Occupied Germany - First summer after WWII

[Frank Glencairn]

I´m not a friend of 48hrs or whatsoever projects.
Most of them are to Dogma, to handheld and to artsy for my taste.

Having said that, I did a under 2hrs project last weekend.

I was in the Odenwald Freilandmuseum (open air museum) that features a complete German village at about 1910-1950.

No Disneyland, all the houses and "props" are real old. Absolute time travel.
I spend that weekend there with my reenactor/living history friends and we did an impression of occupied Germany in September 1945 - the first summer in peace.

Since I had my trusty HVX200 with me, I had the idea of a little drama.
The museum opens at 10:00 so we had 2 hrs to shoot when we start at 8:00.
Well, we started at 8:30.

Of course it was all very quick run and gun, handheld without sound and light - exactly the combination I usually hate - but on the other hand it also was some kind of challenge for me, since I never done something like that.

Have a look: http://exposureroom.com/members/FrankGlen/3b8e6acbb4594a73a78ef0b01761d59f/

And here is a little prequel to "The Raid".

I shot it on the other days of that weekend.
September 1945 - The village of Gottersdorf in occupied Germany. The first summer after the war has ended.

http://exposureroom.com/members/FrankGlen/0e50c1bb2af641c398b93f4c98e9348d/

Frank

 

[Andreas Reischl]

Looks really nice!

Very cool that you got the chance to shoot in such a unique setting.
A soft filter might have helped a bit to take the edge off of the HD, otherwise a very nice little short.

I particularly liked that you did not feel the need for a very harsh colour correction, to trim it into a war-era like feeling.

 

[Stephen Aldridge]

Very nicely done. I think this really embodies the ideal of doing the best you can with what you've got as opposed to complaining about what you haven't got which seems to happen a lot in filmmaking.

 

[Frank Glencairn]

Glad you guys like it. In fact I did some color grading but just a little tweaking with the curves, as I usually shoot as flat as the HVX200 allows, nothing fancy.

Frank