To understand why white void Hollywood studios are so appealing to contemporary movie makers, let us first see how it’s used by them in their productions. The white void Hollywood cyc wall is simply a featureless expanse of white. The studios simply erect a broad wall that’s absolutely featureless. The room is then painted in a pure white color. Once this is done, it gives the illusion the subjects ( actors ) are seen as standing in an empty white space.

 

The room is so featureless that it might be very unlikely to inform from any photos or photographs taken with the cyc in the background that there are any walls at all . You can’t 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 mixes all the walls, the floor and the ceiling into one seamless space in such a way the dimensions of space are lost when filmed or snapped.

This is the reason the white void Hollywood studio room is called a white cyc, as it is a real void. It lacks any idea of dimension and placement when shot in a film. Why would a director wish to shoot a scene in a white void Hollywood studio? What’s the desire of loosing the dimensions of setting? The white cyc studio comes in hardy when the director wants to reach the film effects debated in the following paragraphs. There are occasions when the director will want to express a transition from one realm to another such as when going from a dream to fact. 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 wall. This is one of the best techniques of expressing dreams rather than shooting in a monochrome mode.

Similarly, a director may want to propel the plot with a flashback scene. That suggests he has to craft a way of removing the spectator from their current space and time to a past event as imagined by the actor. The simplest way to shift the spectator is by removing the normal misce-en-scene and carrying the spectator thru the white cyc where the flashback is acted out ( past ) and back again to the normal misce-en-scene ( present ). It works superbly and no spectator will be perplexed about the plot’s backwards and forwards movement.

Another excellent example we are able to highlight in the use of white void Hollywood studios is the so-called ‘imprisonment settings’ in film making circles. Imprisonment settings are the settings in which a director may want to shoot an interrogation, or a subject in any sort of imprisoned environment ( prison, psychological institution, etc ). This is easily achieved with the white cyc studios since the white void has no exits, no windows and no definition of dimensions so freedom is seen as absent.

 

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