"Oceans" Microscope Shoot
Directed by Jacques Perrin & Jacques Cluzaud.
Producer: Jacques Perrin & Nicolas Mauvernay
Executive Producer: Olli Barbe
MICROSCOPE SHOOT: Second unit director: Christophe Cheysson
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GOAL: Being able to travel in a drop of water with x, y and roll motion plus the possibility of zooming in the image. Starting with a 1/2 mm large framing, finishing to 50 microns large.
Being able to release these images on large screenings till Imax theater.
METHOD: Using Zeiss V20 microscope, Sony F23 camera with customized camera settings and contrast curve able to deal with extreme highlights.
Using the skills of the creators of the Louma crane systems to remote the table of the microscope and to gear down the remote control of each axes.
No animals were harmed during this shooting. Each drop of water was changed after 10 mn to avoid.... boiling point.
OCEANOPOLIS BREST - oceanopolis.com/ Manager: Eric Hussenot,
Audio-visual manager: Philippe Coyault,
Searcher, planctron specialist: Pierre Mollo plancton-du-monde,
Audio-visual technical manager: Jean-Marc Lhuilllier;
GALATEE FILMS CREW: Project coordinator: Dimitri Billecocq - DoP & Digital Imaging Director: Philippe Ros - Focus Puller: Cyrille Liberman - D.I.T: Olivier Garcia & Mathieu Lamand - Head gaffer: Marc Serayet.
SPECIAL THANKS to:
Dr. Winfried Scherle, Vice President and General Manager of the Carl Zeiss Camera Lens Division,
Ulrich Kohlhass from Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbH
Helmut Lenhof Product Manager, Digital Cinema Lenses, Carl Zeiss Lens Division
Mickael Morgant from Carl Zeiss S.A.S
Microscope Zeiss V20 & Sony F23 cameras customization (log curves & remote table) designed by Herve Theys and Olivier Garcia, HD Systems
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