Most haunted

[David H]

Is there a sensible reason most scenes are filmed in black and white, or is it just a lot cheaper? Do they think they're creating a special atmosphere perhaps (as if ghosts prefer low lighting...)?

[missjef]

isnt it because they just turn the lights out? who would want to watch it if it was all in daylight and not underground and stuff?

[David H]

That would be very effective if you were actually there, but you totally lose the effect on TV as they still have to use a camera and just pick it up perfectly clearly but in monochrome.
It's an effect you can recreate just by watching something made in the 50s... Hardly original for those of us who grew up watching nothing else.

[missjef]

i do see your point, it does seem a bit cheaply done when on tv.

[Backdrifter]

I haven't watched it because it looks like rubbish to me, but from the clips & trailers I've seen isn't it just night-vision film, because presumably they have the lights off?

[David H]

It certainly seems like it, though torches seem to be pointed at things as well which would seem to ruin the principle.
So if it's filmed in the dark, what's their 'motivation' for it I wonder? Are the ghosts more visible without light interference maybe? Not that we've ever seen one of course but..

[Backdrifter]

Seems pretty obvious to me - it's just to give their stupid show some 'atmosphere'.

[Backdrifter]

...as you, indeed, intimated in your question.