Short film »Der Tag an dem Herrn Müller einfach nichts einfallen wollte«

written on Wednesday, 12th August, 2009

A short film about a writer, who suffers from writer's block. In several short attempts he tries to stem this blockade. The film is now watchable on Vimeo.

I wanted to write this article for a long time, but I simply didn't find the right time…until now.

After we finished the final edit of Gemeinsam Allein the next project was already planned and Robert and Philipp were on location in southern Germany to shoot Herr Müller…. DP Jakob Beurle used an old Arri 2C 35mm Camera for filming, which was extremely loud, so that sound had to bee dubbed in sound post.
The Film was shot on 35mm Film and was scanned in full HD (Apple's ProRes HQ) for post production. For some shots we did animation and vfx, but the majority of the work was the grading that was done at our studio in Cologne, Germany.
In the end we created a nice, cinematic look for the film.
And now, about seven month after finishing the shooting, we finally mastered the film.

Der Tag an dem Herrn Müller einfach nichts einfallen wollte from thefoundation on Vimeo.

The postproduction workflow

I hope you like the film and we would be very grateful for any feedback. Just send comments to matthias [at]thefoundation.de

P.S. At the moment we are planning to dub the whole film for an english version.