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Aug. 28th, 2011 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieI am vidding, and have two observations:
1.) Man, Northern Exposure sure had a lot of night shots. (Understandable, I suppose, since, hey, set in Alaska, with eighteen hours of darkness for half the year. Still.)
2.) Their directors and/or cinematographers (I am unclear on exactly who decides to film a scene from an unusual angle or that a shot will be tracking instead of static and things like that) were amazing. This is one of the most beautifully shot TV shows I've ever seen. I love the way they make use of the transitions from indoors to outdoors around the radio station, Ruth-Anne's shop, and Fleischman's office. I'm also fond of all the overhead shots.
I have a good feeling about this vid. I'm mostly done; it's just about eight seconds towards the end that are giving me fits. Everything I try just seems kind of blah. It'll work out, though, even if I have to do some rearranging.
Current mouse status: Silent. But last night it didn't start up until almost midnight, so this means nothing. At least only seems to move around for two or three hours at a time before going silent the rest of the night and day.
1.) Man, Northern Exposure sure had a lot of night shots. (Understandable, I suppose, since, hey, set in Alaska, with eighteen hours of darkness for half the year. Still.)
2.) Their directors and/or cinematographers (I am unclear on exactly who decides to film a scene from an unusual angle or that a shot will be tracking instead of static and things like that) were amazing. This is one of the most beautifully shot TV shows I've ever seen. I love the way they make use of the transitions from indoors to outdoors around the radio station, Ruth-Anne's shop, and Fleischman's office. I'm also fond of all the overhead shots.
I have a good feeling about this vid. I'm mostly done; it's just about eight seconds towards the end that are giving me fits. Everything I try just seems kind of blah. It'll work out, though, even if I have to do some rearranging.
Current mouse status: Silent. But last night it didn't start up until almost midnight, so this means nothing. At least only seems to move around for two or three hours at a time before going silent the rest of the night and day.
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Date: 2011-08-29 06:21 pm (UTC)The show itself was purposefully vague about how far north the town was, and purposefully wrong a few times as well--no way was it possible to have days on end of no daylight or no nighttime (not even twilight, just bright sun or pitch dark for 24 hours at a stretch), respectively, but they had episodes centered on those circumstances nonetheless. Artistic license, I guess.
I was in Scotland (56N) in late June a few years ago, and I remember being utterly astounded at the fact that I was going to bed before the sun had finished setting--at 10:30.
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Date: 2011-08-30 06:09 am (UTC)It's been too long since I've watched the series, so I can't remember much of it, but I do remember liking it. I also remember that if they did manage to scrounge up a day of full darkness it would hardly be the oddest thing to happen there.
*adds pictures of daylight in midwinter to things I should post list*
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Date: 2011-08-30 06:24 pm (UTC)Oh, how cool! I've wanted to go there since I got into the show about ten years ago...it's not something I'd make a special trip for (I hear there's not a lot to do once you take a picture of the cafe mural), but if I were up that way for another reason I'd totally detour.
I also remember that if they did manage to scrounge up a day of full darkness it would hardly be the oddest thing to happen there.
Bwahahaha. Very true. :D