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Who is François Boulène ? |
I am a director, independent for 15 years, just before the release of LightWave 3.5, the first version available in France.
I work with my wife, she is my assistant and my advisor. Before that, I worked more than 10 years with David Niles. In the mid 80’s we were amongst the first working with video, computer graphics and HD.
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What are the important projects you had the past few years ?
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How did you get involved in « Belmondo, Itinerary… »?
I worked before with Vincent Perrot, the director and producer, on a documentary about music in Jean-Luc Godard’s films “Listening to Godard”, it was broadcast on Cine Cinema. I have worked on the collector DVD “Contempt” by Godard as well. Vincent is a specialist of music in films, he already published a few books on the subject. For him, regarding the success “Listening to Godard” had, it was natural to work together again on Jean-Paul Belmondo documentary.
The collaboration with Vincent Perrot is one of the best work experience I had, maybe the best experience with a director.
I worked with France Televisions before, I directed documentaries and TV idents for France 5 and France 3. In the 90’s…a long time ago…I directed short programs about photographs and the photography with Jean-Louis Sapporito. It was broadcast during the Evening News on France 2 during the “Month of the Photography”.
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What did you do exactly on the Belmondo Project?
Editing. After a first selection made by Vincent Perrot, I made the packaging, calibration, and finishing. I was also in charge of the technical part of the project.
Postproduction was made by us, except for the audio mixing. We used only 2 outside providers, one for France Televisions PAD antenna, and one for the Cannes Festival copy. Thanks to the quality of the outputs of Speed Edit, these 2 operations went really well.
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You are a loyal user of NewTek’s products, what were your technical choices for this project ?
I used SpeedEdit 2.0, VT 5.3 LightWave VT (8.5) and Aura VT.
As I had decided to work only on documentaries and keep LightWave as an added value for short illustrations, I sold my LightWave 9.6 license, all my plugins, TV Paint Animation pro, Digital Fusion…
I thought that the VT Suite would be enough, but I did not expect to have such an important project coming.
Despite all that, everything went well. Of course, LightWave 9.6 with FPrime or even LightWave 10 are faster and more comfortable tools.
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