By Randi Altman
At the HPA Tech Retreat in Rancho Mirage, California, the Supersession was a little different this year. Under the leadership of Joachim (JZ) Zell — who you might know from his day job as VP of technology at EFILM — the Supersession focused on the making of the short film, The Lost Lederhosen, in “near realtime,” in the desert. And postPerspective was there, camera in hand, to interview a few of the folks involved.
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While production for the film began a month before the Retreat — with Steve Shaw, ASC, directing and DP Roy H. Wagner Jr., ASC, lending his cinematography talents — some scenes were shot the morning of the session with data transfer taking place during lunch and post production in the afternoon. Peter Moss, ASC, and Sam Nicholson, ASC, also provided their time and expertise. After an active day of production, cloud-based post and extreme collaboration, the Supersession ended with the first-ever screening of The Lost Lederhosen, the story of Helga and her friend Hans making their way to Los Angeles, Zell and the HBA (Hollywood Beer Alliance). Check out HPA’s trailer here.
From acquisition to post (and with the use of multiple camera formats, framefrates and lenses), the film’s crew were volunteers and includes creatives and technologists from companies such as AWS, Colorfront, Frame.io, Avid, Blackmagic, Red, Panavision, Zeiss, FilmLight, SGO, Stargate, Unreal Engine, Sohonet and many more. One of the film’s goals was to use the cloud as much as possible in order to test out that particular workflow. While there were some minor hiccups along the way, the film got made — at the HPA Tech Retreat — and these industry pros got smarter about working in the cloud, something that will be increasingly employed going forward.
While we were were only able to chat with a handful of those pros involved, like any movie, the list of credits and thank you’s are too extensive to mention here — there were dozens of individuals and companies who donated their services and time to make this possible.
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(A big thank you and shout out to Twain Richardson for editing our videos.)
Main Image Caption: AWS’ Jack Wenzinger and EFILM’s Joachim Zell
