Managing your tone can be the hardest part. When adapting video games to television, you have to be conscious of the source material, while also finding ways to draw players into a world where they cannot create anything. This was the task given to the team behind Arcane: League of Legends. This Netflix show happens in the League of Legends universe and had to surmount all these obstacles to become one of the most popular shows across the globe. In order to do all of this, they had to balance a story that's rife with tragedy and trauma and find a tone that never felt too dour or dragged the story down. The premise of the show is, "Amidst the escalating unrest between the advanced, utopian city of Piltover and the squalid, repressed undercity of Zaun, sisters Vi and Jinx find themselves on opposing sides of a war over twisted ideologies and arcane technology." Learn how they balance it all with a video from Savage Books, and let's chat after you watch. (Some spoilers for Arcane ahead.) Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 3 January, 2022