentality among directors as the boomer auteurs lose influence, ceding ground to more conformist millennials.
edit: and this too. I wonder how much of that money is still around under the current administration though.
It's mostly herd mentality following a trend... Which then after some years turns into borrowing inspiration... Just a major lack in originality.
Like the original Jurassic Park were shot in a format to use ALL the screen space to make the dinos as big as possible. They new ones followed regular wide format trend, completely against the original...
Then you have something like Batman getting a dark n gritty rework, and suddenly everyone is inspired to do dark and gritty remakes across all media ><
In modern day James Cameron Avatar is one of very very original scripts, that are actually successful... Nearly everything else is an adaptation or purchased IP.
I can rant about screensize ratios for a while lol
4:3 made sense. Its a square, but slightly wider because we have 2 eyes and there needs to be room for the buttons. 3:4 makes sense for portraits as it'll frame 2-5 people very well. 16:9 made sense for movie theatres that wanted to seat more without having the screen be too tall, and the format was well adapted into cinema but only for that reason, not cuz it was any better.
Nowadays everything is 16:9 and some cinema is even thinner. Its ridiculous tbf. My computer monitor doesn't need to be so wide, and my phone screen doesn't need to be so tall. The ratio is too far apart to be ascetic in my opinion (unless framing multiple subjects), where 4:3 was the perfect ratio to see the full frame at a glance. I'm rambling now, I just miss the old format.