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How Oners Created Tension in ‘Severance,’ ‘Adolescence’ and ‘The Studio’: ‘We Tried To Keep the Audiences Guessing’
How oners created tension in 'Severance,' 'Adolescence' and 'The Studio': 'We tried to keep the audiences guessing'
“We really wanted to convey a sense of anxiety and tension and panic and also create something that felt very fluid and very real,” says Adam Newport-Berra, director of photography on “The Studio.” The episode involved four long takes filmed with an ARRI Alexa 35 camera, mostly handheld, as well as with a Ronin gimbal (for shots when Rogen and Barinholtz are in the car), that were “stitched” together in VFX. The team behind “Adolescence,” Stephen Graham’s drama surrounding a boy (Owen Cooper) who is charged with the murder of a classmate, similarly took this audacious approach, filming all four episodes of the Netflix limited series as oners. Industrial Light & Magic VFX supervisor Eric Leven related that after a previs was created, it was clear that the sequence, as envisioned, couldn’t be shot as a real oner — at least not on a TV budget.
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