Silo
Silo
Silo (Season One), a series for Apple TV+ based on author Hugh Howey’s science fiction book series, Wool.
The project is set in a dystopian future where a community lives deep in an underground silo because they believe everything above ground is now toxic. Their glimpse into the outdoors is a screen window in the silo’s cafeteria, whose camera lens on the outside captures a dead and barren world. But not everyone believes what they’re being told. Their questioning leads to mysterious discoveries and fatal consequences.
Silo was shot in the UK, with Lux building and operating a curved LED wall built into the set. “Silo is a project that needed an LED wall to be an LED wall,” said Lux VP of Production Wyatt Bartel. “In this case, the technology was a focal point of the story - a big window for the characters in the underground silo to see the outside desolate environment.”
“Working with the creative team, Lux provided several different environments that were displayed on the wall, so what was on the silo commissary screen reflected what was happening outside the silo at that moment,” said Lux CTO Kris Murray.
“The screen became a character in the story,” added Bartel. “It had different layers of dust applied to it as time passed. There were broken LED panels that Lux added to show that the screen had been damaged over time. In a world of resource scarcity, damaging your one window into the outside world is significant for the community. It was interesting to see how impactful LED technology could be when brought to life through the story instead of simply functioning as a backdrop.”