Lucia Aniello on Creating the Look and Feel of “Hacks”

Lucia Aniello on Creating the Look and Feel of “Hacks”

In addition to developing and writing “Hacks” with her co-creators Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky, Aniello also directed six episodes, including the first three, where she established the look, feel, and tone of the series. Inspired by “Behind The Candelabra” and the “Ocean’s 11” movies, she wanted to find a way to capture how director Steven Soderbergh made Las Vegas in those films look “fun, poppy, and glossy, but is also real.” The older parts of Vegas she and Bricker would turn the camera on are, like Deborah, out-of-step with the times, but she would imbue them with a funky vintage-quality through music, de-tuned lenses, light, and camera movement.

By being neither quite a straight sitcom, nor a contemporary drama, “Hacks” had the freedom visually to simply be itself, yet translating that balance from script to screen required careful modulation. In the video above, Aniello breaks down a scene that goes to precipice of melodrama, without falling in.

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