All Behind the scenes articles
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Industry TrendsBehind The Scenes: Blitz
The director of 12 Years A Slave and Small Axe has created a historical aesthetic of a tragic and turbulent London, depicting lives subjected to a permanent black out, in Blitz, Steve McQueen’s new film based on authentic anecdotes and inspired by filmmaker archives of the era.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: How sound and vision get under the skin in Nickel Boys
Re-recording Mixer Tony Volante and Cinematographer Jomo Fray explain how they told a drama from the perspective of its lead characters.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: Anora
Semi-improvised, guerrilla-style filmmaking brings gritty realism to Sean Baker’s beleaguered love story.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: SFX and dynamic lighting merge worlds in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Tim Burton and Michael Keaton’s return to the fantasy horror comedy hit is lensed by Greek-Cypriot cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos. Adrian Pennington reports.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: Sharp editing gets the best from Slow Horses
The misfits of British intelligence return for a fourth outing with Robert Frost in the editor’s chair.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes - Worldbuilding in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Cinematographer Simon Duggan discusses the challenges in ensuring visual continuity for the prequel to the operatic road warrior saga Mad Max: Fury Road.
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Industry TrendsParis 2024: Dynamic studios and multilingual reporting to deliver games to 47 markets
Scott Young, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Sports, Europe, explains how on-the-ground coverage and dynamic studio setups are key to delivering Paris 2024 in 19 languages.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: The Acolyte goes old school to capture original Star Wars grit
The Acolyte looked to capture the handmade, analogue feel of the original Star Wars trilogy in a surprising departure from LED volumes.
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Industry TrendsMulti-format shoulder programming takes Centre Court at Wimbledon
As The Championships heads to its finals weekend, the host broadcast team reflects on providing expanded behind the scenes access, incorporating new drone footage and onboarding its first internet giant.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: Civil War
In Alex Garland’s action thriller cameras are a weapon of truth, writes Adrian Pennington.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: 3 Body Problem
The cinematographers behind Netflix sci-fi series explain why the sun was such an important element in the show’s VR game world and how they played the story’s fictional science straight down the line.
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: Silo
Award-winning Cinematographer David Luther had to draw on all his experience to help create a convincing backdrop for this dystopian short-story adaption. Adrian Pennington reports.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: Masters of the Air
Masters of the Air takes place over the skies of Nazi-occupied Europe and at the very least doesn’t flinch from the horrific conditions faced by men in metal tubes flying five miles above ground, writes Adrian Pennington.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes - Dune: Part Two
The highly-anticipated sequel to the epic Dune: Part One had the challenge of communicating the deeper narrative of the original novels all the while creating a standalone film, reports Adrian Pennington.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: After the Flood
Set in a fictional British town hit by devastating flooding, a timely new ITV1/ITVX mystery thriller generated some very specific challenges for the production crew, writes David Davies.
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Industry TrendsBehind the scenes: Moremi
Out of the pandemic came an African creative partnership that took an enduring Nigerian myth and turned it into an historic Disney animation. George Jarrett reports.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: The Zone of Interest
The cinematic adaptation of a Martin Amis novel juxtaposes mundane everyday life with the horror of Auschwitz using thermal vision and audio, among other narrative devices, reports Adrian Pennington.
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Industry TrendsBehind the Scenes: Occupied City
Steve McQueen’s new documentary juxtaposes the past with the present and breaks the traditional narrative style to bring the facts of the holocaust into the light, writes Adrian Pennington.
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