“The themes were just conversation starters – points that we could agree on or disagree if they match Ben's vision,” he says. Eventually, Oliver was told the show contained “lots of doors and levels”, and received the first 50 pages of the script, helping him build the sequence we see today. “All I knew was that the show would be about work/life balance, and something about ‘people getting a chip implemented into their brain’.” Oliver had to start his research from scratch, working without visual references or a storyline, which is quite out of the ordinary for this field of work. “When Ben and his team reached out to me for the first time, he didn't have any specific treatment for the show,” he recalls. In fact, it was executive producer Ben Stiller – yes that Ben Stiller – who first approached Oliver after browsing his Instagram. To no surprise, Oliver’s stunning and creative work for Severance bagged the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design, following tons of online praise throughout the year from fans and critics.ĭespite how well the 3D animated sequence ties in to the show’s overall themes and storylines (no spoilers!), Oliver tells us he wasn’t clued in too much when he began to work on the show. Oliver Latta, AKA Extraweg, is the man behind the opening credits of Apple TV’s frighteningly good breakout show of the year. Thanks to shows like Severance, these days seem to be gone. Flashy title cards or overlaid credits on screen were swapped in lieu of the good old-fashioned one-minute sequences, which set up the entire world of the proceeding show. For a brief period of time, it seemed as if the world of television had lost the magic of a good opening credits sequence.
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