Jazz Animation by Michael Levy, Music by John Coltrane [1].

[1] Giant Steps (michalevy.com)

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The shooting is over. I had real fun shooting in Paris. The people in public were kind and open minded. I have to confess, that I was under pressure because of the time constraints. The weather on the weekend was said to be bad. So we had to finish the shooting with both actors on Friday. But due to their experience everything turned out well. The pictures are stunning. This is a big effort of the great acting. I hope that I can do justice to this with the completed short film. Marko will start the music composing as soon as the rough edit is decided.

THANK YOU
I would love to thank everyone who helped to make this shooting happen.
Here in Paris thanks to
Arianna Véronesi and
Sébastien Bourlard
for contributing their talent and valuable time.

Of course huge thanks to my partner Marko Ostojic. Thanks for the producing effort, trust, exchange, fun, problem sharing and sources of inspiration.

Thanks to the staff and support
Maja and Srdjan,
Bojana and Ivan.
At Aachen big thanks to
Pawel, my father, Kuba and
Lutz Tegeler
who helped me constructing the camera rig and supported me with equipment.

Of course big thanks to my professors
Michael Brucherseifer
for his guidance and supervision and the trust in this project.
Thanks professor Matthias Knézy-Bohm for his invaluable hints and teachings.

Thanks to the owners of the bar Le Muller and the city of Paris for being our scene.

Thanks to coffee and cigarettes.

I hope I didn’t forget anybody. Please tell me if I did.
I am sorry that this thanks come before the project is finished but I feel that the people really deserve this.

Here some photos done by Maja:

“Cut. It’s a wrap!”

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We have decided on the actors. Arianna and Sébastien will take the lead roles. We established the details with Arianna yesterday and I’m glad that she looks forward to participate in the project. I am confident that she matches the role and it really pleases me that she shows the same enthusiasm as we do. The shooting will start on Thursday.

This evening we will meet Séb. From what I saw on pictures he will be the right choice for our character. I am sure he will feel the role because of his great experience in acting.

We really love Arianna and Séb to evolve the characters they play. Marko and I have a certain understanding of what we are looking for but we don’t want to limit the actors performance. It is them who will make the character feel, think and behave. We want the actors strongly to be in the process of developing the story from the characters point of view. This whole short film will be a team effort. And we want every person to participate in their way. I am glad Arianna seems to be happy with that. Although it possibly means more work for the actors the artistic freedom will greatly influence the result in my opinion.

Marko will compose the music. I am so excited about this. Not only will the whole short film be original work but also, with Markos deep understanding of the story, we can really work out a symbiosis between the picture and music. This is an often underestimated aspect of motion picture.

We’ve done some test shooting yesterday and the rig seems to be stable. The Parisian sun smiled at us. The picture we made look promising. It’s time to fill the picture with life.

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[1] Creators page (blublu.org)

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