The Acolyte series has a villain that for now is making quite an impact, now, they have revealed the creation process behind it.
We have few details about the big villain of The Acolyte, but we know that he wears black, hides his face and has a red lightsaber. Therefore, many consider him a Sith. Now, Chris Teague, director of photography for the Star Wars series, has revealed:
“That intro was one of the things we probably had the most conversations about about how to do this and how to make it look good. You’re really threading a needle, where you want to do something that has the appropriate level of seriousness, but without feeling too magical, or like, without winking at some other creature, or some other thing that you’ve seen before in a movie. There are so many things out there that people will potentially associate them with. And so it was, it was extremely difficult… We played with many ideas.”
“One of the things we ended up playing with, and that I thought was very successful, is filming some of the movement backwards, basically having the performer move backwards and then reversing the footage in post-production so that the movements have a little more intensity of an unnatural feeling for them. And it’s a very subtle effect when he floats to the ground during his introduction, we filmed it both ways.”
“We actually filmed it in a forward motion with him floating down and also with his kind of backwards slide and then reversing the footage. And it’s subtle, but it creates a little bit of that kind of weird effect. And that was a word we used a lot. How do you get that feeling that this seems real but it doesn’t seem quite right to me? And so, it’s disturbing, I mean, that was the goal for us.”
Episode 5 will have a lot of action.
Chris Teague, director of photography for The Acolyte series, went on to say: “It’s just non-stop action. The action is incredibly challenging to shoot and execute. There are so many takes involved; there’s a lot of specific choreography involved. Therefore, an incredible amount of planning and coordination between departments is needed. And the other thing too, when you create that much action in a short amount of time, there’s a real concern that you’re going to burn out your audience.”
“And so it became very important that every action sequence had its own pace, every character had its own style, and every fight had its own sense of stakes and its own power dynamic. And I think that really comes through in episode 5 of The Acolyte series in a way that builds the tension beautifully and feels like this attack and in a really intense way… Even though we’re a Star Wars show, we’re not a Star Wars show. blockbuster movie, so we don’t do it. “I have the time and resources that could come along with having a bigger budget movie.”
“So there’s a convenience and efficiency with which you need to approach these things, and that means this really incredible planning and coordination between all the departments and really collaborating with the action designer Chris Clark Cown and the stunt coordinator and figuring out the best methods of execution and understand how much of this will be the second drive and how much will be the main drive. At the same time, how do we shoot this in a way that shows it to the fullest. dynamic and exciting way possible, and highlights the incredible fight choreography of all these artists?”
You can watch The Acolyte series on Disney Plus with this link.
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David Larrad
He studied Audiovisual Production of Shows and Television at the Foundation for Audiovisual Education. She completed a Master of Graphic and 3D Design.
