Some dates and numbers to give you a more precise idea about the Kvadrat documentary feature film I’ve just finished:
- running time: 1 hour 42 minutes without end-titles, 1 hour 47 including end-titles
- pre-production and production locations: France (Paris) and Switzerland (Geneva)
- filming locations: Switzerland (Zurich, Geneva, Olten), France (Paris, Marseille), Hungary (Budapest, Kecel), Romania (Bucharest, Craiova, Cluj-Napoca), Russia (Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Izhevsk, Votkinsk, Stepanovo / Udmurtia)
- post-production locations: Switzerland (Geneva)
- languages: English, Russian
- creative team: 2 (me as the scriptwriter, director, DP, sound-recordist, video editor and sound engineer; Andrey PUSHKAREV as the main character and DJ)
- production team: 2 main producers (me included), 1 financing elaborator, 2 production assistants, 11 assistants to director (broken up into a Swiss, French and Russian groups), 1 logistics manager
- countries of production: France, Russia, Switzerland
- budget: 100 000 EUR (all financed by our own personal debts; spent on gear, lodging, food, travel, internet hosting, shipping, filming permits and communications; no one got paid, as it’s a non-commercial movie)
- cameras: two Canon 1D mark IV bodies (one body in use, another one waiting to be swapped in as soon as the sensor of the first one would heat up and generate hot pixels)
- lenses: Canon EF 24-105 mm f/4 L IS, Canon EF 70-200 mm f/2,8 L IS II
- aspect ratio: 16:9
- source video: Canon H.264 1080p, 62 hours total
- source audio: location and ADR sound: 48 Khz 16 bit, 185 hours total; vinyl digitization: 96 khz 24 bit, 48 hours total (302 vinyl albums from a selection of over 5 000 that had been all listened through by the DJ and me)
- sound mix: stereo
- music: 35 tracks (mostly vinyl; you can view the film’s tracklist)
- pre-production: 6 months (2011-02-24 – 2011-08-26)
- production: 10 months (2011-08-27 – 2012-07-16)
- principal photography: 55 days (when the camera was rolling)
- post-production: 12 months (2012-07-17 – 2013-07-23)
- first public screening: 2013-10-17
- director’s days off: 27 (out of 880 days of working on the movie)
- director’s vacations: none
Find out more on the film’s web site.
ABOUT ANATOLY IVANOV / PROSE
Find out more about my posting and comments policy, as well as publishing frequency and copyright issues.