Warning, spoilers. It is recommended that you watch The Last of Us Episode 5 before you continue reading this article.
Adapted from the famous video game of the same name, The Last of Us series continues to be a hit week after week with packed and emotional episodes, such as the fifth episode that won the public.
Titled “Endure and Survive,” this fifth chapter is an epic nighttime fight scene featuring protagonists Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), their companions in trouble Sam (Keavon Woodard) and Henry (Lamar Johnson), and Kathleen. (Melanie Lynskey) and her minions, who rule Kansas City with an iron fist against a terrifying horde of infected.
This incredible sequence, which shows Colossus for the first time, impressed many viewers with both its beauty and violence. The protagonists find themselves in a cul-de-sac on the outskirts of Kansas City, and they have to face dangers from all sides, giving the scene a lot of intensity.
The action scene of episode 5 took a long time to prepare
And the time it took to box this famous sequence: exactly four weeks! This series of battles between our heroes, Catelyn’s militia, and the infected took four weeks to shoot at night in Calgary, Canada against a massive and expensive outdoor set.
Therefore, the production team had to create fifteen dilapidated houses and place several dilapidated cars in a huge space. It was also necessary to create a chasm to let out a horde of infected, ready to devour everything in its path.
And the biggest difficulty on this stage was lighting it! According to cinematographer Ben Bolter, it is “The most difficult sequence towards the light in all of life”. He trusted me SlashFilm which his team created A completely new lighting systemcapable of gusting up to 160 km/h.
“This new lighting solution consisted of four huge grids of a hundred lamps, without fabric, so the wind could only pass through them. In total, we had four hundred of these lights on these huge cranes hanging from the set, which gave us a soft atmosphere, but without any fabric.”Ben Bolter explained.
These grids of lights placed on huge cranes were accompanied by other smaller grids of LEDs that surrounded every set. “like a football stadium”, which covered the cast and avoided the problem experienced by another HBO series. Very often, Game of Thrones has been criticized for its night scenes, which were considered too dark.
Its spin-off “Dragon House” was entitled to the same reflection, especially in its seventh episode, which was deemed “unwatchable” by viewers due to its apparent lack of brilliance.
Cinematographer Ben Bolter shared some set photos on his Twitter account to show the magnificence of this unique lighting system and how his team worked with the required lighting.
Translation: “The problem was the weather. Calgary is known for strong wind, rain and snow, so we needed a lunar solution that could withstand it. My gaffer and I settled on a lighting grid, 400 bi-color LED tubes 182 cm, in grids on 4 cranes that let the wind.
The impressive rig developed by Ben Bolter’s teams made it possible to accurately light the action sequences of Episode 5 so that the audience can appreciate this huge nighttime spectacle between the infected, Catelyn’s militia and our hero. And the result is more successful.
Episodes 1-5 of The Last of Us are available on Prime Video.
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