Image video

The entire process for this video was spread out over a 6 weeks period from start to finish for planning, shooting, writing, recording and editing.

The video shooting process

▪ a 4 hour shoot of Rita with Connie

▪ a 2 hour shoot of Rita with Hans-Jörg

▪ a 1 hour shoot of Rita with Gordon

▪ about 2 hours for b-roll material (Berlin Alexanderplatz, scenes from Mitte, etc.)

The entire filming that I did for this project created a total of 9 hours video material.

After filming

Two 8-hour days were spent selecting and editing photo material for still images. This provided enough material to make a first draft and edit, which was spread out over a period of three weeks.

Also, Rita and I spent 2 hours planning and writing the descriptive text.

Sounds

During the following two weeks, I spent two 8-hour days recording and editing the background music. We also used three one-hour sessions to record and correct our voiceovers. I spent one eight-hour session editing the voiceovers.

This allowed me to finish a second draft and edit of the video.

Final editing

On the sixth week, I added the special effects, music and voiceovers and spell checked the text in one eight-hour session.

In summary

To provide an estimate of how many man-hours are required to make this kind of video, consider that it took a total of:

▪   9 hours of filming

▪ 16 hours for still image selection and editing

▪ 16 hours of recording and editing the background music

▪  2 hours to plan and write the descriptive text

▪  9 hours to record and edit the voiceovers

▪   8 hours to add special effects, music, voiceovers and proofread the text

TOTAL:  60 hours or 7,5 eight-hour workdays from start to finish.

The cost for this particular image video was  € 4.800,– +VAT 19%