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Were they both your own projects?
Yes, the Genies of the Sea
was an order from France 5 with the participation
of the National Museum of the Navy. It consisted
of putting a Franco-Canadian exhibition, which
took place in the Trocadero in Paris until the
end of February this year, on the screen.
The men from the museum asked
me to make a documentary that wasn't too "didactic".
They really wanted more to give an impression
of the exhibition rather than just a documentary
about the figureheads for ships. I wrote a four-page
script, showed it to my two contacts, we redid
a couple of things and it was good to go.
I've also recently finished
a film for France 3 about utopian architecture
in Paris, I think it took about two-and-a-half
months to do, with a month of that for the 3D.
I work alone, so I don't know if that's very long
considering the amount of work. It had been a
while since I last used Modeler, so I lost a bit
of time getting back into it, but it was a calm
month of work, not even nine-hour days.
The filming took 15 days.
It was a simple filming schedule - interviews
and views of Paris. I filmed everything, apart
from three helicopter shots, with my DVX 2000.
It took a month for the editing, compositing,
mixing, retouching and so on.
The project was my idea, although
it came from another exhibition, at Paris' town
hall: "Paris in the Year 2000". Since then I've
wanted to make the film, but time passes really
quickly...
I did the editing, most of
the sound, the 2D and the 3D (in LightWave 7.5c,
what else?), the mixing and final touches. Freedom
is finally acquired thanks to the Video Toaster
and NewTek.
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