“Deep Dive” is a in-depth podcast and video essay series with the stars, creators and crafts team behind an exceptional piece of filmmaking. For this edition, the IndieWire Crafts team partnered with HBO to take a closer look at the limited series “Watchmen,” and interviewed creator Damon Lindelof, and 10 members of his creative team to go behind the scenes of Episode 6, “This Extraordinary Being.”
“What is Hooded Justice’s origin story?” It was the question showrunner Damon Lindelof asked his “Watchmen” writers room early on in their reinvention of Alan Moore’s groundbreaking graphic novel. The answer to this question would become the basis of Episode 6 of “Watchmen,” “This Extraordinary Being,” one of the most formally bold 60 minutes of television ever made.
“For an episode like this to work,” Lindelof told IndieWire, “you need so many brilliant minds coming together and at any one time different people are taking the reins and steering the carriage.
“What is Hooded Justice’s origin story?” It was the question showrunner Damon Lindelof asked his “Watchmen” writers room early on in their reinvention of Alan Moore’s groundbreaking graphic novel. The answer to this question would become the basis of Episode 6 of “Watchmen,” “This Extraordinary Being,” one of the most formally bold 60 minutes of television ever made.
“For an episode like this to work,” Lindelof told IndieWire, “you need so many brilliant minds coming together and at any one time different people are taking the reins and steering the carriage.
- 8/17/2020
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
When Ava DuVernay was in the editing room moving toward a picture locked cut, working with temp music and sound effects, she and her “When They See Us” editors brought the four episodes to a place where the series was emotionally, tonally and story-wise working for the director. The sound, though, was far from finished. The sound editors needed to continue to build out the ambient, effects and foley tracks, composer Kris Bower needed to replace the temp tracks, while re-recording mixers Joe DeAngelis (dialog) and Chris Carpentar (sound effects) had to bring everything together into harmony for the final mix.
There were times in creating that rich balance of layered sound that the film could have fallen out of calibration. That happened in one key scene in the fourth and final episode, where Korey Wise (Jharrel Jerome) imagines that he didn’t go into the Central Park the night...
There were times in creating that rich balance of layered sound that the film could have fallen out of calibration. That happened in one key scene in the fourth and final episode, where Korey Wise (Jharrel Jerome) imagines that he didn’t go into the Central Park the night...
- 8/26/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
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