
To celebrate its rich history of photojournalism, the film embraces several significant and poetic moments captured and published throughout the decades by giving them a unique treatment to instill the viewer right into the heart of the image.
Coffee & TV has collaborated with Director, Simon George, to deliver one of a series of films for the Times & Sunday Times online project–the Unquiet Film Series.
Once the camera moves were working, missing parts of the image which were initially hidden behind the foreground objects were then generated before very subtle animation was added to really bring the shots to life, immersing the viewer in the moment the photograph was taken.
Steve Waugh finally added a design element to the transitions and titles and offered an overall creative treatment and embellishment of each individual shot.
‘Challenges varied immensely from shot to shot” added Graham, ‘either by requiring complicated geometry builds such as the heart transplant shot, or by requiring incredibly detailed foreground removal such as the honey hunter photograph. The most challenging shot was the Olympic preparation shot, which not only required a huge amount of plate preparation, but also very detailed geometry for the tree and the stadium with the many hundreds of volunteers creating the vital paralax.”
Graham said ‘It was great to work with the Director Simon George again. This film gave us the scope to build on the methods we had previously developed for him on World War II from Space, allowing us to push the boundaries of the techniques to breath life into the photographs in as faithful and sympathetic a way as possible. “