The Light: VDT

[sweeetlilgurlie]

Towards the end of the Dawn Treader's voyage the travellers are coming closer and closer to the sun. Everything is getting brighter and brighter. I'm wondering how this is going to translate in film. Are they going to omit the idea entirely, or keep it in? How should they keep it in?

My idea was that in the first stages on the film everything could be a shade or two darker than usual. Then as the voyage goes on and the travelers begin to near the end of the world everything could start becoming brighter; more saturated with color, more rich. Imperceptible, something that would be happening so slowly that you wouldn't realize it at first, but then you look back on the film and realize what the filmmakers were doing.

What do you think? Would this be a good plan to add to the general feel and excitement at the end of the world?

[Watziznehm]

Like I said on another thread I think that the filters they use will make a difference. If they use a "brighter" filter in this part of the voyage that the rest of the film then it could work quite well.

Will the film makers try to make this part look brighter? I have no idea, but I think it very likely. Which is to say, the Dawn Treader is sailing into the sun so if they didn't make it look brighter somehow it wouldn't look right.

[7chronicles]

Along with the Light I think there should be a sort of clearness to everything. Sometimes if the light is to bright it's hard to make out what your looking at. So maybe the scene could be a little lighter but with such a clarity and richness of color that it appears brighter then what it would look like if they just made the scene brighter in lighting only.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

I think it should be similar to the contrast of a ship breaking through the ice in the South Pole, except with a summery look.

[A_Narnian_Ship]

everything definitely needs to be crisp though...by that I mean with being able to see every detail. The light doesn't create this white haze, it just intensifies everything.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

I didn't word it very well but that's what I mean, yes. The details intensify and there is a refreshing air to the whole moment.

[sweeetlilgurlie]

@Warrior 4 Jesus: Do you mean a snow-type brightness rather than a sunshine-y brightness, then? That would be interesting. Cause in the winter, It's generally cloudy, yet everything is bright because the snow casts a light of its own.

It would be interesting if they did a similar effect with the Silver Sea.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Gosh, I'm not doing too well explaining myself. Yes, thanks, that's exactly what I mean - a snow-type brightness (but summer-like weather of course).

[Watziznehm]

Hey, that would be cool. a winter like brightness with summer weather. You would definitely know you were at the end of the world then because it sort of symbolizes a place without seasons. A place like the end of world maybe?

[GlimGlum]

Very good topic! One aspect of this that goes hand in hand with the light is the size of the Sun. The crew thinks it is getting larger as they travel eastward but then there is a moment when they are sure that it is larger.

Perhaps if they incorporate both the Sun getting larger and therefore the light more intense as this happens. Maybe because both phenomena both happen together, the size of the sun and the increased light will be balanced out somehow. (Hope that makes sense.)

[Liberty Hoffman]

hmmm.....
It would be cool if the sun was so bright that you couldn't see the sky, or if it was so bright you couldn't se the sky or water!
I hope this part comes out well in the movie!

[Bookwyrm]

If it was that bright, you wouldn't be able to see anything at all and the characters would go blind.

[decarus]

I think making the sun seem larger is what is important. They don't have to make it really bright.

[coracle]

Booky, in the novel it says they were able to bear the light because they had been drinking the water and it had made them stronger.

[sweeetlilgurlie]

Hmmm. I'd almost forgotten about the sun getting larger. That will definitely be important. Like GlimGlum said, it would be very neat if the light increased in proportion to the size of the sun.

Also, I don't think that the movie lighting should become perceptibly bright, or more saturated, or more rich, until they reach Ramandu's Island. That should be the point where the light starts to change. I think that it would be a good idea if the light changed enough that the audience would really notice (after a while) that the colors were brighter than before, not just people looking for the brightness.

If it was that bright, you wouldn't be able to see anything at all and the characters would go blind.

That's why the beginning of the movie would be darker. So that the audience wouldn't be blinded when things started brightening up!

[decarus]

I don't think that it is likely that they will make the light blinding. Just making the sun larger and more in their view is all that is necessary.