HBO - Chernobyl anyone?

[Amerikuracana]

fuck yes
Stunning Visuals Add Gripping Detail and Drama to Chernobyl

Technicolor’s role in dramatizing the nuclear disaster was to make it look and feel disturbingly real for the viewer.

• Picture Post for the new five-part HBO miniseries was completed by Technicolor London, with BAFTA-winning colorist Jean-Clément Soret providing the grade.
• Technicolor’s proprietary VFX pulls software, Pulse, handled the vast amount of data required of today’s high-end episodic content.

“No piece of dramatized non-fiction has ever felt this authentic.” That is the conclusion reached by one Independent reviewer about Chernobyl, a new drama exploring what went wrong during the 1986 nuclear disaster and the human toll it took. Chernobyl is full of gripping detail and stunning visuals that at times make it shift-in-your-seat real for the viewer.

Technicolor provided Picture Post with color finishing by Jean-Clément Soret for the new five-part miniseries event from Sister Pictures, part of a co-production with Sky and HBO. With the show shot in UHD on an Arri Alexa camera, the amount of data handled by Technicolor London and Pulse, Technicolor’s proprietary VFX and DI pulls software, was vast.

“These types of shows often are done by the same people as feature films – be it the writers, DOPs, editors or colorists – and there are now bigger budgets than previously, so we have the opportunity to reproduce high-end content for all genres,” Soret explains – referencing the fact that today’s episodic content requires the same attention to detail and quality as big-screen features.

With a brief to be respectful to the aesthetic of the era of the Soviet Union in the eighties, Soret had the chance to use the archives as inspiration. “We wanted to improve on the color palette from the archives whilst making it look high-end, so we were treading a fine line between the temptation of desaturation,” says Soret. “This was particularly true of sunny exterior scenes, where we were careful not to make them too warm, instead keeping them quite cold to enhance the effect.”

He adds: “Obviously with the subject matter, it had to be a bit scary, so you avoided warm tones. There are lots of scenes lit with sodium lighting and neon, which we didn’t want to make too flattering. It would have been very easy to put a wash of green or yellow on all the scenes, but we resisted that to keep it inside a certain realism.”

Chernobyl is available to watch weekly on Sky Atlantic in the UK and HBO, with episodes also available on-demand. https://www.technicolor.com/news/stu...rama-chernobyl

Jesus do I order HBO to see the rest of this series? They had a free preview for the first episode. I'm tempted to encourage well made television. Dammit

 

[jabba the punk]

Fuck, this shit is great and dreadful. I feel like I’m getting radiation poisoning just from watching this mini series. So good!

 

[Yoel Bromero]

.........i feel retarded.

This show is right in my wheelhouse and even though it keeps showing up on my homescreen I ignored bc zombies.

Thought it was another zombie thing bc of how the description is worded.

I feel so fucking stoopid.

Be back after watching smh

 

[TribalDrumz]

Jesus do I order HBO to see the rest of this series? They had a free preview for the first episode. I'm tempted to encourage well made television. Dammit

Only 5 episodes so not sure if worth the subscription. Can maybe find other ways to watch.

 

[HARRISON_3]

I tend to watch movies over and over again, but never shows typically.

I've seen each episode of Chernobyl multiple times.

 

[mrsenor]

good show

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

reminds me of Hisashi Ouchi the guy who died of radiation poisoning that was brutal he was basically skinned/burned alive by the radiation and melted.

I can't even post the story because of the graphic pics worst way to die.

Never heard of that guy before now. Just read up on him and saw a couple of pictures. Jesus Christ, guy deserved a mercy killing very early on.

 

[Hoof Hearted]

I wish it was longer than 5 episodes. It's been really incredible television so far and also very scary. I would love a similar series on Fukushima.

This is a great documentary on Fukushima, well worth a watch.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Given the choice I would climb on a cross. Fuck rad poisoning.

I have a feeling someone being crucified would say to someone with radiation poisoning...

"Fuck.... at least you get to lay down."

 

[E Undead]

reminds me of Hisashi Ouchi the guy who died of radiation poisoning that was brutal he was basically skinned/burned alive by the radiation and melted.

I can't even post the story because of the graphic pics worst way to die.

Damn boy google pictures gave me nightmares

 

[Okajima]

This is a great documentary on Fukushima, well worth a watch.

I find it odd how the thumbnail is a picture of the refinery in Ichihara, nowhere near Fukushima.

 

[Cole train]

Jesus do I order HBO to see the rest of this series? They had a free preview for the first episode. I'm tempted to encourage well made television. Dammit

i can show you where to watch for free since its only 5 episodes

 

[WOW]

Excellent show, harrowing.

 

[Crawler89]

This show is deeply intense and brutal

But fucking amazing. It's a work of art. One of the best things put to tape

 

[Amerikuracana]

i can show you where to watch for free since its only 5 episodes

Send it please and thanks

 

[Cole train]

Send it please and thanks

will do later im busy atm

 

[Crocop42]

https://mashable.com/article/hbo-chernobyl-review/

This article isn't the one i was looking for, but it has the same idea.
They talk about why the show is so scary. How the way they film the radiation make it seem like a monster from a horror movie.
It makes sense. When the three guys in the scuba gear lights when out, it has the horror movie effect. Something similar to Jaws, or Jason from friday the 13th stalking them.

 

[JoeyJoeJoeJr]

That was a good read, thanks for sharing.

"It’s often stated that radiation has no taste, but the men who absorbed the highest doses at Chernobyl all reported a metallic taste in their mouths immediately upon exposure, so it seems that if the dose is high enough to kill you, you will definitely taste it. While every person’s body reacts slightly differently, the following is a good general indicator of the consequences of extreme doses of radiation.

Once exposed, nausea and vomiting will begin almost immediately, and within a short space of time your tongue and eyes will swell, followed by the rest of your body. You’ll feel weakened, as if the strength has been drained from you. If you’ve received a high dose of direct exposure - as in this scenario - your skin will blanche dark red within moments, a phenomenon often called nuclear sunburn. An hour or two after exposure, you’ll gain a pounding headache, a fever and diarrhoea, after which you’ll go into shock and pass out.

After this initial bout of symptoms, there’s often a latent period during which you’ll start to feel like you’re recovering. The nausea will recede, along with some swelling, though other symptoms will remain. This latent period varies in duration from case to case, and of course it depends on the dose, but it can last a few days. It’s cruel because it gives you hope, only to then get much, much worse. The vomiting and diarrhoea will return, along with delirium. An unstoppable, excruciating pain seethes through your body, from the skin down to your bones, and you’ll bleed from your nose, mouth and rectum. Your hair will fall out; your skin will tear easily, crack and blister, and then slowly turn black.

Your bones will rot, forever destroying your ability to create new blood cells. As you near the end, your immune system will completely collapse, your lungs, heart and other internal organs will begin to disintegrate, and you’ll cough them up. Your skin will eventually break down entirely, all but guaranteeing infection. One man from Chernobyl reported that when he stood up his skin slipped down off his leg like a sock. At high doses, radiation will change the very fabric of your DNA, turning you quite literally into a person other than the one you were before. And then you’ll die, in agony."

I would rather have a bullet in the head than go through that death.

I remember a female navy officer was stationed off the coast of Japan, and she said after Fukushima she thought there was a metallic smell in the air.

 

[KaNesDeath]

I've seen each episode of Chernobyl multiple times.

Episode 1&2 i watched multiple times. This episode is so visually and mentally traumatizing that i wont watch it again for quite awhile.

 

[HARRISON_3]

Episode 1&2 i watched multiple times. This episode is so visually and mentally traumatizing that i wont watch it again for quite awhile.

I couldn't help myself.

Rewatched the third one last night