Quote from: judge death on May 05, 2021, 10:13:01 PM
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2: Make it franchise related, steelpunk or whatever you want to call it, like disney did with star wars: amke it to a style and keep technology in line with what we saw in the movies and ignore real life technology is way more advanced in certain areas.
-- my preferred option, which is the direction
Alien: Isolation took - a deliberate retro "industrial-tech" style.
It provides a nostalgia that I enjoy but it also separates the
Alien-look from all the other futuristic sci-fi that is currently out there. I'm sure you're familiar with the production design style that's so ubiquitous these days: free-floating see-through holographic GUIs, often in 3D; flat-panel all-in-one haptic displays. I feel like I've seen enough of this.
In
The Expanse they have the space ship interiors that are roomy and bright, and others that are dark and laden with pipework, ducts and cable trunking. The two styles distinguish between the well-funded and modern Earth/Mars ships, and the older, jerry-rigged Belter ships. I prefer the latter; it's the WWII German U-boat look.
You probably know the story about Ridley Scott inspecting the Nostromo bridge for the first time and instructing that the ceilings be dropped by a couple of feet. He wanted a claustrophobic, cramped in feeling. Afterwards, the cast and crew were constantly bumping their heads on the ceiling fixtures. This is ideal! It's the best way to convey the idea that you are in an enclosed pressure vessel where atmosphere is a precious and highly controlled commodity. All spaceship set should have ceilings, and low enough that they are constantly in frame!
In
The Expanse (season 5), Drummer's ship is like this. It is strongly reminiscent of
Alien. If only they had spurned the large, flat panel displays and gone for discrete controls with hardware knobs and levers and switches and buttons.
TC
