Spoiler and behind the scenes
The film starts with sunrise and ends with sunset.
The four crosses at the beginning represent the end of the movie, the death of all four main characters.
The first scene was planned to be a police check, but no policeman was willing to play in the movie, so we rewrote the scene 5 hours before the shoot.
The characters were designed in 4 facets to represent a single human. Viktor should be the brain - the knowledge, Isabella the ego - the control, George the eyes - the observer, Samantha the heart - the maker. In the script Samantha is the most active of all 4, her motivation was to find out what was happened to her friend who also made this experiment long time ago and never came back. The scene where Samantha explains this had to be cut out.
The second scene, where a woman introduces the characters by asking them questions, has happened by itself. This woman came out of nowhere, during our shoot of Salon de Provence city pictures. She talked to the actors and left. She was not an actor.
The campfire scene is not in „Camping Nostradamus“. it is just a good looking place, where we decided to shoot during locaton scout.
The scene, in which Viktor explains the experiment, was shot in 3 onetakes, because we had no time. The sun was rising and the parkranger, who appeared out of nowhere, wanted us to leave.
The receptionist on camping ground is aso not an actor. Because of the cicadas, our schedule was mixed up and we had to improvised, so we asked a woman from the street to play the receptionist in this scene and she said yes.
Chuck, whose real name is Christophe, is also a car seller in real life. When we first asked him, during our location scout,
he was willing to play the role of Chuck. But one month later, when we arrived and he saw the camera, he didn‘t wanted to playany more. His mother forced him to play the role. As he didnt know any of his dialogue, we had to improvise.
In the scene, where the four characters enter the woods for the first time, the pass the edges of a vineyard. The owner would only give as a very small amount of time to shoot, because he worried about his wine. He said, that in case of fire the firemen had to rescue us in the first place, an then care about his wine, so he wanted us to leave as soon as possible.
In the scene, where the car gets stolen, you can hear the motor sound before Samantha realises, that the car is rolling. That is, because the driver was nervous to not being able to turn on the engine, because he got stuck in the previous take and couldn‘t turn on the car anymore, so he left it on for the whole next take.
During the location scout, the small car rental, where the four characters rent a car, was a very quiet and empty place, with no cars passing by. During the shoot, every minute a car came out of nowhere and ruined our sound and picture.
We tried to stop them during the shoot, but these people would just drive through, so in some pictures you can hear sounds of cars passing by.
There were several scenes in Genova with Samantha and boarder partol which had to be cut out of the movie.
In one scene, the characters are walk through woods to the bridge and pass two showy trees. After the experiment is done, they pass the same place again, but there is only one tree. It‘s a hello to „Back to the Future“.
Every character was designed to go through a change during the movie. Viktor would be intuitive at the end and at the beginging only rely on knowledge. Isabella would loose control at the end and at the beginging be the controler. George would loose the rationality, which he would have during the movie. Samantha would turn to rationalism, but during the movie she would be the intuitive. Because of a bunch of difficulties, some of these changes worked, some didn‘t.
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The four crosses at the beginning represent the end of the movie, the death of all four main characters.
The first scene was planned to be a police check, but no policeman was willing to play in the movie, so we rewrote the scene 5 hours before the shoot.
The characters were designed in 4 facets to represent a single human. Viktor should be the brain - the knowledge, Isabella the ego - the control, George the eyes - the observer, Samantha the heart - the maker. In the script Samantha is the most active of all 4, her motivation was to find out what was happened to her friend who also made this experiment long time ago and never came back. The scene where Samantha explains this had to be cut out.
The second scene, where a woman introduces the characters by asking them questions, has happened by itself. This woman came out of nowhere, during our shoot of Salon de Provence city pictures. She talked to the actors and left. She was not an actor.
The campfire scene is not in „Camping Nostradamus“. it is just a good looking place, where we decided to shoot during locaton scout.
The scene, in which Viktor explains the experiment, was shot in 3 onetakes, because we had no time. The sun was rising and the parkranger, who appeared out of nowhere, wanted us to leave.
The receptionist on camping ground is aso not an actor. Because of the cicadas, our schedule was mixed up and we had to improvised, so we asked a woman from the street to play the receptionist in this scene and she said yes.
Chuck, whose real name is Christophe, is also a car seller in real life. When we first asked him, during our location scout,
he was willing to play the role of Chuck. But one month later, when we arrived and he saw the camera, he didn‘t wanted to playany more. His mother forced him to play the role. As he didnt know any of his dialogue, we had to improvise.
In the scene, where the four characters enter the woods for the first time, the pass the edges of a vineyard. The owner would only give as a very small amount of time to shoot, because he worried about his wine. He said, that in case of fire the firemen had to rescue us in the first place, an then care about his wine, so he wanted us to leave as soon as possible.
In the scene, where the car gets stolen, you can hear the motor sound before Samantha realises, that the car is rolling. That is, because the driver was nervous to not being able to turn on the engine, because he got stuck in the previous take and couldn‘t turn on the car anymore, so he left it on for the whole next take.
During the location scout, the small car rental, where the four characters rent a car, was a very quiet and empty place, with no cars passing by. During the shoot, every minute a car came out of nowhere and ruined our sound and picture.
We tried to stop them during the shoot, but these people would just drive through, so in some pictures you can hear sounds of cars passing by.
There were several scenes in Genova with Samantha and boarder partol which had to be cut out of the movie.
In one scene, the characters are walk through woods to the bridge and pass two showy trees. After the experiment is done, they pass the same place again, but there is only one tree. It‘s a hello to „Back to the Future“.
Every character was designed to go through a change during the movie. Viktor would be intuitive at the end and at the beginging only rely on knowledge. Isabella would loose control at the end and at the beginging be the controler. George would loose the rationality, which he would have during the movie. Samantha would turn to rationalism, but during the movie she would be the intuitive. Because of a bunch of difficulties, some of these changes worked, some didn‘t.
Want some more behind the scene stories? Check the E-Book.