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Case study:
Crocodile Tears

Production Companies: Talamedia (ID), E-Motion Entertainment (ID), Giraffe Pictures (SG), Acrobates Films (FR), Poetik Film (FR)

Dir: Tumpal Tampubolon
DP: Teck Siang Lim
Prod: Mandy Marahimin
Shot on ARRI Alexa Mini LF, Cooke Anamorphic/i

What We Did

This was a project where we wanted to see what we, as singaporeans, could bring to the table in an already very established film industry in Indonesia.

❋ International Collaboration

As offline post-production was being handled by editors in Jakarta and Singapore, with online being handled in France, we needed something where everyone was kept in the loop, from image pipelines to camera logs.

❋ Tools Used

We used ZoeLog between the script and camera departments, so that shot info and metadata can be combined into one spreadsheet, which is then synced to Silverstack XT on my end for merging. At the end of the shoot day, logs and dailes were sent to the offline editor in Jakarta from Cikarang with Frame.io’s Camera to Cloud system.

❋ Expert Facilitation

While there was a little bit of a learning curve with using a new system like ZoeLog, after proper guidance, reception from the relevant departments were good.

Any update from either the Camera Department or the Script Department was instantly reflected on everyone’s iPhones and iPads.

❋ The Result

This ended up increasing confidence in the quality of on-set metadata, combining manually written shot descriptions with LDS info fed into the camera from the lens.