Ringelreih

We participated for this year's poster-pitch for the "Interkulturelle Woche 2008" here in Germany. The idea (by Laura) was to have garden dwarfs from several immigrant states as their ambassadors. My job was the whole production from photo to post with the help of danilo, after two super guys, andi and matze, made those clay figures for our project.

Huge making-of after the break...

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The Making-Of

04 // the final image
That's how the final composition looked like. Most fine art-direction has been managed by Ralph, whilst we were under high pressure...we could not even make our own generously set dead-line.
Post added roughly five hours to the creation time.

03 // pre-version
The whole process of post-production took me about 11 hours. Ralph called me lots to help me out with some hints on things like changing some minor, but important details, i never would have looked at, though i only concentrated on a clean and nice look of the image.
This included the toughest part of making clay look like porcelain/shiny plastic. Went out pretty good, rite? :)

02 // face-changes
All i basically did was getting rid of the blemishes the guys received in the build-up process, changed the weird freaky eyes, aligned their looks to the camera and made them look more real (Ralph's superb idea to add mustaches and blushing cheeks).

01 // the base-shot
Here you see the light set-up which was made off constructionyard spotlight. I blocked their direct light with some Dextro-boxes and created the indirect light with a silver reflecting mat, that Carine had to hold up over the dwarfs in each shot (too bad we don't have a photo of this ;))
(As described in the main-blog, the idea with the dwarfs came from Laura and then the decision was made to have our sculptors Andi and Matthias made 5 dwarfs from our sketches out of clay, because the idea of taking proper dwarfs and manipulating them failed in our pre-tests.)

Behind The Scenes
the set-up
the production-team
the exact adjustment and a final homage to a stressy day