“Succession” assembled pretty much every major cast member – past and present – for the funeral of Logan Roy, and that posed a unique challenge for director Mark Mylod when it came to covering all the actors in a limited window of availability.
His solution? Shoot it like a multi-cam comedy with lots of cameras and a long, extended take.“With those hyper-emotional scenes, there’s just a trust that’s involved,” Mylod said in the behind-the-scenes video for the episode. “The challenge was getting the right combination in the church of the epic and the intimate, and a very real logistical challenge of just getting it all shot.
We had a huge page count in the church and a very, very limited availability. But it meant that we had to shoot, even by our standards – and we can shoot quite fast sometimes – but with our normal two-camera way of shooting, there was just no way we could get through this vast page count with so many incredibly important beats unless we did something extreme.”Mylod then pulled from his early work as a director to come up with a way to cover everyone and everything properly.“The solution was for me to return to my early directing days.
I would do multi-camera sketch shows and even a big live variety show with eight cameras and lots of outside broadcast feeds, and the training for that for me was being able to shoot with a lot of cameras to cover a lot of ground very quickly,” he said.The filmmaker revealed that from the moment Logan’s casket is brought into the church up through all the eulogies is all one take, which they ran multiple times.
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