WandaVision Episode 1 Was Filmed in Black and White in Front of a Studio Audience

The first episode of Marvel's WandaVision was filmed in classic black and white in front of a live studio audience, as a "love letter to the golden age of television." These new production details emerged in Entertainment Weekly's cover story for the highly anticipated MCU series, which was originally planned for a Spring 2021 release before being moved up to December 2020. In the article, it is revealed that the cast and crew took a truly authentic approach to the production of WandaVision to ensure that they captured the vintage look of an old school sitcom. The six-episode series reunites Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda Maximoff and Paul Bettany's Vision in a trippy dreamscape that seems to shift the duo through family sitcom styles of the past - from the black and white '50s/early '60s era to the groovier '60s/'70s period and the classic '80s/"TGIF" '90s. In order to replicate the classic sitcoms, Olsen and Bettany acted out some scenes in front of a live studio audience. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/09/21/marvels-wandavision-official-trailer-1"] "It was insanity," Olsen said of her live performance for the first episode. "There was something very meta for my own life because I would visit those tapings as a kid, where my sisters were working [on Full House]." Bettany added that the cast and crew were on a "high by the end of it," as he admitted that they wanted to "keep on running the show" after experiencing the thrill of the live shoot. The team's commitment to creating something that felt like a midcentury sitcom extended through many aspects of production, with each department playing their own unique part in the traditional setup. Crew members arrived on set wearing 50s-style clothing, make-up artists added blue to their colour palettes to make Vision appear in grayscale, camera operators used different lenses and lighting techniques to create a vintage glow, and the SFX team performed practical effects for a throwback feel. "The show is a love letter to the golden age of television," WandaVision head writer Jac Schaeffer explained in the interview. "We're paying tribute and honoring all of these incredible shows and people who came before us, [but] we're also trying to blaze new territory." Developing… [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

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