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Go behind the scenes of Entertainment Weekly’s cover shoot for the latest adaptation of Stephen King’s iconic story, ‘Carrie’. In this video, the EW producers break down what went into staging the prom-themed cover shoot for the Prime Video series, as well as how they conveyed what Carrie (played by Summer H. Howell) is feeling without using words.

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00:00Bloody Carrie, Bloody Carrie, Bloody Carrie.
00:07Hi, I'm Kristen.
00:08And I'm Allison.
00:09And we are the directors of Entertainment Weekly's digital covers.
00:12And welcome to our digital cover shoot for the Amazon series Carrie.
00:16In the cover, we start on a prom photo booth.
00:20She seems naive and nervous.
00:22It's her first prom.
00:23And then as the cover progresses, things go a little bit haywire.
00:27So we're shooting this cover in three parts.
00:29We wanted to play with the idea of match cuts.
00:31So in between this picture perfect prom set up,
00:34you're getting the glimpses into the chaos of what's maybe going on inside Carrie's mind.
00:39How she's feeling.
00:40Was this a dream?
00:41Was this a nightmare?
00:42We are going to slowly destroy the set a little bit.
00:44We're going to change the lighting for each one of those.
00:47We go darker.
00:47We go moodier.
00:48It's going to be a lot of fun.
00:49So our second asset is our header shot.
00:52So the shot starts out with Carrie ominously lifting her head and looking towards the camera.
00:56As we pull back, we reveal that things are starting to float.
01:00As we get to our final shot, she finally lets go of her concentration and breaks and everything drops.
01:07The rigging for that is nuts.
01:09But Isaac Aaron, our incredible production designer, has created this insane ballet of fishing line.
01:15It's truly an all hands on deck shot, pulling these wires to make these things float.
01:20So be sure to check out all of these assets on EW's socials.
01:23At EW.com.
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