Editing Neverwhere (section)

== Background ==
The idea for the story came from a conversation between Gaiman and Henry about a possible television series. Henry suggested a story with tribes of homeless people in London. Gaiman was initially reluctant to commit, as he feared that making the homeless appear "cool" might cause more young people to attempt to emulate the characters, but decided that the effect could be avoided by making the story more removed from reality.<ref>Interview on the UK VHS Release of ''Neverwhere''</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/11/29/neil-gaiman-returns-to-neverwhere-and-graveyard-book-movie/#/0 |title=Neil Gaiman returns to 'Neverwhere' (and 'Graveyard Book' movie?) |date=29 November 2011 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |author=Geoff Boucher}}</ref>

''Neverwhere'' received some criticism for its appearance. One major problem lay in the original plan to shoot on video (for budgetary reasons), and then later "[[filmizing|filmise]]" the footage to make it look as if it had been shot on film.<ref name='dvdbits' /> For this reason, the programme had been lit and shot in a manner appropriate to a film-based production, but the decision to apply the filmisation process was later reversed. In addition to what some considered the old-fashioned appearance of un-filmised video,<ref name=dvdbits /> the lighting set up with film in mind appeared garish and unsubtle on the more clinical medium. Gaiman himself commented that the loss of quality resulting from multi-generational VHS copies actually improved the appearance in this respect.<ref name=dvdbits />