Filmmaking :: Le Vent L'Emportera

A murder of crows.

Thousands of them.  

2008 Summer Solstice.

Their pilgrimage back home, from Stanley Park to Beta Avenue, over landscapes and humans.

Their main pit stop: Lady Strathcona.

Music: "Le Vent L'Emportera" by Noir Desir. Click here for lyrics.

Audiences     

• TV Broadcasters: Nature shows: 31% of Canadians watch Nature shows.
• Educational Publishers
• BC / Canadian music lovers.

Synopsis

About 8,000 crows head back home. They start packing 90 minutes before sunset.

Flight and fancy, winds and sun rays: Stanley Park; West End Seawall; Burrard Bridge; False Creek; Science World; Tidal Flats; Stratchcona community gardens; Commercial Drive, Trout Lake, or  Renfrew and 5^th; Lougheed Hwy & Willingdown Ave.; BCIT. Beta Avenue. Home.

Summer Equinox. Murders of crows above landscapes, neighborhoods, and humans. Heading to their last protected home.

Technical Challenges      

• Principal Photography only
• Principal Photography: One single half-day shoot. Monday March 20 2006.
• 12 main locations.= 12 identical cameras.
• 12 secondary locations.
• Weather.
• The map is not the territory: give or take a mile, up or down, left or right.
• Continuity across digital cameras (lenses, parameters, calibrations etc.)
• Continuity across lenses and shots
• Remote controlled helicopters for aerial footage.
• Local and Canadian score and music about crows.
• Make the documentary an animation.
• Make the animation a meditation.

Content :: Focus    

Present the crows’ communal behavior in parallel to the humans’ evening rituals and neighborhoods.

Technical Platforms

• Cameras: HDDV
• Online Editing: Final Cut Pro/Pro Tools/Macintosh
• Remote controlled helicopters.

Creative :: Strategy          

Rotoscopy a la “Waking Life”