By Playing With Visual Styles, ‘Landscapers,’ Starring Olivia Colman, Peels Back Layers of Truth About Love and Murder

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In the early aughts, an English couple, Christopher and Susan Edwards, were found guilty of the 1998 double homicide of Susan Edwards’ parents. However, for years after, the Edwards’ pr…

) and developed a relationship with Susan’s solicitor. While they “were very keen to be as nuanced and fair and accurate as we could,” Sharpe says, they also wanted to be “as respectful of the perpetrators as we are hopefully of the victims and indeed the police.”

In order for the show to really dive into that theme, Sharpe and Sinclair wanted to bring the audiences into their protagonists’ worlds and their minds.

Sharpe shifts the visual style of the show accordingly to allow some of Susan’s influences to affect the show itself. In police interrogation scenes, he and his team used deep blacks “to represent an absence of information, like key details that are missing,” he points out. “This very private truth that Susan and Chris came to believe in is suddenly under the scrutiny of not just all the characters in the show, but also all of us.

“Landscapers” shot in an East London studio during the COVID-19 pandemic, which meant production kept as many sets contained as possible, and simply adjusted lighting rigs and gear as needed to capture the different styles. “Even the scene on the Eurostar was actually shot by bringing a Eurostar carriage to the studio because that just made more sense somehow, practically. We had already been using back-projection and certain analog techniques in the world of the show,” he reveals.

 

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