We felt that there is the necessity for a new aaproach to online video journalism. Online video has been around for about five years now but most of the productions lack originality, concept and visuality. We think, now it’s time to leave the quick&dirty paradigm behind and try out new ways. Online video needs to free itself from the close-minded production structures of tv networks and publishing houses, on the net there is a global and awake audience, bored by the ever-the-same tv formats which chop information into easy-to-swallow bits and pieces.

We think online video is the medium to create new formats. We want to do films, which last as long as the story needs to be told, which speak with a strong visual language to the voice of a subjective, combative author.

Because it is the right time.

FILMFOREST will start as a blog, we’ll have some talks and screenings soon, and hopefully will be doing out own productions soon.

About:
“Film lovers define key moments in their lives by the movies that have accompanied them, but what is often lost in the ether is the technology that punctuates their emotional effectiveness and makes them memorable. It is for that reason that we decided to highlight the technological side of film making in discussing the digitization of film, but steer clear from getting bogged down in technologically determined rhetoric, we simply wish to showcase great film making techniques and leave the repercussions, knowing now how the digital was involved in the process, up to you, the audience, to determine.”

I made two installations called Attention and Evolution of dance. I really enjoyed the opening venue at Basso Berlin on february 5th, 2010. There you could interact with the installations, play and pause videos, level the audio, it was almost like playing an audiovisual set. The exhibition was installed only for one day but you can still watch the artworks online here.

Musicvideoproduction
Supported by GrandHotel Pictures and in cooperation with SONY Music Enterainment we’ll realise a complete Music video production in this course.

Starting with some introductory sessions on the aesthetics and narratives of music videos, the students will later be teached how to develop ideas and write treatments. Thereby prepared for the business we’ll have a pitch for one of SONY’s bands - followed by the realization of one of the students’ ideas as a professional music video production.

Web Video - editorial and documentary formats
Video content is becoming more and more popular on the net lately. Publishing houses, networks and other media players use the more emotional and involving moving images to enhance their text based services.

Since the quick&dirty paradigm of the first years didn’t work there is more than ever the question which specific qualities web video can deliver.

The students will create their own online videos in this course, focusing on format development and strong narratives.

Musicvideo for the second single of Reisegruppe Fischer, shot on the Canon 5d Mk 2. Six locations in one day, we had some problems handling the focus but all in all it was a very fast and convenient workflow.

Label: Roadrunner Records
Production Company: GrandHotel Pictures

Director: Simon Ruschmeyer
Dop: Robert Staffl
Producer: Norbert Kneißl
Executive Producer: Birte Henning
Editor: Ulrike Mayer
MakeUp: Mel Willmann
MakeUp Assistant: Suna Kecis
Costumes: Steffi Millat
Gaffer: Martin König
Camera Assistant: Sören Lang
Assistant Producer: Dimitri Servatkovski
AD: Flo Haeger
Runner: Nathalia Haehle
Boombox: Helena Friebel