Filming inside a Michelin-starred restaurant
Shot between two services, which comes to three hours of filming once setting up and breaking down are counted in. That is not much, but it is workable, provided the day is split in two.
- Client
- Siemens
- Sector
- home appliances
- Poles combined
- image, social
Context
Siemens worked with Mallory Gabsi on the EQ 900, its new coffee machine. The job: film with Mallory, who had very little time, in a restaurant with limited floor space, and between two services.
The constraint
Time, as always. The shoot was split into two sessions of three hours: one for his interview, one for the two recipes he cooked.
What we did
Splitting the shoot in two: the first session for the interview alone, the second for the recipes. It helps to know that lunch service finishes between 3pm and 3.30pm depending on when the last guests leave, and that dinner service starts again at 6pm, 6.30pm at the latest. So we had to set up, break down and come with a reduced crew — Mallory's restaurant could not take a team of more than three or four people. Splitting the shoot in two made it more expensive, but it gave Mallory the time to do both the interview and the recipes with the EQ 900.
What we ruled out
Doing everything in a single day. Too constraining, and the budget allowed the shoot to be split into two sessions.