Checkmate
School Graduation Project - 2013/2014
This group project was done during the third and final year of my studies at Isart Digital, with Lionel Crayssac, Pascal Chaplais, Sébastien Rageul, Jérémy Besnier, Margaux Gonthier and Benjamin Boisgard
Synopsis:
Luka, in the final phase of a terminal illness, decides to give up. His soul leaves his body, liberated from the disease, only to discover its fate being decided in a confrontation between good and evil...
From Sptember 2013 to July 2014, we created this short film, from writing to final grading.
The main challenge here was the amount and different type of effect that needed to be done for the short amount of time we had.
We decided to split up the work to speed up the creation process, I was in charge for the Compositing (Ghost effect, chess pieces comp, heart, SFX cleaning, etc) and grading.
We had four mouth to write the story (writing and storyboarding)
The shooting was done in the Bizet clinic (Paris 16), we had two weeks to prepare it (including the christmass week) and four days of filming.