August 2014
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balloon, remote controlled from the ground which can carry both cameras and the Fusion 3D technology,” Vincent adds. For the aerial shots, the cameras were equipped with two Zeiss CP2 24mm lenses. “It took us a while to fi nd the right solution, one of the other options being a hot air balloon, with members of the crew on board. But it would have been too noisy and Grenoble-based Soulcam had just the right equipment for us.” The crew also had to contend with extreme weather conditions, ranging from torrential rain to sub-zero temperatures, as Vincent explains. “The equipment was quite bulky and heavy and we had to make sure it was well protected. We had specially made camera cases, for instance.” But apart from that, the impact of the weather conditions was the same on Land of the Bears as on any other 2D wildlife fi lm. According to Vincent, the real diffi culty for the cameras lay more in the brutal changes of temperature, than in the sometimes-extreme cold weather.
“All of the equipment had to be fl own in
The Les Films en Vrac production team. From left to right: Benoit Tschieret, Guillaume Vincent, François de Carsalade du Pont, and Thierry Commissionat
Working with Manning Tillman proved to be invaluable. “He took up every technical or artistic challenge we suggested. There was a lot of talking on set, the DoP had to get Manning’s feedback before every shot to see whether it worked from a 3D point of view. The talking was a very good thing because it protected us from the bears by showing them that we were not rivals, out there to take their territory. They tolerate human
beings, as they are a protected species and no longer hunted in the Peninsula.”
Tillman also stayed on in Paris once the fi lm was shot to oversee the post production process at French outfi t Digimage, together with Guillaume Vincent and Lionel Jan Kerguistel, using Mistika software. “There was quite a lot of tweaking and smoothing out to be done, we had to make sure that the 3D images provided a
comfortable viewing experience. For instance, we had to check that there wasn’t too much of a difference between shots and that the 3D was well balanced throughout,” Vincent explains. The fi lm has just been released on DVD (3D Blu-ray) in France and will soon be on the big screen in Germany and in China. “We are still waiting for a date in the UK,” Vincent regrets. However, the team is already working on its next 3D
from LA, and each time we left the Kamchatka peninsula, it went back to CPG”
François Carsalade Du Pont
wildlife project, The Giants, a fi lm on underwater sea life. “This project will take fi ve years to complete, because we are planning a TV series, alongside a 3D feature fi lm as well as an IMAX version,” indicates François Carsalade du Pont. Clearly, as the Gaul saying goes, “Impossible n’est pas français”.
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