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The camera precedes Winters as he runs, catching him first in wide shot and then in a tight close-up of his face. Dick Winters (Damian Lewis) hunched over to avoid being shot as he runs down a long trench. The first major fighting sequence occurs in Episode 2, which was shot by Adefarasin and directed by Richard Loncraine.
“It gives a staccato effect to panning shots, and it pixilates explosions,” Ransom elaborates. Reducing the shutter angle has the effect of making action sequences punchier. Ransom estimates that 90 percent of these scenes were shot with 45- or 90- degree shutters, a technique that Janusz Kaminski used in his Oscar-winning work on Private Ryan. The majority of the combat footage was shot handheld. There were exceptions, of course, when it was important to have the height of a crane or to be able to manipulate the camera into certain positions.” By using a crane - in effect, stepping back and seeing things in context - you make it too objective. “That meant experiential for the audience as well.
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“I think Steven wanted the series to reflect the American soldier’s subjective experience,” theorizes Frankel, who was one of eight directors on the project. There were a few other ground rules: minimal use of cranes, German POV shots and slow motion. “He didn’t want to beautify war.” The crew dollies past actors positioned in front of a bluescreen backing. “Steven didn’t want to get into the long-lens, high-speed, backlit feel, because that would have been too romantic,” Ransom explains. The latest post-production techniques were used to get a truly authentic look the show’s 35mm footage was scanned as 2K digital data that was color-timed at Kodak/Cinesite’s digital mastering lab in London (see 'Virtual Coloring' at the bottom of this article). “A much-used phrase was: ‘Like dropping a documentary unit into the past.’ That was the approach.” “ that same kind of heightened contrast and lowered saturation,” affirms Adefarasin. The producers wanted the same type of realistic look and feel that Spielberg brought to Saving Private Ryan ( AC Aug. They shot simultaneously, and each had their own crew. Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Remi Adefarasin, BSC ( Elizabeth, The House of Mirth) and Canadian cinematographer Joel Ransom, CSC ( The X-Files, Harsh Realm) split the 10 hour-long dramas between them. Production on the 10 episodes, all of which were shot in England with the exception of a few scenes in Switzerland, began in April 2000 and wrapped eight months later.
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When Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg decided to produce a TV miniseries that would honor the hundreds of thousands of “citizen soldiers” without whom World War II could not have been won, they turned to Ambrose’s book.Īt a cost of $120 million, Band of Brothers is the most expensive original programming venture in HBO’s history, as well as its most ambitious. As members of the 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, they were among the first American paratroopers trained for the war. Ambrose in his nonfiction bestseller of the same title. “A much-used phrase was: ‘Like dropping a documentary unit into the past.’īand of Brothers focuses on the men of Easy Company, immortalized by historian Stephen E. That was the moment when I felt what the horror of battle must be like.” His instinct was, ‘Oh God, they’re shooting at me.’ Needless to say, we had to cut. The camera operator was supposed to follow the action, but as he started to move forward he became so alarmed that he hid behind the actors.
“At one point a soldier got hit and another guy ran out to rescue him. Blanks sound as loud and scary as the real thing, especially when you’re seeing men go down and the officers are still sending more in. There was a German machine gun high up in a church tower, and our guys were like fish in a barrel. Recalling a particularly harrowing sequence, director David Frankel says, “I was running with the camera operators as our guys charged a German-held village. The firepower was so intense at times - and the danger seemed so real - that even members of the crew forgot they were making a movie. soldiers from their training in America through their first year of combat in Europe. HBO’s World War II miniseries Band of Brothers transports viewers to the front lines in brutally realistic fashion as it follows a single company of U.S. Some pictures may be additional or alternate. This article originally appeared in AC, Sept. HBO’s intense 10-part miniseries, shot almost entirely in England, examines global conflict from the foot soldier’s perspective.