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Congratulations to The Essex Serpent on its BAFTA TV Craft award.

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Three BAFTA TV Craft nominations for 'The Essex Serpent'

Costume Design Sponsored by Screenskills High-End Television Skills Fund Amy Roberts – “The Crown” – Left Bank Pictures, Sony Pictures Television / Netflix Becky Sloan, Joe Pelling – “Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared” – Blink Industries / All 4 Jane Petrie – “The Essex Serpent” – See-Saw Films / Apple TV+ Phoebe de Gaye – “The English” – Drama Republic, Eight Rooks / BBC Two

Production Design Sponsored by Microsoft Alice Normington – “The Essex Serpent” – See-Saw Productions/ Apple TV+ Becky Sloan, Joe Pelling – “Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared” – Blink Industries / All 4 Chris Roope – “The English” – Drama Republic, Eight Rooks / BBC Two Kave Quinn, Tim Blake, Stella Fox, Penny Crawford, Emily Norris – “Pistol” – FX, wiip / Disney+

Titles & Graphic Identity Balázs Simon, BBC Creative, Gas Music – “Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics” – BBC Sport, Blink Ink, Gas Music / BBC Two Peter Anderson Studio – “Bad Sisters” – Merman, Abc Signature/ Apple TV+ Tom Hingston, Markus Lehtonen, Sam Norris – “Life After Life” – House Productions / BBC One Yu+Co – “The Essex Serpent” – See-Saw Productions/ Apple TV+

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The Essex Serpent

This six-part Apple TV adaptation of Sarah Perry’s Victorian gothic romance is beautifully produced. The sinuous, winding waterways of the Blackwater marshes, seen from the air in the very classy, opening sequence, suggest the coils of the eponymous serpent: a monster to terrify the superstitious or an evolutionary missing-link to excite the Darwinian scientific mind. 

The atmosphere of the Essex landscape suffuses the narrative, which starts out like a mystery but builds steadily into a character-led drama of powerful emotional complexity. The stellar cast includes Claire Danes as the amateur naturalist recovering from an abusive marriage and Tom Hiddleston as a rationalist vicar, but it’s Frank Dillane as the hubristic genius surgeon and Clémence Poésy as the vicar’s delicate wife who linger most in the memory.

– Bryony Dixon

Available on Apple TV

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Congratulations!

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Today Apple was honored by the Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards with nine nominations for critically acclaimed hit series including “Prehistoric Planet,” narrated by Emmy Award winner Sir David Attenborough; “Bad Sisters,” from BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker Sharon Horgan; “The Essex Serpent,” starring Emmy Award winner Claire Danes and Emmy Award nominee Tom Hiddleston; Slow Horses,” starring Academy Award winner Gary Oldman; and season three of the heartwarming drama “Trying.”

These nominations mark Apple’s most recent recognition from the Royal Television Society following wins in 2021 for “9/11: Inside the President’s War Room” and “Earth At Night In Color,” and are the latest in a string of accolades for Apple Original films, documentaries and series earning 282 wins and 1,240 award nominations and counting, including the multi-Emmy Award-winning comedy “Ted Lasso” and this year’s Oscar Best Picture winner “CODA.”

The Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards recognize the huge variety of skills and processes involved in program production from editing to lighting, and costume design to digital effects. The winners of the Royal Television Society Craft & Design Awards will be unveiled at a ceremony at the London Hilton on Park Lane on Monday, December 5.

Apple landed nine Royal Television Society Craft & Design Award nominations for:

“Prehistoric Planet”

Production Design: Entertainment & Non Drama Effects Design: Programme Content Sequence

“Bad Sisters”

Music: Original Score Music: Original Title

“The Essex Serpent”

Production Management Award Design Titles

“Slow Horses”

Music: Original Title

“Trying”

Sound: Entertainment & Non Drama

“The Essex Serpent”

“The Essex Serpent” follows London widow Cora Seaborne, played by Claire Danes, who moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. She forms a surprising bond of science and skepticism with the local pastor, played by Tom Hiddleston, but when tragedy strikes, locals accuse her of attracting the creature.

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The Essex Serpent receives 2 nominations at the RTS Craft & Design Awards

Congratuations to:

yU+co - Designe - Titles

and to

Karl Liegis - Production Management Award

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There’s a lot of mud in The Essex Serpent, sometimes on screen, mostly underfoot. It sticks to the characters, sucking them into the landscape, preventing their escape. For the filmmakers this was as much a practical problem as it was a metaphor for the period tale of a London widow Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes) who investigate reports of a mythical serpent on the coast to the East of London in the county of Essex.

“In the Essex marshes the tides are extreme,” says director of photography David Raedeker, BSC. “Sometimes we had windows of no more than an hour on a dry patch before we had to get off or be completely covered in water. There was a lot of wind too, up to 50 mph at times. No monitor up would stand up in that. We had freezing actors and crew stuck in the mud.”

Raedeker, perhaps best known for The Souvenir and The Souvenir Part II for director Joanna Hogg, had worked with Essex director Clio Barnard (The Selfish Giant) on one of her early short films.

The six-part romantic drama is set in Victorian England and adapted by See-Saw Films from Sarah Perry’s 2016 novel for Apple TV+. It co-stars Tom Hiddleston as the local vicar who refuses to believe in the serpent, let alone that it’s an ill omen. When tragedy strikes, Cora is accused of attracting the creature.

“We discussed the strong gothic element to this story,” the DP says. “We wanted this kind of comparison visually between the old and the new, between London as the seat of the new industrial age and the religious hinterland of Essex.”

ARRI Alexa LF with DNA lenses vintages to take the harshness off the sensor. “It’s very much a dream-like story, not crystal clear, almost like a vintage photograph,” he says.

They studied photography of the period including some of the first color plates as part of a 50-page Look Bible developed between the heads of department and involving Rob Farris, director of post production at London house Goldcrest. They developed LUTs to contrast scenes set in London with those in Essex.

In prep, Raedeker tested Steadicam and gimbals against massive wind machines blow straight into the camera. The conditions necessitated some handheld work since even a Steadicam would have blown out of position.

“We did a lot of walk and talk shots which we don’t want to be jerky but when you’re handheld on that terrain was tricky so we used a gimbal for those,” he says.

“I wanted to get more into the mud but it was very difficult. You’d sink almost up to your chest if you waded in. I had huge shoes like moon boots to walk on it so we didn’t have the time in between the tides to get into position and do complex setups.”

They filmed some scenes on an island with a small hut that was only accessible by boat or by walking two hours between tides.

“It was hard to get to and it meant we could only take limited crew numbers. All around us was mud. You couldn’t leave the grass otherwise you became quite literally stuck in the mud.”

The scenes in Essex were largely shot with natural light with additional battery powered lamps. There was no way they could cart a generator over the mud nor stabilize any form of large lighting kit on gibs or cherry pickers.

After shooting on location in Essex between February and April 2021, the team moved to studios in north London for interiors and additional exterior work in places Southwark and Islington.

“We looked for building exteriors with red brick because we wanted to emphasize red, the color of blood,” Raedeker says. “London is designed to look heavier and to lean into reds and blacks. The idea is that we feel the suffocating influence of industrialization and the machinery of progress and the work ethic.

Another expression of this is the character Luke Garrett (Frank Dillane) who is a doctor and who serves to illustrate the advance of medicine versus superstition.

“To reflect Cora’s subjective point of view we don’t show London skies until the end, whereas Essex is framed for big skies.”

That was clearly different on the sound stage. “I treat a studio like a location. I think about the time of day and where the sun would be at that point to give it this naturalism. We used lamps to replicate sunlight, mainly soft illuminations.”

Despite the conditions, “weather rarely ‘reads’ strongly on screen,” he says. “Even when it rains it has to pour buckets to really show on camera and the weather in Essex, while foul at times, didn’t show up as much as wanted it to.”

For the opening scene of episode one, for example, the weather was just too clement when they originally shot it. “We needed the tide to be right, the weather to be overcast to make it easier for VFX to add in fog. But we had blazing sun.”

For this reason, they returned a few months later and reshoot the scene.

Raedeker credits his camera team for helping him on this unusually arduous shoot including focus puller Luke Cairns, loader Oliver Hallam, Grip Sam Reeves and Gaffer Sol Saihati.

“We had a really strong team. All the camera gear was in rucksacks to protect against the elements and every eventuality and it never broke down once.

“There were times when operating handheld I had to run backwards and Sam was there to guide me in the right direction — not every grip would have done that.”

They were so good Raedeker took them to his next job, shooting BBC four-part drama Best Interests, starring Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen.

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Heartbreak for some, joy for others. The season finale of #TheEssexSerpent is now streaming on @appletvplus.

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Composers Dustin O’Halloran & Herdís Stefánsdóttir Take “Modern Approach” To Victorian-Era Tale With ‘The Essex Serpent’ Score – Hear An Exclusive Track

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive track from Dustin O’Halloran and Herdís Stefánsdóttir’s score for The Essex Serpent, which is set for digital release today via Lakeshore Records.

The Apple TV+ limited series from See-Saw Films follows London widow Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes), who moves to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent. Seaborne forms a surprising bond of science and skepticism with the local pastor (Tom Hiddleston), but when tragedy strikes, locals accuse her of attracting the creature.

When O’Halloran and Stefánsdóttir boarded the project, they looked to evoke the dark depths of Victorian England through the utilization of both electro acoustics and strings. “From our first conversations with director Clio Bernard, we knew we would be creating something layered and multidimensional,” the composers told Deadline in a joint statement. “This was our first collaboration together as composers and it allowed us to explore subjects like fear of the unknown, the Victorian era where science and religion were in constant conflict, and the complexity of superstition.”

O’Halloran and Stefánsdóttir noted that they were fortunate to receive the full trust of Bernard, who offered them the space to experiment. Added the duo: “Even though it was a period piece set in late 1800’s, we took a modern approach to the music and how we wrote and recorded it, accentuating the sound of the wood and bow of the strings, and we went deep into capturing the sound limits of the cello and electro acoustic manipulation.”

O’Halloran is an American pianist and composer who won an Emmy in 2015 for his main title theme to Amazon’s dramedy Transparent. He was also nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award and a Critics’ Choice Award for his score to Lion, written in collaboration with Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka). His film career began when Sofia Coppola invited him to contribute to Marie Antoinette, and he has since worked on many films and TV shows, including Drake Doremus’ Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Like Crazy and Marc Turtletaub’s Puzzle. He also scored George Tillman Jr.’s The Hate U Give and joined forces with Bryan Senti for Nick Murphy’s six-part Sky TV series, Save Me. He and Bertelmann reconvened to collaborate on Netflix’s The Old Guard, and again on the BBC’s 2019 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

Stefánsdóttir is an Icelandic composer of music for multimedia, as well as a songwriter and an electronic musician. She graduated with an M.A. degree in film scoring from New York University in 2017, and has since scored projects including HBO’s series We’re Here, FX’s Y: the Last Man, and Ry Russo-Young’s romance The Sun Is Also a Star.

The Essex Serpent premiered on Apple TV+ on May 13. The series based on Sarah Perry’s bestselling novel of the same name was adapted for the screen by BAFTA Award-nomated writer Anna Symon. Barnard and Symon also exec produced it alongside Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Patrick Walters.

Listen to O’Halloran and Stefánsdóttir’s track “The Serpent” from The Essex Serpent by clicking above.

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The Essex Serpent — From the Page to Screen | Apple TV+

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Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ original series The Essex Serpent. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Academy Award nominee Dustin O’Halloran (Lion, Like Crazy, Transparent, The Hate U Give, The Old Guard, The Art of Racing in the Rain) and Herdís Stefánsdóttir (Y: The Last Man, The Sun Is Also a Star, We’re Here). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, June 10. Check back on this page for the streaming/download link. The Essex Serpent is developed by Anna Symon (Mrs. Wilson, Deep Water) based on Sarah Perry’s novel of the same name and stars Claire Danes, Tom Hiddleston, Clémence Poésy, Hayley Squires and Frank Dillane. The drama is set in Victorian England and follows a widow who moves from London to Essex to investigate reports of a mythical serpent and forms an unlikely bond with the village vicar. The final episode of the 6-parter will premiere tomorrow on Apple TV+.

Here’s the album track list:

1. Estuary (2:24) 2. The Essex Serpent Main Title (0:54) 3. I Mended You (2:11) 4. The Serpent (2:25) 5. Essex (1:06) 6. Fata Morgana (2:04) 7. The Devil Will Come for You (4:03) 8. Funeral (1:39) 9. The Morning After (2:49) 10. Grace (3:11) 11. Blood On the Boat (2:02) 12. Matters of the Heart (3:40) 13. A Rational Explanation (1:40) 14. The Gilded Cage (5:31) 15. Will and Cora (1:57) 16. If I Am a Sinner (2:11) 17. He Is Waiting for Me, and I Am Ready (1:56) 18. Cracknell (2:56) 19. Back to Essex (1:04) 20. In Uncertainty, and in Love (3:21) 21. Stella Is Gone (1:51) 22. Walk With Me (3:11)

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The Essex Serpent | promo #29 | short clip from episode 6 (2022.06.09)

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The Essex Serpent Limited Series Episode 6 Finale Sneak Peek | 'She's In The Boat' 

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