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“#How to make a Marvel series<\/a><\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The Canadian director of ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ series talks about the challenges and benefits of making ‘a six-hour movie’\n <\/div>\n
\n Ottawa native Kari Skogland has been directing television since 1994, including episodes of The Handmaid\u2019s Tale, The Walking Dead, and The Borgias. But The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the Marvel limited series, wasn\u2019t a completely typical TV directing experience. Most drama shows in the U.S. use multiple directors throughout a season, which allows one episode to be prepared while another is being filmed. But Skogland directed all of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The sixth and final episode, debuting on the Disney+ streaming service on Friday, was the culmination of a shooting schedule that was grueling even before it was lengthened by the COVID-19 pandemic: \u201cI obviously just made it part of my life,\u201d Skogland told Maclean\u2019s<\/em> when asked about the work it requires to direct an entire series.<\/p>\n

Unlike a similarly big-budgeted show like The Mandalorian, whose last eight episodes were directed by seven different people, Kevin Feige\u2019s Marvel Studios has elected to go with the single-director policy for all the shows it produces for Disney: Skogland\u2019s counterparts include Matt Shakman on WandaVision and Kate Herron on the upcoming Loki, and, like them, she\u2019s credited as an executive producer on the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think when you direct all six, you become one of the authors,\u201d she says. On a typical show, \u201cit\u2019s hard to author it because you\u2019re not informed by what happ<\/a>ened before, and you can\u2019t steer the ship to where it\u2019s going. You\u2019re just doing your little piece of the puzzle. You can\u2019t adjust or react to something that happened in an earlier scene, because you weren\u2019t there. So, I feel like it\u2019s a difficult job to come in as a guest director, because you by definition just don\u2019t have all the information. You\u2019re always playing catch-up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Skogland also thinks that the continuity of having one director is good for the actors. \u201cSeeing a new face every couple of weeks is unsettling if you\u2019re trying to discover a character and actualize it,\u201d she says. In The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, she was able to work with such familiar Marvel faces as Anthony Mackie (the Falcon), Sebastian Stan (the Winter Soldier) and Daniel Br\u00fchl (the treacherous Baron Zemo) to plan out how their characters would evolve as the show went on:\u00a0 \u201cIt gave them the confidence to try stuff, and gave me the confidence to allow us to bust through different doors in order to discover where we wanted to sit tonally, and where we wanted to take each character, because I was part of the whole process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was the first Marvel Studios limited series to enter production, so it was a different experience for a team accustomed to making feature films. While each series is what Skogland calls \u201ca six-hour movie,\u201d telling a complete story that pays off with a big action sequence near the end, they\u2019re able to use the extra time to develop the characters in ways that can\u2019t happen in a feature.<\/p>\n

In an action movie, Skogland explains, \u201cyou\u2019ve got a very clear end game<\/a> that you have to get to, and so if the characters veer off that path, you feel like you\u2019re out in the wasteland somewhere, and they\u2019re not doing their job to save the world.\u201d But in the next-to-last episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, there was little action, and the characters spent most of their time having conversations. When the action starts up again in the finale, Skogland says, \u201cwe\u2019re coming at the next beat, the next story plot, with much more thoughtful and experienced characters who have now come to conclusions as a result of what\u2019s happened,\u201d and that makes the action more meaningful than it might be in a two-hour movie.<\/p>\n

One way The Falcon and the Winter Soldier resembles a typical movie, though, is the aspect ratio. Instead of shooting it to fit our TV screens, Skogland and her crew chose the 2.35:1 \u201cScope\u201d aspect ratio that has been used for most of Marvel\u2019s features. Skogland says that this extra-wide format \u201cgave us a framing and a particular look that gave it the filmic qualities that we wanted. Because it really needed to be a Marvel movie on what we think of as a smaller screen\u2026 but honestly, in our homes, they\u2019re all big screen.\u201d And while we may currently be watching the show with black bars at the top and bottom of our TV screens, that may not be the case if TVs get wider or more adjustable in the future: \u201cWe wanted to future-proof it for all kinds of other formats. We don\u2019t necessarily know what they\u2019re going to be.\u201d
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