The Unknown Girl of the Public Bench, 8' - french - DivX - Mov - Wmv
 

Hello there,

I want to present you our first short movie without any dialogue. It
lenghts 8 minutes and was shot during 3 days in december 2004. We finish
the post-production in the end of april 2005.

This is a french short movie, but without dialogue, so we think that is
easy to understand without any subs.

This short was shot with a DVcamcorder Sony DSR-570.

One still picture :
http://arakneed.com/photos/idbp/04s.jpg

Plot :

The lovers' dates of a couple in a park will become the only source of
joy of an employee asphyxiated by his environment.
A happiness lived by procuration through the window of his office until
the day the unknown girl is alone on the public bench...

Watch the movie :

DivX HQ (112 Mo)
http://idbp.arakneed.com/dl/idbp_full.avi

Quicktime HQ (80 Mo)
http://idbp.arakneed.com/dl/idbp_full.mov

Windows Media HQ (75 Mo)
http://idbp.arakneed.com/dl/idbp_full.wmv

We hope that you will enjoy our short movie. Each question will be traited
(if I can understand your english !).

Hi Guys
This link has been posted on a few DV forums... Take a look.. I enjoyed it very much... as did most of the guys on the UK and French forums... its a refreshing change from the average short movie we get to watch on the net...

Regards

Garethw

Wow. The opening alone is worth the wait. This is a must-see!!!

Thank you so much for sharing your movie here, Jean-Nicolas! It's beautiful.

1- That was beautiful.

2- Curious: What did you do to get the look of your film?

Answers
 

Thanks everyone for your comments !
Wow, Gareth Watkins is my first fan ! :)

First of all, the camcorder : a Sony DSR-570 WSP with real 16/9 - 2/3 inch captors ! Cool DoF !

Second, the light on the set : Benjamin, (co-director, cinematographer, compositor...) made a global light and try to shot with "grey contrasts" as best as he could.

Then, he equalized each shot in Combustion to have a real continuity during the movie.

And after all that, he gave an identity to the movie, using Lustre for the Color Process. Bleach numerical technic and a little halo on the white. Each sequence has its color identity, and it's more and more colorless in the end, very desaturated !

Some pics before / after color process :

http://arakneed.com/photos/idbp/01b.jpg
http://arakneed.com/photos/idbp/01.jpg

http://arakneed.com/photos/idbp/02b.jpg
http://arakneed.com/photos/idbp/02.jpg

http://arakneed.com/photos/idbp/03b.jpg
http://arakneed.com/photos/idbp/03.jpg

http://arakneed.com/photos/idbp/04b.jpg
http://arakneed.com/photos/idbp/04.jpg

http://arakneed.com/photos/idbp/05b.jpg
http://arakneed.com/photos/idbp/05.jpg

http://arakneed.com/photos/idbp/06b.jpg
http://arakneed.com/photos/idbp/06.jpg

Salut Jean-Nicolas

"Que si, si j'existe
J'existe
C'est d'être fan
C'est d'être fan"

Sorry for the French guys ...

Not sure I'm in the fan status, but I felt that some of the French replies on the Repaire forum were somewhat unjustified... I liked you film... what else can I say? If you have anymore like this I figure I'll become one.... among many...

Well done..

amicalement
Gareth

Yes, the first 2 minutes alone makes it worth watching but I stuck around for the whole thing... and loved it!

I want to quit my job in TV do this full time!!

Out of curiousity, what did you edit on?

Jean-Nicolas,
Those stills were very helpful and illuminating. The images certainly look very flat before the color grading.

I'm curious... how did you get time on a Lustre? Lustre is a very expensive system!! (around a hundred times more than combustion?)

All I have to say is wow. I absolutely loved the film, the opening is definatley worth the wait. I absolutely love this peice.

This is what cinema is all about... Telling a story with pictures!

Well done! Thank you for sharing this with us.

Jay

Wow! Great movie! I loved the look and the style.

One quick question, for the shots where you zoom from the desk to the window, did you have to light the interior a bit to keep correct exposure?

I think the main character looks a lot like Liam Neeson. :)

Amazing.

Had a modern "fairytale" feel.

Great work...Great work.

Our Cinematogrpher, Benjamin Martinez, shot in "gray tones" in order to have the best way for correcting contrast and colors in post-production !

We had very good and helpful friends :)

Nope : no time, no money, so no ND filters on the windows !... :(

Color Process
 

Hi again,

If your are interested in Post-Production, here is a demo reel of the color process (Original Shot, then Combustion process and then Lustre process) and other stuff like using SteadyMove to improve the motion travelling in the short-movie.

No comments, only music, less than 4 min length, it's big (60 Mo) and in DivX but it's the way to see the differences in full resolution !

It's 1.07 pixel aspect ratio, as we shot, but you can use BSPlayer if you want to see it in 16/9.

All questions are welcome !

http://idbp.arakneed.com/dl/idbp_demo_etalonnage.avi

Jean-Nicolas, how about putting it in a format everyone can watch, like .wmv or .mov? Thanks!

Jay