SURVIVING THE FUTURE
FRANTIC FILMS / CBC
Client: CBC
Production Company: Frantic Films / CBC
Post Production + VFX: Tendril Design+Animation Inc.
Directed and Written by: Marc de Guerre
Producer: Carolyn Jacob
Design Direction: Chris Bahry, Alexandre Torres
Music & Sound Design: Rose Bolton
Director of Photography: D. Gregor Hagey
3D Artists: Chris Bahry, Vini Nascimento,
Gabriel Rocha, Alexandre Torres
2D Animation: Leo Mateus, Gabriel Rocha
Compositors: Chris Bahry, Leo Mateus, Gabriel Rocha
*See IMDb listing for complete film credits
“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In 2003 Sir Martin Rees, Britain's most distinguished theoretical astrophysicist wrote a book entitled Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century? His predictions are dire, putting the chances of human civilization coming to an end in the 21st century as high as 50:50. And yet at the very same time, science has brought us to the cusp of the most astonishingly hopeful and transformative period in our history. Man is now using revolutionary advanced technology to transform human existence, seizing control of nature’s laws to enhance and extend healthy life and alleviate human suffering. In the next 100 years, human beings will confront the choice of these two paths leading to two very different futures. In this decisive moment, caught between darkness and light, the fate of human civilization will be decided. The human species is now in a race with itself—and the question has become: what happens first? The birth of a new world—or the destruction of the old one?
We love docs, and documentary writer/director Marc de Guerre is one of our favourite collaborators. His work is always thought-provoking and he loves to illustrate and express his ideas with strong accompanying visuals. Reaching back to late 2004, Surviving the Future is our fourth collaboration with Marc and by far the most complex. We even hired a fixer and took a roadtrip down to Detroit, Michigan to photograph urban blight in preparation for the matte painting of the ruined suburban big-box store. Most of the time, though, we were locked up in our studio digging through piles of reference material and sketching out ideas.
The above is a montage of some of the dozens of shots we developed for this film, some evocative, others illustrative. Overall, we feel this clip captures some of the various moods and themes in film. Look out for it on the Doc circuit.
The shoot was ultra simple with a few Kinos and a greenscreen. Toronto-based fashion designer Jessica Mary Clayton designed the futuristic garb. Prior the shoot, the design used a tight-fitting PVC, but the reflectivity of the material meant that we had to go with a diffuse jersey instead.
A selection of styleframes, references and moodboards that show some of our inspiration and idea development for various shots and sequences.
CREDITS
Client: CBC
Production Company: Frantic Films / CBC
Post Production + VFX: Tendril Design+Animation Inc.
Directed and Written by: Marc de Guerre
Producer: Carolyn Jacob
Design Direction: Chris Bahry, Alexandre Torres
Music & Sound Design: Rose Bolton
Director of Photography: D. Gregor Hagey
3D Artists: Chris Bahry, Vini Nascimento,
Gabriel Rocha, Alexandre Torres
2D Animation: Leo Mateus, Gabriel Rocha
Compositors: Chris Bahry, Leo Mateus, Gabriel Rocha
*See IMDb listing for complete film credits
ABOUT
“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In 2003 Sir Martin Rees, Britain's most distinguished theoretical astrophysicist wrote a book entitled Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century? His predictions are dire, putting the chances of human civilization coming to an end in the 21st century as high as 50:50. And yet at the very same time, science has brought us to the cusp of the most astonishingly hopeful and transformative period in our history. Man is now using revolutionary advanced technology to transform human existence, seizing control of nature’s laws to enhance and extend healthy life and alleviate human suffering. In the next 100 years, human beings will confront the choice of these two paths leading to two very different futures. In this decisive moment, caught between darkness and light, the fate of human civilization will be decided. The human species is now in a race with itself—and the question has become: what happens first? The birth of a new world—or the destruction of the old one?
We love docs, and documentary writer/director Marc de Guerre is one of our favourite collaborators. His work is always thought-provoking and he loves to illustrate and express his ideas with strong accompanying visuals. Reaching back to late 2004, Surviving the Future is our fourth collaboration with Marc and by far the most complex. We even hired a fixer and took a roadtrip down to Detroit, Michigan to photograph urban blight in preparation for the matte painting of the ruined suburban big-box store. Most of the time, though, we were locked up in our studio digging through piles of reference material and sketching out ideas.
The above is a montage of some of the dozens of shots we developed for this film, some evocative, others illustrative. Overall, we feel this clip captures some of the various moods and themes in film. Look out for it on the Doc circuit.
STILLS
PROCESS
The shoot was ultra simple with a few Kinos and a greenscreen. Toronto-based fashion designer Jessica Mary Clayton designed the futuristic garb. Prior the shoot, the design used a tight-fitting PVC, but the reflectivity of the material meant that we had to go with a diffuse jersey instead.
A selection of styleframes, references and moodboards that show some of our inspiration and idea development for various shots and sequences.