Connected interview with Opium.pl
Back in March 2010 we were interviewed by the Polish website OPIUM. The interview gives a good introduction to our creative work on the film and contains a lot of details not mentioned here on the site. You can find the original interview at www.opium.pl, or read a transcript below:
How did you guys team up? Could you tell us how the whole „Connected” idea was born?
We became friends during our studies at Designskolen Kolding. During our time at the school we made a few, small film projects together, each time with both of us in front and behind the camera.
Over the years we gained a lot of experience working with visual effects in films, on commercials as well as smaller personal projects and it came natural that we should make a film on our own. What we needed was time on our hands to come up with a story that would fit well with our skills.
During the winter 2008, a year after our graduation, both of us where working with post production at a small animation company in Copenhagen. In that period we would meet up after work and discuss ideas, draw sketches and look at various inspiration and slowly the idea for the movie evolved. We liked the idea of making a movie where a simple twisted postulate/setup drives the whole story. In this case, two people so dependent on each other that they share their breath.
Since we were working on the project in our spare time, making the film was a fairly long process. We received financial support from the Danish Film Institute in June 2008, and after meeting our producer Hui Rose, the project really began to take shape. Over the summer the whole crew was gathered and we found three great actors. We shot the film over three days in September 2008 and worked with our editor Johan Albrechtsen until we had a final cut around Christmas. After that we worked on and off on the visual effects for about 5 months. Color grading and sound was created during the summer of 2009, and the film premiered in Copenhagen in September, about one year after the film was shot.
