Like Ugo Estublier, Elisa Ruty, a 2nd year film student at CinéCréatis Nantes, was kind enough to share with us her experience of filming her “À la manière de…Dark”.
” À la manière de…” is a recurring exercise that enables each year of 2nd year students to put into practice what they have learnt in theory classes, with the aim of producing a sequence as close as possible to the reference film or series.
Today it’s Elisa Ruty, a student in her 2nd year of cinema and audiovisual training at Cinécréatis Nantes, who has kindly agreed to share with us her experience in making her ‘À la manière de…Dark’.
Elisa Ruty: director
For this “À la manière de…”, we have reproduced an extract from the series “Dark”, directed by Baran bo Odar and distributed by Netflix (watch out for season 3, arriving in 8 days’ time!).
Intense filming…
It may look simple at first glance, but in truth there were a lot of challenges: finding actors who looked like each other, who had to perform a difficult acting routine over the course of a day’s shooting; a special set, although more or less blurred in the extract (we painted the panelling ourselves during the February holidays, and built our own crutch to hold up the attic wall); orchestral music that had to be reproduced because it couldn’t be found on the internet; studio lighting that had to look natural…
Suffice to say that for a first experience of shooting in a studio, it was intense!
But it was also highly professional: for the first time, there were a good fifteen of us on set, but everything was quiet to let our actors (Léo Moussu as Jonas Kahnwald and Stéphane Beauvais as Michael Kahnwald) concentrate.
We all trusted each other’s ability to handle their jobs, and that helped to put our actors at ease, as they were on a film set for the first time, which is something I’d like to thank everyone for:
- those who worked mainly on the files and research for costumes and actors in preparation,
- all those who analysed the extract from end to end to guess the camera axes, which were very mixed,
- those who waited and worked on set with me,
- those who made sure we were comfortable during the breaks,
- and all those who worked on the credits!
Dark is science fiction and at the same time a story of human depth and fatality. The extract we’ve chosen to use takes place in episode 6 of season 2 (beware of spoilers for those who haven’t started the series!), between Jonas and his father.
