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!

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
• David Rom’s IMDb
• David Rom’s website

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MZed – Education for Creatives
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