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Filming ‘Adolescence’: How the Netflix Series Pulled Off One-Shot Episodes Without Stitching Takes Together
"Adolescence" cinematographer Matthew Lewis breaks down how he filmed the series' distinctive one take episodes.
Netflix’s “Adolescence” is a four-part limited series that uses one continuous shot per episode to create intense emotion as it follows 13-year-old schoolboy Jamie Miller, played by newcomer Owen Cooper, who is arrested on the suspicion of murdering his classmate. The action unfolds in real time, from the police conducting an early morning raid, taking him in for questioning and interrogating him to finding out what really happened to his classmate, and did he do it? We were originally going to take off and fly and stay up in the air, but they thought it would be a nice beat to go back and find Stephen Graham at the end of the scene, so we had a couple of days to work that out, but we got it.
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