white-void-hollywood

To understand why white void Hollywood studios are so appealing to contemporary moviemakers, let us first see how they employ it in their productions. The white void Hollywood cyc wall is simply a featureless expanse of white. The studios simply erect an expansive wall that is totally featureless. The room is then painted in a pure white color. Once this is done, it gives the illusion that the subjects (actors) are seen as standing in an empty white space.

The room is so featureless that it would be impossible to tell from any footage or photographs taken with the cyc in the background that there are any walls at all. You cannot see the walls, the floors, the ceiling, or any other indication of space and dimension. The actors appear to be hanging in nothingness. A great white void Hollywood studio blends all the walls, the floor and the ceiling into one seamless space in such a way that the dimensions of space are lost when filmed or photographed.

This is the reason why the white void Hollywood studio room is called a white void, because it is indeed a void. It lacks any notion of dimension and placement when shot in a film. Why would a director prefer to shoot a scene in a white void Hollywood studio? What is the intent of loosing the dimensions of setting? The white void Hollywood studio comes in hardy when the director wants to achieve the film effects discussed in the following paragraphs. There are times when the director will wish to express a transition from one realm to another such as when going from a dream to reality. The dream is digitally put in place of the white screen, and when that dream is over, the stage can then shift back from the white void. This is one of the greatest ways of expressing dreams instead of shooting in a monochrome mode.

Similarly, a director may wish to propel the plot with a flashback scene. That means he or she has to craft a means of removing the viewer from their current time and space to a past event as imagined by the actor. The best way to shift the viewer is by removing the normal misce-en-scene and carrying the viewer through the white void where the flashback is acted out (past) and back again to the normal misce-en-scene (present). It works perfectly and no viewer will be confused about the plot’s back and forth movement.

Another great example we can highlight in the use of white void Hollywood studios is the so called ‘imprisonment settings’ in filmmaking circles. Imprisonment settings are the settings in which a director may wish to shoot an interrogation, or a subject in any kind of imprisoned environment (prison, mental institution, etc). This is easily achieved with the white void Hollywood studios since the white void has no exits, no windows and no definition of dimensions so freedom is seen as absent.