Shooting at the IBMP !
The swiss filmmaker Benoît Dietrich has been working as a freelance director and cinematographer for several years. For the scientific video journal JOVE he spent a day at IBMP filming a MALDI Imaging experiment on the Solarix. The actress for the day was Claire Villette from the PIMS platform.
Why film an experiment? How does it work in practice?
Dimitri Heintz tells us more:
Jove (Jourmal of Visual Experiment) had contacted us in September 2019, following the publication of a study using plant MALDI imaging. Noting that there was no description of such a protocol on the web yet, Jove asked us to write the scientific paper that would be the subject of the film and that would describe in detail the filmed experiment. We talked about it to the management, Philippe Giegé was very enthusiastic and so we did it.
For the next step, we carefully elaborated with Jove a script including the text of the interview and describing the shooting step by step.
After several postponed appointments, a professional filmmaker finally arrived at IBMP on Tuesday March 9, 2021. He began by filming the interview with Claire Villette. For the sound recording he looked for the least noisy place, our office. He then recreated “the right light” by compensating the artificial light of our premises with his lighting system and for a nice background … nothing like the plants in our office!
The shooting lasted 4 hours. For the 26 takes, the filmmaker filmed different places of the IBMP fortunately the CNRS sent us the authorization of shooting ….. the same day !!!