Behind the Single Shots from Seth Rogen's Apple Series The Studio

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It's time to go behind the scenes of the Apple TV+ comedy series The Studio created by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg!  The Studio Cast:   Seth Rogen, Catherine O'Hara, Kathryn Hahn, Ike Barinholtz and Chase Sui Wonders  Stream The Studio now on Apple TV+!

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00:00Sound speed. Background.

00:02Seth and Evan have ambitiously decided to shoot most of the show as oners.

00:08Each scene as being a one continuous take.

00:11There's a certain, like, level of difficulty to long takes.

00:14By the end of each scene, be like, do we 100% have it for sure?

00:17Because if we're wrong, we are screwed.

00:19Gotta focus. It's Griffin Millis here and Patty's MIA.

00:23CEO showing up unannounced.

00:25This is going down, Matt. It's going down.

00:27That is so thrilling as an actor because it feels like every scene you're doing then is a play.

00:33My first day, I think we did 16 or 18 takes.

00:36You know, they were so nice about it.

00:37So don't worry, you're gonna blow lots of takes. It's okay.

00:39It's a singular kind of energy that you're following.

00:41And so the idea of it all being, again, one camera, one take, it made for a more cohesive thing.

00:47Envisioning the scene as it is on the page and how we can best convey it.

00:52Oftentimes that means making it as difficult as we possibly can

00:55in order to make the most interesting shot.

00:57It's unchained. It could go anywhere. It's like dancing like a tight wire.

01:01The cameras never settles. It's always alive and moving.

01:05It just makes all that much more rewarding when you get it.

01:09When you hear that big laugh, when you hear cut.

01:12I think it makes it funnier because it adds to the overall tone of the show.

01:16These people are under like crushing stress, running around like chicken with their head cut off.

01:20I think we were able to infuse it with this style and it's as funny as anything that we've done.

01:25Cut!

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