![]() ![]() Working hand-in-hand with all departments – visual effects, music, and sound – is vital in being able to deliver the quality the Duffer Brothers require and what audiences deserve. Without the previs/temps and the help of our amazing visual effects team, we wouldn’t have been able to shape our characters’ performances the way we needed to. When you’re waiting for finished effects, how do you approach the emotional beats and arc of the story? Speaking of VFX, the episode has around 1200 shots. It definitely was one of our biggest challenges in the series, but the end result was very rewarding and a huge success. We were also very pressed to get the visual effects underway first, so all the moments that required digital work were the first ones we attacked, purely based on delivering the episode on time. Once we had it all built, we went back through and did our tightening passes, making sure the pace, story, and character arcs were as they needed to be. Because of how we had to shoot it, we were cutting as the scenes came in. I attacked it with the help of Katherine Naranjo and Casey Cichocki, who helped edit that episode. “The Piggyback” was a very daunting script. How did the editing team start tackling the challenge? The Season 4 finale is essentially a feature-length film. ![]() Here, the editor details what went into creating the epic finale. Zimmerman tells The Credits it was “a massive team effort,” and for him, a “once in a lifetime experience.” “This show has been such an incredible part of my career, and I am so grateful that I get to be a small part of it.” Zimmerman, along with editors Katherine Naranjo and Casey Cichocki, took on the challenge of putting together the harrowing finale that clocks in at over two hours, the longest episode of Stranger Things to date. ![]() It was the biggest, boldest season of the series yet, and Zimmerman was a key component in keeping the epic finale as tight as a snare drum. Season four sees its beloved characters continue their fight against Vecna, a mind-controlling arch-villain wreaking havoc on the town of Hawkins. “Divide and conquer while keeping our heads above water was how we approached episode nine,” says editor Dean Zimmerman, who has been on the juggernaut Netflix series Stranger Things since the beginning. ![]()
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