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Los Angeles Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Go inside the maze of ‘Adolescence's' most technically complex episode
It's a good thing that 'Adolescence' and 'The Studio' aren't competing head to head for boldly filming every episode as one continuous shot: It'd be like comparing apples to oranges. The Netflix limited series and Apple TV+ half-hour series are both favored to win Creative Arts Emmys for cinematography. But while Apple TV+'s Hollywood satire instills high anxiety, Netflix's psychological crime drama, created by Jack Thorne and star Stephen Graham, which explores misogynist violence and cyberbullying, thrums with dread. The four-episode series finds 13-year-old Jamie (Owen Cooper) arrested for the murder of classmate Katie (Emilia Holliday) and progressively reveals the tragic fallout. The continuous-shot technique, with the lightweight, unconventional Ronin 4D camera, puts us right beside the characters. We're along for the ride, following them and surveying the surroundings with documentary-style realism. 'The camera is an exact mirror of what the characters are going through at any time,' said cinematographer Matthew Lewis. 'And that's really critical to making a one-shot feel like it is part of the language of the show and not a gimmick. For the audience, it acts as a remedy for our terrible attention spans by not cutting.' Director Philip Barantini wanted it to be totally immersive: 'By throwing the audience on a journey in real time for one hour, nonstop, and then pulling them back out again, we wanted [them] to feel like they were really experiencing it and living it, and they can't take their eyes off the screen.' Achieving this ambition was a massive undertaking, requiring three weeks of rehearsals and meticulous planning in terms of logistics, timing and flow. Shooting primarily at a studio facility in England's West Yorkshire region, each episode took five days to complete with a minimum of two takes per day. Coordinating the blocking from one room to another while maintaining a video feed so everyone could see what was happening on camera the whole time was a daily concern. Episode 2, for which cinematographer Lewis was nominated, was the most technically complex. That's because it takes place in Jamie's mazelike school, where detectives Bascombe (Ashley Walters) and Frank (Faye Marsay) go searching for the murder weapon and motive. This was filmed at the nearby Minsthorpe Community College secondary school, with 350 students wrangled from room to room during summer vacation. 'Just in terms of the geography, the location that we span was worrying,' Lewis said. 'Initially, we were going to use a much larger area of that school, and then in rehearsing and walking through the space, there was too much to cover and not enough material to cover it. So then it was a redesign of the whole school in terms of the route that we take through it.' It was up to Thorne to rewrite the script to fit the new school route while peeling back the layers of what influenced Jamie. 'It was about the school's [institutional] chaos and how it failed him, and where Bascombe is taking us as we're trying to tell this story,' he explained. The three standout scenes are when Katie's grieving best friend, Jade (Fatima Bojang), attacks Jamie's friend, Ryan (Kaine Davis), for being part of the murder during a fire drill outside; Bascombe's pursuit of Ryan when he flees the school after being asked about the murder weapon; and the ethereal drone shot that concludes the episode, surveying the town and landing on a close-up of Jamie's dad, Eddie (Graham), who leaves flowers in honor of Katie at the murder site. 'The fire drill was a hard one to choreograph,' said Lewis, who operated the camera. 'So we're all moving backwards, and behind me there's a grip spotting me and gently moving aside kids getting in the way. And just when the camera has to rush sideways with Jade before she punches Ryan in the face, it's a quick move through gaps that we preformed in the crowd.' For the chase, Lewis passed the camera through a classroom window to operator Lee David Brown, who ran after the actors. Lewis hopped onto a tracking vehicle and followed the action on a street with stunt vehicles. He then got the camera back from Brown and followed the actors into the dead-end alley, with the camera going into handheld simulation mode. 'There's so much packed into such a small section, there's so much to go wrong,' Lewis added. 'And things did go wrong in other takes.' Meanwhile, the drone shot, which was the brainchild of director Barantini, started out as a typical flyover but evolved into a close-up of Eddie thanks to the urging of executive producer Toby Bentley, who wanted Graham in the episode. But first it needed testing. 'I mounted the camera to the underside of a drone that was being held by two grips,' added Lewis. 'Each of them had a side of the drone that came over my head. I clipped it into a mount underneath the drone.' It worked — once. Yet on the day of the shoot, wind prevented the drone from taking off. They had one more shot on the last day of shooting, but it was still too windy in the morning. 'And then in the afternoon, it was like the heavens parted,' Barantini said. 'It was the most beautiful day. So we did it. But we lost connection because it was too far away. So I sat in the monitor room sweating. And I got a call over the radio saying, 'We got it!' We came back and watched the footage and it's what you see in the episode.'
Yahoo
08-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘The Last of Us' Season 2 Trailer: Promises Broken and New Paths Roamed in Epic Return
Get those knapsacks and blunt objects ready because 'The Last of Us' Season 2 is about to take you on one hell of a journey. Headed to HBO and Max on April 13, the second installment in the hit post-apocalyptic TV series comes over two years after the first season aired, but looks to reward viewers for their patience with an epic season still centered around the relationship between Bella Ramsey's Ellie and Pedro Pascal's Joel, but also full of new characters played by Jeffrey Wright, Kaitlyn Dever, Young Mazino, Catherine O'Hara, and Joe Pantoliano. Watch the trailer for Season 2 below. 'The Last of Us' is based on the popular video game series of the same name, with Season 1 serving as a relatively faithful adaptation of the overarching plot of the first game and Season 2 set to do the same with 'Part II.' In fact, Wright is set to play the same role he originated in the game. The first season premiered in March 2023 to huge ratings, strong critical praise, and ultimately a number of awards, including eight wins at the Creative Arts Emmys, a SAG Award for Pascal, and recognition by the DGA and WGA. More from IndieWire 'The Studio' Trailer: Seth Rogen Tries to Cater to Auteurs and Calm Crazy Actors in Series Satire of Hollywood A-Listers Hulu's Binge-Worthy 'Deli Boys' Is a Chaotic Crime Caper: Review During the awards race that year, IndieWire spoke to the co-creator Craig Mazin on the vital element love plays to the plot. 'To the extent that it might start to feel iterative, all I can say is it's the problem — love is the problem,' he said. 'It's the problem now. It's the problem for all of us. And we don't like to think of it that way, but it is. The odds are that we all will do something beautiful and sacrificial and admirable because of love. And also, all of us are going to do something terrible because of love, something destructive or violent or cruel. Because we've invented a word for a part of us we have no control over.' That love seems to be tested with Season 2, as the relatively stable life Ellie and Joel have found in the community of Jackson, Wyoming is upended by the rising presence of infected clickers and a possible invading force led by Dever's Abby. Fans of the video game will know the key part she plays in the second half of the story between the makeshift father and daughter, though it's unclear how directly Mazin and co-creator Neil Druckmann (creator of the original game) will follow this plot and how much they will expand on it. The show has already been renewed for Season 3 and Mazin says a fourth isn't out of the question. Watch the trailer for Season 2 below. Best of IndieWire Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 56 Films the Director Wants You to See 'Song of the South': 14 Things to Know About Disney's Most Controversial Movie The 55 Best LGBTQ Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix Right Now
See - Sada Elbalad
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- See - Sada Elbalad
Emmys Set Date for 2025 Ceremony
Yara Sameh The 2025 Emmy Awards have a date. The 77th primetime ceremony will be held on Sunday, September 14, CBS and the Television Academy announced on Wednesday. The ceremony will air live throughout the mainland on CBS at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT. as well as streaming on Paramount+ (for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers). The 77th Emmys will also be available to watch on demand the next day for all Paramount+ users. It will once again take place at Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles' L.A. Live complex. That means that the two-night Creative Arts Emmys, which usually take place the weekend before the Primetime Emmys telecast, will be held on Saturday, September 6 and Sunday, September 7. Hosts and producers for the 77th Emmys telecast, as well as the Creative Arts events, will be announced in the future. The 77th Emmys nominations will be revealed on Tuesday, July 15, at 8:30 a.m. on the Television Academy's website. Here is the TV Academy's 2025 Emmys calendar: June 1, 2024 – May 31, 2025 Eligibility period for Emmy entries February 20 April 4 Entry deadline for Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards April 8 Deadline to apply for membership to guarantee voting eligibility for both rounds of the 77th Emmy competition and to secure member entry fee discount. Application(s) must be completed and paid for by this for current voting members to apply for hyphenate voting status and for Associate members to apply to switch to Active voting membership May 7 May 8 June 12 June 23 Nominations-round voting ends at 10 p.m. June 27 – July 7 Voting for peer group-specific top ten round panels (if applicable) July 15 Nominations announced July 29 Week of August 11 Final-round videos available for viewing August 18 Final-round voting begins August 27 Final-round voting ends at 10 p.m. September 6 and September 7 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards and Governors Gala September 14 77th Emmy Awards CBS Telecast and Governors Gala October 14 77th Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards
