Loki season 2 cinematographer Isaac Bauman shares his favorite Kang variant, crafting the look of the TVA, and how he set the new Loki season apart.
Summary In Loki season 2, the titular character is dealing with the repercussions of He Who Remains being killed and the ensuing chaos in the TVA. Loki, along with TVA allies Mobius, HunterB-15, and O.B., search for a way to keep the timelines safe even as others within the TVA want to keep the status quo of pruning branching timelines.
Can you talk a little bit about the creative process? You're working with several directors throughout the season, and it still maintains this cohesive look, especially over different eras and time periods. Isaac Bauman: Season 1 had a very specific look, I think the main thing we changed — I like to say that we changed everything, so there wasn't much that carried over. Technically, there may have been a couple things, but really, there weren't. At the same time, I copy-pasted the approach to season 1, because the way I saw it, the approach to season 1 wasn't any specific technique or aesthetic or look or anything like that.
So, I was like, "Well, what if the show looked like it was shot at that time, more modern, and it's kind of large format-y, and a little bit softer lighting, and it's modernized, but it is a modernized version of that cellular oId film.
For example, in the 1800s, one of the things that you see all the time are these portraits of people that are really blurry and smudgy, and kind of desaturated, so we used longer focal lengths. In the TVA, we're always on the super wide lenses, but then in the 1800s, you'll notice suddenly, it's a lot of longer, more telephoto lenses, so that the background just gets more swirly and distorted, and the edges are less clean. It was the same with every time period.
In this last episode, I felt like there was an homage to Back to the Future with the miniatures, the way that O.B. kind of describes the miniatures not being to scale. Did you draw any inspiration from any other film or TV shows for your work on Loki season 2?
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