page_title: Out of the Past (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
section_title: Filming and visual effects
hierarchical_section_title: Out of the Past (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) / Production / Filming and visual effects
caption_attribution_description: English: A 2015 photo of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
context_page_description: "Out of the Past" is the fourth episode of the seventh season of the American television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Based on the Marvel Comics organization S.H.I.E.L.D., it follows a Life Model Decoy of Phil Coulson and his team of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents as they race to stop the Chronicoms from unraveling history in 1955. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and acknowledges the franchise's films. The episode was written by Mark Leitner and directed by Garry A. Brown.
  Clark Gregg reprises his role as Coulson from the film series, starring alongside Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons, Natalia Cordova-Buckley, and Jeff Ward. The episode remains in 1955 after the characters traveled to that year in the previous episode, but takes on a film noir tone and is shown almost entirely in black and white; the episode was filmed in color like other episodes of the series before being re-graded to be black and white. Its title is a reference to the 1947 noir film of the same name. Guest star Enver Gjokaj reprises his role of Daniel Sousa from the MCU television series Agent Carter.
context_section_description: The episode was filmed in color, and all the visual effects were created in color as they normally would be. The episode was then color graded to be in black and white. The video monitors on set were also in black and white to aid in shooting the episode. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. films with zoom lens, but for this episode, director Garry A. Brown chose 29 mm, 50 mm, 75 mm, and 100 mm prime lens "to help with the 1950s authenticity". Brown said "the favorite" lens was the 29 mm "because you could get in nice and close to the actors and you also stay wide enough to see the environment that you're shooting in". To be further authentic, Brown utilized many tight shots on the actors and the mechanism on the camera that could quickly change the shot to a Dutch angle. Cinematographer Kyle Jewell used a light filter over the camera lens to give lights in the episode a "bloom quality", which was compared to the 1959 television series The Twilight Zone. The sequences with Coulson and Sousa on the train were filmed on an actual train, rather than using green screen. Filming on the train reminded Gjokaj of filming on Agent Carter because of the period wardrobe and setting and the many extras used. The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel was one of the locations in Los Angeles the episode was able to shoot at, since the episode was set in the city.
caption: The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel featured prominently in the episode
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