DAYS looks atrocious. GH has nice sets but the lighting is awful.

On 5/1/2022 at 10:29 AM, John said:

Even though Prospect Park mishandled how they spent their capital imho, both AMC & OLTL looked  good during their 2013 revivals. 

!!!!! I agree with that!

16 hours ago, DemetriKane said:

!!!!! I agree with that!

Yep and by mishandling, I for one dont think PP needed to do cater meals every day. Save that cash and put into the episodes

On 5/13/2022 at 8:14 PM, ironlion said:

DAYS looks atrocious. GH has nice sets but the lighting is awful.

Does anyone understand why DOOL looks blue?

On 5/13/2022 at 6:28 PM, Liberty City said:

Since 2015, the production value on Days of Our Lives has been that of $1. Camera and post-production quality has diminished to nothing. It is 2022, for something filming in high definition to look worse than it did in standard, is horrible. Especially when your web-exclusive content looks ten times better.

Some editing I did, which only slightly improved things, but I don't get how a soap that went HD in 2010 and looked good up until January 2016 (admittedly a bit earlier than that) is now looking.... bad!

 

Yikes. Right around the time DAYS was gearing up for their 50th anniversary, with their returns of Steve and Bo, suddenly everything was lit with a greenish hue and it stayed that way at least through 2016. Nowadays whenever it's nighttime in Salem, everything is lit up with a harsh blue, like it's a very bright moonlight even indoors. I don't get it. 

At least get back to the moody dark shadows of the mid 90's (think: Aremid, etc.) to help cover up the cheapness of the sets. 

Speaking of Aremid, I definitely appreciated DAYS' production values in the 90's up to the mid-2000's, when sets were large, mostly lit properly, and sets of homes and establishments had multiple parts to them, instead of just one flat room that everyone goes in and out of like a highschool play. 

 

Edited May 16, 20223 yr by Gray Bunny

19 hours ago, Gray Bunny said:

Yikes. Right around the time DAYS was gearing up for their 50th anniversary, with their returns of Steve and Bo, suddenly everything was lit with a greenish hue and it stayed that way at least through 2016. Nowadays whenever it's nighttime in Salem, everything is lit up with a harsh blue, like it's a very bright moonlight even indoors. I don't get it.

Yes, unfortunately it did, and it still semi-happens. According to one of the soap magazines (I believe Soap Opera Digest) reported they updated to 4K lights, which with non-4K cameras can end up looking like the result we had from the end of 2015 to now. But, we've seen with their Day of DAYS cameras and their YouTube-exclusive filmed content that things can look rich with the proper use of cameras. Plus, the change also happened when they brought in Albert Alarr. May be coincidence, but still makes me wonder.

The only time DAYS seemed to be regaining some ground back in regards to production quality, was when Ed Scott was EP. However that didn't last long. 

1 hour ago, MichaelGL said:

The only time DAYS seemed to be regaining some ground back in regards to production quality, was when Ed Scott was EP. However that didn't last long. 

Apparently production quality is too expensive for them.

 

On 5/1/2022 at 11:29 AM, John said:

Even though Prospect Park mishandled how they spent their capital imho, both AMC & OLTL looked  good during their 2013 revivals. 

Looking back at it, their production value reminds me of how [some] British soaps are producing, and it's sad they couldn't continue. However... the fact the doors opened backwards always felt like a mistake they should have fixed.

20 hours ago, Tonksadora said:

Apparently production quality is too expensive for them.

Yet they keep an ever-revolving door of talent, and their regular cast list is one of the longest in current American daytime history.

2 hours ago, Liberty City said:

Looking back at it, their production value reminds me of how [some] British soaps are producing, and it's sad they couldn't continue. However... the fact the doors opened backwards always felt like a mistake they should have fixed.

Yet they keep an ever-revolving door of talent, and their regular cast list is one of the longest in current American daytime history.

Yeah I would hate doors like that

3 hours ago, Liberty City said:

Yet they keep an ever-revolving door of talent, and their regular cast list is one of the longest in current American daytime history.

I'd said that DOOL can't afford production values, and you'd replied as above.

 

Okay, they can't afford to keep cast on permanent full time like what everyone is used to, so they devised this rotation where they literally rotate contract players on & off affecting how they tell stories & how the fans experience seeing too much of one or more characters & none of others. Did this count of cast list size take into account their rotation? And, that's supposedly the reason KA left, they wanted to rotate her off for 6 months then bring her back with some again supposedly fantastic storyline with a Navy seal (Who thinks of these pitches?) What am I missing? All I see & hear & read convinces me that they are broke.

Bold was the best from 1989 to 1993... consistent till 1999... cheaper and cheaper till 2005... but still okay... then next 10 years it looked cheap as hell... and from 2016 till now... its like a school project at moments.