When experts film with experts
SBB on Hollywood's tracks: Addictive and Mike Huber have realized the prevention film "The Expert 3".
According to the motto "Safety is everyone's business," "The Expert 3" analyzes real-life fates of railroad employees who have suffered massive damage or even death in an accident. In the style of an action-packed movie, the fatal scenes have been re-enacted with actors. For reasons of piety, however, not at original locations. The third episode of the series, which has already won the Edi film prize, also follows Michel Girardin's concept. With his Creative Consulting, he regularly realizes prevention campaigns for the SBB. The author has now teamed up with Stephan Christen and his Addictive. Producer Christen was a consultant at Bosch & Butz before he founded Addictive ten years ago. In addition to countless commercials, he also sees opportunities in the future for a newly discovered corporate film "of the qualitatively upscale kind".
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The opener of this first 12-minute film was produced with a lot of stunt know-how, but without a double bottom, i.e. 3D. In scenes like this and others, a total of two out of twelve cars have been scrapped in the "Expert". As in the previous films, the internationally renowned Swiss stuntman Oliver Keller was engaged as the main actor and presenter. Further excitement is provided by the music of Moritz Schneider. For the pictures, cameraman Holger Diener relied on two REDs and "pushed them to the limit".
The favorite toys of the creative tinkerers enabled images "in cinema quality" - despite the short film budget. Things got technically tricky for the highly sensitive RED when, during an accident scene in a tunnel, the locomotive's strong electrical radiation temporarily provoked a "pretty creative life of its own" in the images. For the spectacular shots, the team had to use the few hours without rail traffic between midnight and early morning.
Although everything was secured, of course, it still seemed "very scary and dramatic" to Stephan Christen how the cameraman and an actor had to lie down under the passing train. The film was directed by Mike Huber, known from the directing pool at Condor Commercials. He has already directed the first two episodes of "The Expert." This kind of action suits the NY University graduate. Mike Huber also recently directed "Heldin der Lüfte" with Melanie Winiger or the thriller "Liebe und Wahn". Huber is also a founding partner of Boutic, a Zurich-based motion design studio.
With 3,000 copies, the "expert" is now being used by SBB in various workshops.
Andreas Panzeri
> About the film
The opener of this first 12-minute film was produced with a lot of stunt know-how, but without a double bottom, i.e. 3D. In scenes like this and others, a total of two out of twelve cars have been scrapped in the "Expert". As in the previous films, the internationally renowned Swiss stuntman Oliver Keller was engaged as the main actor and presenter. Further excitement is provided by the music of Moritz Schneider. For the pictures, cameraman Holger Diener relied on two REDs and "pushed them to the limit".
The favorite toys of the creative tinkerers enabled images "in cinema quality" - despite the short film budget. Things got technically tricky for the highly sensitive RED when, during an accident scene in a tunnel, the locomotive's strong electrical radiation temporarily provoked a "pretty creative life of its own" in the images. For the spectacular shots, the team had to use the few hours without rail traffic between midnight and early morning.
Although everything was secured, of course, it still seemed "very scary and dramatic" to Stephan Christen how the cameraman and an actor had to lie down under the passing train. The film was directed by Mike Huber, known from the directing pool at Condor Commercials. He has already directed the first two episodes of "The Expert." This kind of action suits the NY University graduate. Mike Huber also recently directed "Heldin der Lüfte" with Melanie Winiger or the thriller "Liebe und Wahn". Huber is also a founding partner of Boutic, a Zurich-based motion design studio.
With 3,000 copies, the "expert" is now being used by SBB in various workshops.
Andreas Panzeri
Producer Stephan Christen (l.) teamed up with director Mike Huber for the first time.
In the prevention film "SBB - the expert" production Addictive used twelve cars and scrapped two of them.
