Each episode of Adolescence, a four-part Netflix drama that premiered on March 13, was filmed in a single continuous shot.
While shooting the British show, which traces the emotional fallout after a teenage stabbing, the camera was handed between operators like a relay race, clipped on and off drones and passed between the fast-moving crew as they followed the actors in and out of buildings and vehicles.
It is a style used before by director Philip Barantini to add an immediacy for the viewer and immersion for the cast, which includes Stephen Graham, Erin Doherty and Ashley Walters.
Graham says it is a Zen-like style of acting.
โYou have that kind of spontaneity and that energy that you get from doing a play and doing a live performanceโ while using the naturalistic style of television acting, Graham explains.