Why is it that every time I watch a Taiwanese drama, I get this "hand-held" camera-like effect? The palette is kind of off-color and always looks low-budget. Even American soap operas have better lighting and coloring than this =_=; I should also say... even Chinese drama from the Mainland has better lighting and color despite the low-budget-ness of each series. How do I explain it... ...? Something about the way Taiwanese drama is shot a lot of times is very unappealing.
I like Japanese drama camera work, because you have an assortment of color and it feels like they found skilled people to manage the equipment, or have better equipment. Taiwanese drama colors are seem faded in a way -- even the bright ones. I always see fuller picture in Japanese drama. It's not like I detest Taiwanese drama, but sometimes I just have a hard time watching it -- other than the really bad storylines, bad acting, and bad directing --'cause the coloring's so off.
In terms of picture that attracts my interest, I like American primetime drama & Japanese drama. Then I like Cantonese drama (TVB) and Korean drama. Next is Mainland China drama (the color's nice in a lot of the series, just the budget is really low at times and some things are really funny looking), and last is Taiwanese drama. I hate the bad-camera-like effect I get when watching series no matter how good or bad it is.
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