Nordic Noir TV Series Shot in Arctic Wilderness & Delivered in 4 Months Using Remote Workflow
Norwegian film production and development studio Shuuto creates high quality content with international reach on an extremely lean budget, and its latest TV series has been its most ambitious yet. Outlier, which tells the story of a young female crime profiler attempting to solve a murder committed in the Sami community where she grew up, presented a unique creative challenge: the team needed to shoot eight 45minute episodes of high quality drama in the remote north of the Arctic wilderness and deliver the entire series within four months – despite COVID19.

“There is an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to shooting in a beautiful but desolate place like Northern Norway, while keeping to a very tight deadline,” explains Magnus Berggren, a postproduction editor on Outlier, referencing the challenges that production presented. “We started shooting the series in July 2020 and delivered the final masters at the end of October.”

Outlier, created by awardwinning novelist, playwright and rock musician Arne Berggren and writer and producer Kristine Berg (the duo behind Shuuto), sold to major TV services in more than 10 countries, including HBO Nordic. The team says they couldn’t have accomplished this feat in such a short amount of time without a digital, decentralised workflow that enabled collaboration across multiple locations and automated parts of the production. Here's how they did it, using Adobe Creative Cloud's video tools and QuineCore.