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The comparisons between Hannibal and Killing Eve always made me think immediately that the visual design of Hannibal is the main difference. Visual design is way more important to Hannibal than it is to your average show, and filming those scripts without a heightened reality of baroque visuals would produce a quite different effect.
But even apart from the incredible team of costumers, set dressers, and of course food stylist Janice Poon, just the photography of Hannibal was more expensive. The lighting and framing and camera angles of the shots on Killing Eve betray the lower budget and they even look a bit old-fashioned; prestige tv never looks like that, even if it's relatively traditional visually.
As enjoyable as it is to watch, I actually find the photography and lighting of Killing Eve getting in the way for me. And even since before I started watching the first season I was thinking it was too bad that Killing Eve couldn't go back and film with a borrowed photographer from Hannibal (because the comparison between the two is understandably frequent).
But I've been binging This Old House, a reality tv series originally owned by the Boston-area PBS affiliate, and this morning as I was assembling a post of screenshots it occurred to me that you don't have to go anywhere near Hannibal. Killing Eve could upgrade just by borrowing the photography style and light design from This Old House...( Read more... )
But even apart from the incredible team of costumers, set dressers, and of course food stylist Janice Poon, just the photography of Hannibal was more expensive. The lighting and framing and camera angles of the shots on Killing Eve betray the lower budget and they even look a bit old-fashioned; prestige tv never looks like that, even if it's relatively traditional visually.
As enjoyable as it is to watch, I actually find the photography and lighting of Killing Eve getting in the way for me. And even since before I started watching the first season I was thinking it was too bad that Killing Eve couldn't go back and film with a borrowed photographer from Hannibal (because the comparison between the two is understandably frequent).
But I've been binging This Old House, a reality tv series originally owned by the Boston-area PBS affiliate, and this morning as I was assembling a post of screenshots it occurred to me that you don't have to go anywhere near Hannibal. Killing Eve could upgrade just by borrowing the photography style and light design from This Old House...( Read more... )
