The Making-of 2015
Case Studies
Overview
| Case studies | À La Vie/To Life | Das Apartment/The Apartment |
|---|---|---|
| Country | France | Germany |
| Director | Jean-Jacques Zilbermann (FR) | Reinaldo Pinto Almeida (DE) |
| Presented by | DoP: Rémy Chevrin | Director: Reinaldo Pinto Almeida & Producer: Urs Kind |
| Production company | Elzévir Films (FR) | Urs Kind, freelance producer |
| Postproduction provider | Éclair/Ymagis | Home made |
| Budget approx.in Euro | 5.900.000€ | Very low budget |
| Genre | Fiction | Web Fiction, 7mn episodes (6x7mn) |
| Shooting Locations | 43 days in France (Paris & northern region) | 12 days in Berlin, Germany |
| Camera(s) | Sony F55 | Red Epic / Sony Fs7 |
| Image Ratio, Screening & Delivery Formats | HD – 1.85 – color – 5.1 | 16:9 (1.77:1) Web distribution |
Case Study 1 — «The Apartment» by Reinaldo Pinto Almeida, presented by the director and its producer, Urs Kind (Germany)
Focus on Crowd Film and working with very low budget, a small crew, many limitations to be faced, home lab (what is at risks?).
Discussion around the technical requirements for an Internet release, affordable equipment, Cloud.
Official Competition – Your Turn Winner 1st Prize
Synopsis
Chris, Lenni and Rachel are, very different, international, young and unique and they share a flat in Berlin.
Lenni is from Finland and explores his enhanced carpe diem Philosophy to the limit, whilst the Canadian named Rachel struggles to build a career in the unique and sometimes weird digital start up scene. Their other French flatmate Chris tries to keep true to his political principles, as he fails to find a job. That doesn't keep him from correcting his flatmates nor from getting on their nerves.
Director’s Note
Das Apartment is a comedy web-series based off the expanding expat scene in contemporary Berlin. The strong points of view, language barriers and the different lifestyles blend into rich and playful situations, which challenge the protagonists’ lives on a daily basis. This International and multi-lingual blend is spiced up in each episode by the occasional visitor, lover, boss, neighbour, friend or relative that stirs up the already existing lines of conflict. Showing at the same time the comical side of Berlin's multi-facetted world.
Cast
- Main
- Nicole Ratjen, Edvard Lammervo, Mathieu Pelletier
- Supporting
- Mala Ghedia, Yoni Downs, Dorothee Marecki, Davide Brizzi, Stefanie Schuster, Judith Seither, Özlem Cosen, Isabelle von Siebenthal, Harald Glitz
Production Details
- Producer
- Urs Kind
- Nationality
- German
- Screenwriter
- Reinaldo Pinto Almeida
- Production company
- Almeida Kind GbR
- in collaboration with
- Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Endemol Beyond, YouTube
- Image Format
- 16:9
- Sound format
- Dolby Digital
Crew
- Cinematographer
- Johannes Greisle
- Sound
- Leo Aderhold, Roman Pogorzelski
- Image Editing
- Jannis Greff
- Sound Editing & Mix
- Leo Aderhold
- Colour correction
- Robert Friebe, David Oliveira
- Music
- Leo Auri, Ramin Bijan
- Production Manager
- Flavia Rahobison, Norman Dickfeld
Shooting
- Dates of shooting
- March 13th and 14th, June 24th to 28th,
September 30th to October 02nd and
November 26th - Number of days Shooting
- 12
- Locations
- Berlin, Germany
Technical characteristics
- Release Date
- May 5th 2015 – January 1st 2016
- Length 25i p/s
- approx: 7 min per episode
- Language
- English, German, French
- Available Versions (sub)
- English
- Camera
- Red Epic / Sony Fs7
- Image Ratio
- 16:9 (1.77:1)
- Program’s end destination
- ProRes4x4/ and H.264 1080p for Web Distribution
- Sound
- 2.0 Dolby Digital
Case Study 2 — «To Life» by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann, presented by the director of photography, Rémy Chevrin (France)
Key words: file based production, archiving, professional crew.
Focus on 4K/2K, Collaboration, calibration, metadata, interoperability.
Synopsis
Helen, Lili and Rose, 3 young Jewish woman, met in Auschwitz where they were deported. Thanks to German-speaking Dutch Lili who was working in the camp kitchen, the 2 French girls survived.
After the liberation of the camp, they lost touch. Lili went back to the Netherlands. Rose settled down in Canada. Helen returned alone to France. Determined to find her old companions, Helen puts an ad, every year, in a Yiddish newspaper.
Fifteen years later, she finally finds her way back to them. The reunion takes place in Berck beach, north of France, during a warm summer. There, the three women reconnect and help each other overcome their Auschwitz demons, during those few days in the sunny sixties.
Director’s filmography
2014 TO LIFE
2009 HE’S MY GIRL
2003 BAD SPELLING
1998 MAN IS A WOMAN
1993 NOT EVERYBODY’S LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE COMMUNIST PARENTS
Cast
- Hélène
- Julie Depardieu
- Rose
- Suzanne Clément
- Lili
- Johanna ter Steege
- Henri
- Hippolyte Girardot
- Raymond
- Mathias Mlekuz
- Pierre
- Benjamin Wangermée
Crew
- Director
- Jean-Jacques Zilbermann
- Scriptwriters
- Jean-Jacques Zilbermann, Danièle d’Antoni, Odile Barski
- Producers
- Elzévir Films: Denis Carot, Marie Masmonteil
- 1st assistant director
- Jean-Christophe Delpias
- Image
- Rémy Chevrin
- Sound
- François Valdish
- Costumes
- Olivier Bériot
- Set designer
- Valérie Grall
- Editor
- Joele Van Effeterre
- Production manager
- Philippe Roux
The Making-of 2015
- General Presentation
- Introduction on Disruptive Innovation
- Technical Presentations by Philippe Ros [PDF]
- Case Studies
- Participants’ Projects
- Workflows of Participants’ Projects by Philippe Ros [PDF]
- Open Baltic Session
- The DCI Manufacturing Processes and Digital Cinema Distribution by Tommaso Vergallo [PDF]
- Photo Gallery