day for night

[sergebroom]

Remember when film stocks were not as sensitive to low light-levels? To give the illusion of night, they'd shoot a scene in full daylight, then darken the film, with very unconvincing results. Either that, or we were supposed to assume that there was a very full Moon 20 feet into the sky.

The technical term is, I think, day for night.
In French, the equivalent term is American night.

Yes, it's almost midnight here, and I'm still working on the Project from Hell. I'm cleaning out messy data that made it into the database before certain issues were fixed. All problems have been resolved.

Of course, I'm not expecting the other shoe to drop or to have it hit the fan.

Comments

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

You and François Truffaut....

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Truffaut dropped the other shoe a long time ago.

I never saw his movie la nuit americaine, but that's when I first became aware of the technical term American night. As for the late Francois Truffaut himself, I think he was of my favorite French directors. The stereotype about the French is that they are passionate, and they are that, but their movies have a tendency to put a distance between their characters and their audience with the result that I know what I'm supposed to feel, but not feeling it. That's my case anyway, with most French directors. Truffaut was the exception, one where I could feel what he wanted me to feel.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

That's a fair judgment (say I, having seen Les 400 coups a few times).