walimaa@ssc-vax.UUCP (Sandra J Walimaa) (03/18/85)
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A friend of mine is wondering if any one else thinks that the female
characters are blurry in the tv series? If so, does any one have any
ideas why?
I don't regularly read this newsgroup, so I would appreciate it if
replys could be mailed to me.
Thanks in Advance
{decvax,ihnp4,tektronix}!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!walimaaedward@ukma.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) (03/20/85)
I'm gonna post this netwide 'cuz it's relevent...
Yes, the female characters in the TV series were 'blurry'. They were
filmed with a 'soft filter'. (Any photography nut wanna tell us exactly
what that is?) I presume this was done to make them more feminine, as
opposed to the 'harsh', sharply focused men.
I remember reading this in one of the Star Trek books. (The World of ST,
The Making of ST or one of that bunch)
resident trekker,
edward
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{Lots of Places}!cbosgd! -|rafe@reed.UUCP (Rafe Needleman) (03/22/85)
[*** LINE THE MESSAGE WITH YOUR BUG ***] >A friend of mine is wondering if any one else thinks that the female >characters are blurry in the tv series? If so, does any one have any >ideas why? I have noticed this too. When I'm watching Trek with friends, someone always says, "Smear that lens with Vaseline!" when they show a closeup of a female. (Putting Vaseline on a lens "softens" the focus, and is *supposed* to make subjects look "soft" and "feminine". Of course, it can be overdone. When this happens, subjects just look blurry and stupid.) They didn't only do this on women. In "The Enemy Within", where Kirk splits into a good and evil half, they used a soft-focus lens on the "good" Kirk, to emphasize sensitivity and weakness, and harsh light and a hard focus on the "evil" Kirk, to play up nastiness and fear. -Rafe (rafe@reed)
terryl@tekcrl.UUCP () (03/22/85)
>Yes, the female characters in the TV series were 'blurry'. They were >filmed with a 'soft filter'. (Any photography nut wanna tell us exactly >what that is?) I presume this was done to make them more feminine, as >opposed to the 'harsh', sharply focused men. If I remember my photography correctly, which is slightly inlikely since it was over 9 years ago, a soft filter is a filter that is not totally trans- parent, sort of like the kind of glass one sometimes sees in shower stalls. Just enough is light is passed through to see shapes, but not much detail. A soft filter is similar but not quite so drastic. Another use photographers use it for is to hide small physical imperfections of the subject the photographer wishes to photograph.