Finally finished, the reportage for the 35 years anniversary of Filmhuis Lumen. Because they are making a small booklet for their anniversary, they want people to send in anecdotes, photo or film material about the art-house.

Shot on the Sony Z1U, one of the first video’s for the Club van Delft in HD. We chose to switch to HD because we have the ability to deliver everything in HD (Youtube/Vimeo). I filmed, directed and edited the reportage. Of course with help from the others at Club van Delft.

After quite some weeks we finally finished the reportage of Musicalgroup Rits.

Rits needed a theatre to practice and Ipse had a theatre which they offered. A beautiful match. Next to this, Rits was looking for some more volunteers who could help them with playing or behind the scene activities.
The initial purpose was to make a reportage about these two things.

Together with Inge and Pascha and a Sony Z1U we went to the Ipse building during their weekly rehearsal. We interviewed the head of Rits, the director of Rits’ new musical, and the location manager of Ipse. Next to this we made a lot of additional footage of the building and the ‘actors’. 

I was appointed to direct the camera and edit the reportage. The final edit would be done by Inge. This was where the problem began. We wanted to show both the match and the request for new volunteers, but after some drafts of edits we figured out that it was just too much for five minutes, and it was too complicated. So we only showed the request.
Sometimes you have to make choices in editing, no matter how hard it is to leave some things out.

And of course this is the first reportage featuring the great bumper!

The next reportage in which I cooperate will be about an art house (Filmhuis Lumen), also requesting volunteers.

Johannes shot the video, and it features the young Ben.

In Color I used seven colour correction levels, to enhance the ‘look’ of the video (as it will be used a lot, it should be good looking).
The rest of the animation was done in Motion. In the first part I put a tracker on his finger, and the rest of the throw is just a bit of keyframing. Especially the tracker didn’t recognize every frame that smoothly, but I guess I’ll have to work on my matchmove skills.

Hope to post another bumper soon, because I’m busy animating the second one.
I’m also finishing off a reportage for the Club van Delft, about musicalgroup ‘Rits’.