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DARK TIMES The day-for-night shot (above) proved one of the most satisfying to work on, from a VFX standpoint
finish the job,” he notes. “It’s better to not have green costumes on a green screen, but it does happen.” Another interesting sequence that required the attention of the VFX team came in episode 7, Flipping the Pieces , which features a series of flashbacks showing Mabel’s relationship with her father. It opens with a scene carrying Mabel back to childhood – and it was down to Maynard to blend the past and present locations seamlessly. “They shot that scene with two different camera takes,” Maynard says. “Although, it wasn’t shot on motion control, so we had to go through and track each side of the A and B plate, then do a matte painting and project that onto the other plate. “It was very difficult; the rooms were not the same, neither was the lighting. This meant a lot of cut and paste from one take to the other, in order to make it a seamless blend.” Among his other favourite shots on Season 2, Maynard recalls a day for night in episode 8 with fondness, where the filmmakers shot a daytime pan-down from the roof of the building. Plus, an early moment from the series in which Amy Schumer, playing a fictionalised version of herself, enters the Arconia’s elevator. “There was some light reflection
NO ROOM FOR ERROR Removing pesky reflections can be a tricky task, not least in moments like the shot of Amy Schumer below, where the eye is drawn to light reflecting from her sunglasses over her sunglasses, so we had to take that out,” says Maynard. “It was fun, if a little tricky.” Maynard and the VFX team worked across the ten episodes between February and June this year: a more-than-palatable schedule for the fast-paced realm of television productions. “With most of the stuff I work on, I only see very small snippets; so I have no context for the rest of the show,” he says. “I still haven’t watched the second season yet; I have been waiting for them all to air so I can go through and binge it properly,” he adds. Watch Season 2 of Only Murders in the Building on Hulu or Disney+
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Only Murders in the Building won three Creative Arts Emmys: Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Programme; Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series (Nathan Lane); and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series and Animation.
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