Caravan Film is a London based independent film production company. We shoot documentaries for British Television as well as feature films for the international market. We often work closely with writers and screenwriters to develop scripts and stories, as well as writing and developing our own scripts. We shoot on many formats, including video, DV, HDV s16mm and 35mm film stock. We also enjoy the post production process where we have strong skills in motion graphics, CGI and advanced grading. We have a wide base of freelancers that we bring in regularly, ranging from production assistants, photographers and researchers to animators, motion graphic designers, drawing artists and storyboard artists. Work for our freelancers varies between commissioned creative projects, in house project development or corporate films that we produce.
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In 2001 "Svitjod 2000" won the Prix UIP in Tampere, Finland and was therefore nominated to Best European Short the same year.
Svitjod 2000+
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Film Facts
David and Mårten accendetially ended up in Norway and managed to crash their car into a snow wall. Luckily a school bus passed and pulled them out so they could continue on their quest.
Original title: Svitjod 2000
Duration: 11 mins
Genre: Documentary short
Released: Ikon, Swedish Television 2000
Premiere: Ikon, Swedish Television
Shot on: DV with tricks. (read story on left)
story & synopsis
"Why are there so few people in Sweden and wouldn't it be nice if more foreigners moved in?" - Poster, SVITJOD 2000+
That is the question asked in this short documentary about the empty country in the north of Europe. Sweden contains only eight million people, though much bigger than e.g. France or Spain. Why? Is it because it's far away? Is it because it's so cold? Is it because they don't want any more people there?
Why is it that people are so afraid of change?
Road trippin'
David and photographer Mårten went on a road trip from the very north of sweden down to the south, to explore and investigate what people really think about immigration. The whole trip took 7 days. Most of the time was spent on the road with stop off's in all towns with funny sounding names.
Trying to ruin it!
After editing the film on one of the first versions of Premier on a Power PC Apple, the film was via tape brought over to an Avid. There the animation was added and the film was played out to Beta SP. This beta was tele-cined to s16mm film. The lab technicians were instructed to use the cheapest and "worst" method. The result of this stage was still too good according to the filmmakers. The next step in the process was to destroy the s16mm work copy, putting splices in it, scratching it, writing on it etc. This was done on a Steenbeck table, which was then also used to play the copy back while filming the Steenbeck table's screen with the original DV camera. The visual master was now complete. The interesting fact here was that, when the DV tape master was put back into the AVID to be synced up to the sound, the Steenbeck table had only slipped 2 frames!)
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