NEWS

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- 2011-October-30

End of June this year, Jacques Steyn called me and asked if i would be interested in DP'ing a CarCommercial he was directing; A CarCommercial with a completely new approach!  

He was talking about shooting a film for smart in Berlin with minimalist crew and DSLR's only. 
It made me wonder a bit, usually Jac is not really well known for shooting with a small crew and so little equipment. 
Not a week later we met in Berlin, armed with 6 Canon DSLR cameras and everything else we both found at home which could possibly be of use to us. 
It was just a station wagon full of gear. Lighting was cut down to 4 LED LightPanels and some reflector boards.
Gearwise this was the exact opposite of all CarCommercials i had done before with Jac or anybody else.
It ended up being a kind of family-production - his daughter Sahra joined us as our actress and production coordinator, my wife Renate drove to Berlin 2 days later and found herself in the function of precision driver and PA.
Even Berlin based DP Thomas Stokowski collaborated for 2 days. Thank you again brother for your great support!



After 5 days/nights of shooting we wrapped with lots of stunning footage to show for our work. 
PostProduction began soon after in LosAngeles - linked via Skype to Jac's homebase in Ibiza.
The result is a really outstanding film produced on a budget - we honestly don't want to tell anyone about! (-; 
This is the US version only at the moment, the EU version will be very different!


Enormously supported by:
- FGV Schmidle GmbH, Munich
- Aero Film, Santa Monica 
- Editor: Tony Gentile, LosAngeles
- Music&Voice: Michael Kadelbach, Berlin


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- 2011-June-06

After having been involved in a couple of S3D productions as a DIT and Operator, i DP'ed a S3D production for Audi last week. It is indeed very complex stuff, but really worth the effort.


I really have to thank my crew for the enormous support they gave me on this gig: (from left to right in pic)
- Peter Hafenrichter, KeyGrip
- Alexander C. Schlee, DIT
- Kubilay Topal, Producer and Director
- Uwe Hagenbach, Gaffer
- Jan Bernotat, Sterographer
- Christian Knöpfle, 1stAC/FocusPuller


- S3D rig by www.screenplane.com
- CameraGear by www.ready2roll.de
- Lighting and Grip by www.licht-technik.com

 

© SetPic: Renate E. Forster 

 


Crew not seen in the pic:
- Basia Baumann, 1stAD
- Jens Geibel, UnitManager
- Deria Topal, ProductionCoordinator
- Daniela Leuschner, ProductionAssistance
- Michel Schütz, PostProductionSupervisor 
- Oliver Markowski, CGI Supervisor
- Ya'ir Magall, OnSetCutter+Editor
- Michael Fuchs, ProductionDesigner
- Klaus Lübs, BestBoy 
- Florian Windl, Spark 
- Stoffel Albrecht, Rigging
- Christian Weiß, Rigging
- Marion Kochs-Kämper, MakeUp
- Sani Gulic, Styling
- Thomas Czogalla, Runner
- Rolf Jani, Runner

And last but really not least:
- Pit Gieler, Catering

Thank you all so much for this fabulous production in 3 dimensions guys!

Emanuel


- watch the clip in 480x270 in my MediaArchive (14MB) 

- 2011-Feb-12

Just got back from freezing f...... cold Finland.
We had a three day shoot from the 8th until the 10th.
In temperatures as low as -33 (MINUS) degrees!
We worked our arses off to please both the director and the producer.

We were shooting a Bentley doing speeds exceeding 333km/h
on an ice track 6km long and 30m wide, which had been
cleared of snow on the frozen Baltic see 60km north of Oulu.

This, by the way, also happened to be the world speed record for a serial car on ice!

Thomas Roim and i were responsible for the “OnBoard” and “InBoard” footage. We used 2 Canon 5D2, 1 Canon 7D and a Toshiba Full HD mini-camera.

Fortunately the gear (and we) worked fine and survived - 
but this was not a nice vacation guys!
It was sometimes really ugly (up to imposs. and hurting) to work under such extreme conditions.

Not my hottest tip for your holiday trip in winter mates, honestly!