Tom Bacon is Head of Screen Rant's Star Wars coverage. Although he's now dedicated to Star Wars content, he's a lifelong fan of several other major franchises including Doctor Who and Marvel. You can find him on Twitter @TomABacon.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Screen Rant spoke to award-winning cinematographer Chris Teague about his tremendous work on The Acolyte, which culminated in the spectacular battle in episode 5. Set at the tail-end of the High Republic Era, roughly a century before the events of the Skywalker saga, The Acolyte is a murder mystery with a difference.
Chris Teague: I started as a cinematographer, mostly shooting independent features, and moved in TV maybe about seven or eight years ago and worked with Leslye for the first time on Russian doll. And that was an incredible experience, it was a real opportunity for me to kind of do something where the visual component of the show had, I felt like a huge part of was, it was a big element of the storytelling.
And then beyond that, there is this whole atmospheric world building component that is also important to any kind of project you work on, and to an exceptional level on a show like this. There's a lot for me to kind of get up to speed on in terms of really getting to know the Star Wars universe on a detailed and granular level; I have seen all the films and I've always been a fan, but to really kind of break it down and understand how these movies were created was a huge process for me.
Chris Teague Explains How The Planets Of The Acolyte Were Created Screen Rant: I believe you use a lot of hand-painted backdrops in The Acolyte. How did you integrate those seamlessly into your shots? Chris Teague: I mean, you know, in our, in our testing with the sabres, we realized that the look that we were developing for the camera had some challenges, particularly in the blue areas where a very saturated blue would sort of skew in a really strange way . And so we needed to kind of modify the look to protect for that blue and make sure it really came through as accurately as possible . So there was that component to it.
Screen Rant: How did the original trilogy influence the work you did on The Acolyte? Because I believe that was particularly important to influencing you? Chris Teague Discusses The Acolyte's Stunning Fight Choreography Screen Rant: On the subject of the fight choreography, how did you actually film some of those scenes?
Chris Teague: I guess to truly talk about the inspiration, I feel like Leslye might be the better person. To me, it felt like the goal of that cold open is to encapsulate everything that this show is about, which is which is to say it has these classic Star Wars elements. It's got the cantina, but then it also has this very important martial arts component. It has this mystery element, which is like the beginning of a Western, Butch Cassidy the Sundance Kid.
Screen Rant: How do you make each world look and feel distinctive, including on a lighting level? How do you handle each different planet? Chris Teague: That is like a cinematographer's dream , I feel like the the way the arc of that story parallels the changing of daylight over the course of the scenes means the light really takes an important role in the storytelling. Basically, I broke it down in the scripts to four different looks that transition us from day into night. And we did a lot of tests with colors and light levels.
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Why The Acolyte's Sith Lord Kept Turning His Lightsaber OffTom Bacon is Head of Screen Rant&039;s Star Wars coverage. Although he&039;s now dedicated to Star Wars content, he&039;s a lifelong fan of several other major franchises including Doctor Who and Marvel. You can find him on Twitter TomABacon.
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