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Woodwind actress Jasmin Jandreau talks to us (for as much as she’s allowed to) about her role on the feature film. Jasmin, your role in Woodwind seems to be under wraps. What can you or can’t you tell us about the secret? There are many mysterious elements in Woodwind. I believe she is the main…
Fin Pictures has finished the recording of the final narration of Woodwind in Hamburg, Germany this week. Narration sound recordist Igor Yermilov and actress Andrea Christina Furrer were busy with the German language narration, which required intensive collaboration with South African director and writer Fin Manjoo over the last two weeks. One of the many…
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After a week of dealing and sitting with the German customs in Leipzig, the film Woodwind is finally in Munich. This is where the grading is taking place by Patrick Plischke of Besserdrei Studios. Plischke has collaborated with Woodwind director of photography Nicolas Joray before, another perfectionist. So, the grading will bring out the best from the cinematography. At the…
We speak to Austrian composer Stefan Fraunberger about his art on the soundtrack of Woodwind. Your art is not only inspired by Indian Classical Music or tradition. Tell us about your influences ranging from Eastern Europe to the Middle East. I lived in Romania… (There was) a phenomena that was mostly erased in “western civilizations” through 19th century…
We already read how the story of Woodwind was initially researched while inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven in Vienna in 2006. I’d listen to all Beethoven’s Symphonies, as well as a few piano sonatas, but then Symphonies 3, 4 and 7 became the central focus due to their balletic themes. Instead of taking me closer to Beethoven, research…
Every minute, every second of a film is absolutely crucial to achieve the highest standards in all art departments. So then it’s quite an achievement for my cat, Fox that one of the major sequences in Woodwind was inspired by him. One day he was photographed inside our shoe cupboard, and so I wrote to my…
Fin Pictures advanced the fine cut of Woodwind, perfecting the transitions and completing the visual edit on Friday night. The running time is finalized at 131 minutes, not counting the credits yet. Woodwind director Fin Manjoo talks about the last visual cut. “Over the last two months we’ve gradually trimmed the film close to the…
The platform for innovative music, Shape, spoke to Woodwind’s soundtrack composer Stefan Fraunberger. Here follows extracts from the Q & A, just before he performs at the CTM Festival in Berlin: On his music in abandoned churches I used to live in one of these Saxon fortress churches built 600, 700 years ago as a protection…
A little story that isn’t part of Woodwind, but is related to the themes of the film. One day Adam walked to the top of a hill where he saw another hill, a hill which looked like a pyramid, and so he imagined that beneath the trees, there lay a shape fashioned by his forefathers, like pyramidal…
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