The Project
Splice housed offline and completed full post-production for the three-part docudrama series for BBC Two. This deeply powerful and highly stylised documentary explores how The Nazis rose to power in Germany and invited the destruction of democracy. Ramit Anchal was post-producer of the show.
Colour Grading
Our Head
of Picture, Adam Dolniak graded the series on Filmlight’s Baselight. The films
consists of dramatic reconstruction shot on ARRI Alexa in 4:3 and 2.39
talking-heads.
Adam worked closely with the Director and DoP to create a series of bold looks across all three films. Combining the blending of in-camera ARRI look files and LUTs together with cross-processed curves to generate a sense of grandeur and dynamism.
It’s
common knowledge that higher-ranking Nazi Officers led lives of glamour and
opulence so Adam sought to convey this in the grade of the reconstruction with
vivid and saturated colours.
Audio Post Production
Rise of
the Nazis was mixed on an Avid S6 console using ProTools HD. The series went
through several sound design phases with the audio team and clients to further
define the highly stylised series.
The sound
effects were crafted carefully around the composed music to hone in on the dark
tonality of the programme, whilst the dramatic reconstruction scenes were
designed to be abstract with extensive use of filters, reverbs, delays and
distortion.
Online Editing
Ben Harris
completed the online in Avid Symphony using Mocha Pro and the Boris FX suite
and it’s range of tools for object removal and paint out work on the dramatic
reconstruction. Neat Video Noise reduction was used sympathetically where
required to build a rich and stylish look across all aspects of the series.
Ben worked with the director to create and place captions and re-design the title card to complement the look of the series using textures and Boris FX lens effects. Overall the work in online gives the series a consistent recognisable style.
Where To Watch
You can catch Rise of the Nazis on Mondays at 9 pm on BBC Two.