Did they specifically design lighting and shadows on the set for black and white? Old film directors took that into account when shooting without color
From
Wikipedia:
The series was created for release in both
black-and-white and color. To achieve the two versions, on-set footage was captured digitally to then be split and processed separately. The team coined the term "True-Hue" to refer to how they went about creating their
Technicolor-like color version, with Cage saying that version was made to look "super saturated" and Uziel noting it was as if the black and white film had been colorized.
[4] Cage likened the style of the color version to the painting
Nighthawks (1942) by
Edward Hopper.
[6] Anthony Breznican at
Esquire felt each version resulted in different vibes for the series, "with the color version veering more toward the lighthearted comic-strip crime capers of
Dick Tracy, while the black and white conjures the sinister moral abyss of
the novels of Raymond Chandler".
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