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Bataille de Metz 1944

A multi-role documentary shoot with the association Les Historateurs, awarded a departmental memorial-initiative prize.

SectorDocumentary
RoleCamera, sound, drone, editing
SubjectLiberation, Metz 1944
AreaMetz, Grand Est
The context

A subject that
tolerates no effects.

For the association Les Historateurs, a documentary that follows a presenter across military terrain often dangerous and hard to reach (forts and remains of the 1944 battle of Metz). A historical subject, where every choice of frame is also a choice of respect: neither spectacle nor decorative illustration.

The Offshot approach

Restraint
as a position.

On a subject like this, getting out of the frame does not mean doing more. It means refusing the reflexes of the memorial film. Held frames, plain light, no effect coming between the viewer and the story. Close to two weeks of filming in total, spread across all of 2024, in a multi-role capacity (camera, sound, drone piloting, and occasionally on screen), followed by two weeks of editing with a co-editor based in Strasbourg.

What was delivered

The deliverables.

  • Multi-role shoot (camera, sound, drone) on sites classified as hard to access
  • Edited by a two-person team
  • Screened in the forts able to host it and at the Palais du Gouverneur in Metz
  • Online on the Historateurs' YouTube channel: watch the film
  • Departmental memorial-initiative collective prize: see the award
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The next framing is yours

We always start
with a conversation.

Never with a quote. Tell me what you want to show, and we will look together at whether it deserves a film.

Or directly
hello@offshot.fr +33 6 69 93 96 53
Grand Est and Luxembourg
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