DEFINITION September 2018

SHOOT STORY | VAN I TY FA I R

T h e g i rl c a n’t h elp i t

ITV Drama has produced a feast for our televisions with a seven-episode retelling of Vanity Fair

WORDS JULI AN M ITCHELL / PICTURES ITV DRAMA

I TV’s drama offering is on the rise again with a new adaptation of WilliamMakepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair . Production company Mammoth Screen has made this episodic for ITV and Amazon Video but how is it different from any other British made period drama? DOP Ed Rutherford was sent the script while he was still shooting another ‘of the time’ dramas, Victoria . “You could tell by the script, the way it was written, the projection of character, the sense of the epoch. We’re talking about 1815 to 1823, we’re on the edge of the industrial revolution with all that social change about to happen, so a gender protagonist story was extremely exciting. James Strong the director certainly didn’t want a period drama in the sense that you might expect previously of terrestrial TV shows. It would be contemporary visual storytelling.”

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