It feels like it's only been out for a few days, and everyone, including me, is raving about The Studio on Apple TV+. It's an inside look at Hollywood via a satirical comedy television series created by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, along with Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory, and Frida Perez. The series stars Rogen as Matt Remick, the head of Continental Studios, and follows his attempts to save the floundering company amidst rapid changes in the film industry. It's a pretty relevant watch for our readers! One of the things I've been admitting about the show is how many oners they shoot! In the pilot, there are a ton of long takes, and in the second episode, the whole story is built on getting an oner. Recently, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are on a soon-to-be-released episode of The Filmmaker Toolkit podcast where they talked about why they're shooting long takes. We already knew the series was inspired by Robert Altman's The Player, which opens with an 11-minute shot. But that was just the opening idea for them. “If you’re making something about Hollywood, to do something technically difficult asserts your position as someone who has any right to be speaking about this stuff,” Rogen said. “‘The Player does that. He’s doing one of the hardest things you can do, and now he’s gonna go make fun of movies for the next two hours. But he’s clearly doing it from the position of someone who understands every intricacy and...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 27 March