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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
The Apartment

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
To Life/À la vie

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

 

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