Lighs in the collar

I think those lights could actually be the projector of a heads up display.

The whole point of the fish bowl helmets and the lights is so you can see the actors faces, they spent a lot of time in the suits, would you rather we just saw a bunch of people in modern space age outfits rambling on without us knowing who the hell was who ?

Likewise, the other crew members need to see the faces of the others. It just heightens communication of a group working together. I suppose they could interact with a heads up camera display of the communicating faces within the face plate, but then, that would be clumsy. I think the lights are the best solution--both real and for cinema. They said the same stuff about the Nostromo helmets. Maybe this is one place where continuity is direct.

Right. But the in-helmet lights are not necessarily the only solution. Looking at the trailer of Abyss, it seems like the faces are lit externally. In Leviathan a rather minimal lighting of the faces is used. Anyway, maybe it is about the continuity too, as Famished says. And maybe there is also some projection issue.

It is for medicinal purposes. Soothing weylight radiation therapy. Like Infrared the light is invisible to the human eye but the camera's photo receptor is sensitive in that frequency range and picks it up as yellow. I am more concerned about a crew that needs their names written across their forehead in magic marker. No wait I meant to say it's fiction and it was used so the audience can see who is acting their brains out the best.

I was guessing maybe they were for navigation in dark areas, but your explanations make more sense. A simple flashlight would probably be more effective for navigation. It's not going to be very helpful if the lights are shining upwards.

The advantage of the in-helmet light is also that while making the faces shine for the camera, in the dark the only thing actors see is their face reflection from the helmet. So it is a win-win.

I only mentioned a heads up display....because in the trailer we see 2 people running away with David behind them presumeably because of the panel around the screen.....or is that just the camera. iNCIDENTLEY is it me or doest the front guy in the centre picture look like Rod Gilbert lol? [img]http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/64/6217b378294e41a79eaadb6b2ce152a5/l.jpg[/img] [img]http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/154/8445ff03d2b345409ef371dfb6ad37d1/l.jpg[/img] [img]http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/56/09e713fcde564e43b01ae4e506937da1/l.jpg[/img]

Actually in that top pic.....look at all of the jagged rocks around the floor.....do you think they can get bigger but keep their shape in around 37 years time? Looks like the beginings of the LV-426 landscape......just erm....smaller lol.

With Clear helmets, you will need to be able to see faces, in fact, there was a old story (Heinlein perhaps?) where kids had wildly colorful helmet designs, and when a teacher made them go to a standard color scheme, the effectivness of the kids went way down as they could not look and tell who it was. Also, perhaps its a heads up display as some have said.