The Acolyte cinematographer Chris Teague caught up with Comic Book to discuss the making of the show, touching on a couple of key locations on the show, the endless tracts of outer space and the metropolitan bustle of Coruscant. First he discussed outer space.
“That was honestly one of the more challenging environments I feel like, because what do you want to make it look like? Space. I looked at a lot of references. I looked at movies, I looked at real images from space, and we did a lot of testing in our lighting. And I initially thought I would go with something that was a bit of a harder light and it didn’t quite play the way we wanted it to.”
“We realized, you need a lot of room to create a sense of space because space is infinite and you’re actually in reality working inside this box of a stage, so there’s a lot of trickery that goes into creating the right quality of light to make it feel like it’s coming from infinitely far away and make the audience not think too much about it. So yeah, it took a lot of testing, a lot of staring at the screen and squinting your eyes and being like, ‘Does that feel real? Do we believe that or what?'”
Next, the challenges of Coruscant, a familiar environment to Star Wars fans shown in a different era.
“I found it to be that one was challenging for me because again, I love the originals and I wanted Coruscant to have a little bit of texture to it, and typically when you see it, it’s just sort of perfectly shiny and pristine and clean. And obviously … it should be, it is that kind of place. But we also wanted to make sure it fit into our show. So there was a lot of work and working with the art department just to figure out how to get the right amount of texture and tonality there so that everything felt like it was tactile. You could reach out and touch those sets, that they weren’t just all fabrication or a digital creation or something like that.”
- Hardcover Book
- Córdova, Zoraida (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 336 Pages - 08/27/2024 (Publication Date) - Random House/Star Wars (Publisher)
