Ted Lasso Cinematography (with David Rom) GCS269
Emmy award-winning comedy series TED LASSO follows an American football coach as he helps a struggling London soccer team. Cinematographer David Rom comes on to explain how they turned Jason Sudeikis' successful shorts into a full blown TV series.
David and Go Creative Show host, Ben Consoli, discuss avoiding comedy visual stereotypes, fish-out-of-water cinematography style, pairing the Alexa LF with Tokina lenses, why they had to recreate the entire soccer field, and more!
What you will learn in this episode
- Avoiding comedy visual stereotypes (02:24)
- Translating Jason Sudeikis' shorts to a full series (04:54)
- Lighting a locker room with only overhead lighting (08:21)
- Approach to camera angle coverage (14:13)
- Fish out of water cinematography (15:46)
- Working with other cinematographers on a series (21:20)
- Using the Alexa LF paired with Tokina lenses (23:53)
- Challenges of shooting on location (27:32)
- Recreating the pitch soccer field (30:24)
- Shooting with such a shallow focus (37:28)
- Why collaboration is so important (39:14)
- "Panic attack" scene cinematic approach (40:45)
- And more!
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Show Links
- TED LASSO IMDb
- TED LASSO trailer
- TED LASSO on Apple TV+
- Large format cinematography in a small package: Tokina Vista lenses on Fujifilm GFX100
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