For one shot he was privileged to meet the legendary miniature model legend, Emilio Ruiz del Rio who has been involved in countless top class films since the fifties. For “Die Frau des Anarchisten” he built his last model, a house facade, ruined by a bomb attack. The effect is so unbelievable you should take a closer look at the pictures. Unfortunately Emilio died of cancer just after the shooting.

But there is a lot more to the VFX work of PICTORION das werk: The subsequent adaptation comprised a total of 70 effect settings, each requiring precise planning, preparation and execution. To do this, an in-house produced “motion picture workflow” developed by Joerg Bruemmer, head of compositing at PICTORION das werk and his team was used...

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As a longterm official partner, we are eminently glad, that, within this year’s festival, several contributions are being shown, on which PICTORION das werk has done a significant part of image editing:

The expected portrait of the big post-war star Hildegard Knef “Hilde” by the Director Kai Wessel has its world premiere on 13 February 2009 within the sequence of Berlinale Special. Egoli Tossel instructed PICTORION das werk with Visual Effects (VFX) and the Digital Intermediate (DI).

Also within the Berlinale Special, the latest film “Adam Resurrected” by Paul Schrader will be shown. The German/Israeli/American co-production, which made the holocaust a subject of discussion by describing the traumas of the survicors, will be premiéred in Germany on 19 February 2009. Here again, PICTORION das werk has taken over the complete DI.

The sequence Panorama shows the concert documentation “Von Wegen” by Uli Schüppel, which deal with the colliding new buildings from 1989. PICTORION das werk accomplished the DI and the Mastering under a very tight timing.

Building on the success of the 3D character workshop we joined forces with Pille, a cologne based equipment rental service, and devised a road show to demonstrate the RED camera. A total of 250 film and advertising worker attended the workshop and were told about the RED specific workflow with comprehensible examples.

RED's camera seems to be the first serious and affordable alternative to film available on the market. In the past, digital recordings always had certain disadvantages as compared to analog recordings. Our workshop is supposed to give our clients a chance to see the camera and it's operating modes first-hand as well as to point out strengths and weaknesses within an existing workflow.

Attending the workshop should enable anyone to identify the circumstances that would allow for the RED camera to be used as an alternative to film or when to stick to good old celluloid.

We would like to thank all 250 participants for their enthusiasm and their lively interest in all 15 slots.

Between March and September all PICTORION das werk sites hosted „3D character workshops“ for our clients.

PICTORION Magma's Peter Bohl, as well as Rolf Mütze and Christian Laskawi (both members of our 3D department) gave an entertaining and in-depth presentation.
Practical examples illustrated character animation basics while the necessary steps to create the final movie were being explained.
The main character of “Noah is gone”, a feature film currently in production at PICTORION Magma, served to exemplify the required procedures -  spanning from the drawing board to 3D modelling and finally the actual animation.
The second half of the presentation consisted of Rolf and Christian going into the details of character animation in advertising. Current project's making-of featurettes helped in conveying client-relevant information related to planning, timing and complexity of 3D animation projects.

Many members of the audience actively participated by asking questions and were rewarded with a production guide to aid them during their daily routines.

After the first collaboration with Til Schweiger and Tom Zickler for their thriller „One Way“, the Dynamic Duo decided once more, on their new film „KEINOHRHASEN“, to trust PICTORION das werk with the digital-post production.

Along with the most recent Box-office hit, film-producer, director and actor Til Schweiger has brought to date over three million movie-goers to German cinemas. The new Hit film with Til Schweiger and Nora Tschirner in the leading roles, is an emotionally honest and funny „romantic-comedy“. The Press agrees that this film, with its witty dialogue and grandiose punch-lines, is a highlight of its Genre.

The film was shot from April to May of 2007 in Berlin and already a half year later the post-production work was finished and their film was lasered onto 35mm film. It was very important to Til Schweiger to do the cutting of the film, using an already color-corrected version of the film material. For that reason the „look“ of the film was already determined and put into practice for the daily rushes. The cutting of the film was happening parallel to the shooting of the film, and already one month after the film was „wrapped“, we had already begun working on several of the Visual FX scenes.

To give all film technicians every opportunity, the PICTORION group offers, from editing, over visual effects to digital intermediate (DI) and for optimum organisation as well as to warrant the best creative and technical service, in January 2008 the film-activities of PICTORION das Werk were bundled and combined in the PICTORION Film GmbH.

For the 57th German Filmpreis on April 25th, PICTORION Film especially wishes success to the following seven: „Auf der anderen Seite“ by Fatih Akin, „Leroy“ by Armin Völckers, „Das Herz ist ein dunkler Wald“ by Nicolette Krebitz, „Am Ende kommen Touristen“ by Robert Thalheim, „Prinzessinenbad“ by Bettina Blümner, „Gegenüber“ by Jan Bonny and „Liebesleben“ by Maria Schrader.

We gladly were a part of those productions and are looking forward to the award in the categories “best feature film”, “best documentary”, “best children´s - and juvenile film”, “best acting”, “best direction”, “best camera”, “best cutting”, “best scenery set“, “best film score”, and“ best script”