Freaks – You Are One Of Us The audience needs to be a part of the very normal life of contemporary Germany.
But then, as the character discovers her powers…, we need to feel the emotional impact of the world transforming through the filter of the new skills. With Dolby Vision and
Dolby Atmos, you can amp up the world, give it that new feeling, without leaving the old world behind. It feels very natural, and very powerful.
Florian Schneider, producer
Many of today’s most popular movies tell stories of the lives of ordinary people with extraordinary powers in tales of discovery,
transformation, and plenty of
action. From ancient tales of magic to modern stories of technological feats, heroes with special powers have always been a part of storytelling.
So when a German team got together to make the movie Freaks – You Are One Of Us for Netflix, they needed their own extraordinary powers to give a mid-budget production the same emotional impact as the Hollywood blockbusters they’re competing with. And, like the best mythical heroes, the production had its own tale of transformation and discovery.
For Florian Schneider, producer for PSSST! Film, even the production of Freaks underwent a transformation. He’d never
worked with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos before and they weren’t part of the original plan. “The final decision to go to Dolby wasn’t made until after primary shooting had completed,” he says. “We started out just in 4K UHD, but we had a plan in the back of our mind to do better than that.”
Armed with the early footage and a good story, the production team went back to Netflix, and made the case for adopting Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos in post- production – a case that married creative impetus with commercial nous. “We knew we really wanted the extra boost Dolby Vision could give us, because it let us highlight the visual impact at just the points we needed,” says Schneider. “Our combination of being supernatural on one hand, but with a grounded – almost art-house – story, we thought Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos could give us a great ‘canvas’ out of which
the hero moments could really pop. What we had was perfectly good, but we said that we would like to turn this up. And they liked the idea.”
Part of that was the creative benefits, says Schneider, but also that many Netflix members have full Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos capabilities to really see and hear the benefits of taking the movie to the next level. “It was a win for everyone!” he says.
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