"Ed Sheeran floats through New York on a cloud of his own sunny high spirits in this hour-long Netflix special. He is the Candide of the music business, smiling benignly, strumming and singing, seamlessly pausing for selfies and fist-bumps and high-fives; he almost visibly absorbs energy from the saucer-eyed fan-worship shown by gobsmacked passersby and radiates it back at them."
"With no cuts (though there's an allowable fast-forward bit, and the audio might have been tweaked in post-production) they follow the unselfconscious Ed as he completes a late-afternoon soundcheck at the New York theatre where he's playing a concert later on, and then for the next hour, and with fans pretty much always swarming around him, he wanders through the city with his guitar for various encounters, some planned, some (supposedly) not."
Ed Sheeran moves through New York in an hour-long, mostly single-take special that follows him from a late-afternoon soundcheck to the theatre performance. Fans constantly swarm him as he pauses for selfies, fist-bumps and spontaneous performances. He plays during a proposal, stages an impromptu gig on a tourist bus, performs at a rooftop birthday and jams in a pub, then plays on a subway train before returning to the packed auditorium. The production uses no cuts (with an allowable fast-forward and possible audio tweaks) and showcases fluid camera choreography passed between handheld operators and drones, producing seamless, floating interior moves compared to Sergei Urusevsky.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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