My pitch to Andrew DeYoung, director of the pilot for The Chair Company, was simple and clear: The aesthetic of the show had to take itself as seriously as Ron Trosper (played by Tim Robinson, who co-created the series with Zach Kanin) takes exposing the ills of the company he’s investigating. When shooting comedy, it’s easy to sacrifice visual rigor for a more traditional and flexible way of covering scenes, but we aimed to design shots that would be dynamic and propulsive.
