The selection and placement of all the music of Woodwind (2017) is done. The music editing proved a mammoth task when you consider that Woodwind is a film essentially about sound and music. Then consider the soundtrack extends nearly all the way across about 160 minutes of running time. There’s a wide selection of musical approaches…
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First visual edit done: Woodwind surpasses initial estimation
Fin Pictures has completed the very first visual edit of the film, Woodwind (2017). At the start of editing, Woodwind was estimated to reach about 140 minutes in length. The running time has now gone on to total 165 minutes but this is not the final cut yet. Director Fin Manjoo believes it’s testament to the outstanding quality of principal…
First two Woodwind posters
Fin Pictures released the very first teaser posters today. Designed by Marcel Duvenage © Fin Pictures
Woodwind plot released
After being quite secretive in the first wave of information communicated to the media and public, Fin Pictures is starting to reveal official details of the feature film, Woodwind. The basic outline and plot for the first time informs us about the story’s premise and the protagonist, Bonifaz’s motivation for his journey to India. Details and even press…
The artist and his relationships, an interview with IOL
Independent Newspapers’ The Good Life section’s Kamcilla Pillay spoke to director Fin Manjoo. Here follows a few extracts from the Q & A: How relationships and music connects In the film, Bonifaz receives a mysterious message whereby an artist abroad could feel what he was doing on the same day, this results in him travelling…
Fin Pictures has started editing
After many days of logging five terabytes of visuals, sound and music, we’ve started the editing of Woodwind (2017), gradually leading up to the first cut of the much anticipated film on mythic composer, Bonifaz’s journey to India. Director Fin Manjoo had intended to take a three week break after wrapping up principal photography, but has found…
Woodwind: The artist as an instrument
According to legend, thousands of years ago the ancients could significantly see and hear more colours and tones than we do respectively. In Woodwind, music composer Bonifaz learns the age-old secrets of the power of sound in tune with the magic of real nature and ancient languages. A mysterious source of knowledge teaches Bonifaz how…
Crew bus on the edge of a Himalayan cliff
On the very first day of shooting Woodwind, our crew bus hung on the edge of a cliff with two wheels in the air. We had a 50-50 chance, so who’s in and who’s out? There’s a Morrissey song which goes, “And if a double-decker bus, crashes into us, to die by your side, is…
Writing Beethoven’s Creatures of Prometheus blindfolded
The story of Woodwind was born in Vienna ten years ago. I had moved back to Austria to complete the research, after a rather curious incident occurred while initially beginning (what was then a different) screenplay in South Africa. I was writing an original fiction but through the process of discovering the direction, I closed…
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