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Previous spread: Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) is seated for
a meeting of the Council of Regents. This page, above: Mounted to a
stabilized head, the camera angles in for a scene in Episode 1 in which
John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) arrives on the shores of Osaka. Right:
Christopher Ross, BSC and the crew shoot a scene from Episode 2.
uses film clips to set the tone for the photographic style and editing approach.
For Shōgun, scenes from Apocalypse Now figured prominently,
as did The Revenant [AC Jan. '16] for its " rough-and-ready first-person
style, " says Ross. " It was about trying to create a robust masculinity and
savagery around Blackthorne, who's viewed as such an outcast.
" There are also elements of The Insider [AC June '00] in terms of political
intrigue and Macbeth [2015] in the way we wanted it to feel intrinsically
earthy, with the humans and environment enwrapped in one
another. We wanted to create some poetry and connection to nature
with the Japanese characters, who are more civilized and at one with
the universe. "
Total Immersion
Shōgun's 21-month shoot began in September 2021, when Ross was
coming off of the 2022 feature The Swimmers, which he shot with the
Sony Venice. " I loved the way it works in terms of highlights, and I liked
it combined with anamorphic lenses, so I was pretty sure that it was the
camera for Shōgun, " he says. Tests at William F. White International in
nearby Vancouver confirmed his belief.
" [Van Tulleken] and I talked about the granularity we wanted in the
wilderness images - the feeling of really being in nature, the smoke
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and the roughness of medieval life, " Ross continues. " I was drawn to the
Hawk class-X anamorphics, particularly for the softness and the falloff
of the wider lenses toward the edges of the frame. I thought that served
Blackthorne's first-person narrative well. "
Shooting a previous FX project, Trust, Ross learned that a 2.0:1 aspect
ratio was as wide as the network would go and they required a 4K
deliverable, so the production shot full 6K and cropped to 4K 2.0:1. " The
combination of the class-X and the Sony Venice allowed me to hit the
4K-resolution mandate of the 2.0:1 aspect ratio.
The production also carried a Sony FX3, which was used as a crash
camera and to shoot nature inserts, architectural elements and some
time-lapse material.
Throughout the shoot, the filmmakers maximized characteristics

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