A Visualgenesis production
- Production: Visualgenesis
- Client: Fujifilm/Trentino Marketing
- Storyboard and Project: Luciano Gaudenzio
- Director/DOP: Fortunato Gatto/Luciano Gaudenzio
- Drone Operator: Alessandro Petrini
- Editing: Alessandro Petrini
- Color grading: Fortunato Gatto/Luciano Gaudenzio
- Music and Sound Design: Alessandro Petrini/Alessio Felicioni
- Main Characters: Barbara Dell’Antonia/Maddalena Cerana/Andrea Chesi
- Voice actress: Leonie Renee Klein
- Voice director: Kilian Seavers
This is a generational story told through the eyes full of wonder of a child growing up to embrace the marvel of the mountains: silence and beauty are part of our shared essential values. The child becomes a girl, now surrounded by quietness and solitude, whilst she discovers that her resilience and efforts, necessary to fulfil her freedom, lead her to explore the places where she intimately belongs.
Which then becomes a way of life and communion with her surroundings.
Our small and tight, yet efficient crew of professionals was able to capture the essence of this story, face tough elements, freezing conditions and explore the imposing and breath-taking mountains of Trentino, ranging from the Brenta Dolomites to Pale di San Martino, like no other team before. The new Fuji X-H2S mirrorless, which we were honoured to test first-hand before its official release, was key to tell, through awe-provoking images and impactful videos, the story and emotions of a child who becomes a woman and lives and loves her mountains. More than twenty days were spent on the field, surrounded by the ever so white and majestic Dolomites’ “walls” of Trentino, looking for the most suggestive atmospheres, in the dark, with only our headlights to lead us where we would film at dawn and then waiting until sunset, when the Dolomites’ colours are on fire, making them unique in the world.
The shootings were carried out in extreme conditions, with temperatures reaching as low as -25 °. In such conditions and long hours, we all gave our best, each of us working on specific sections of the project, each of us harmoniously complementing each other with the priceless support of the cameras, both on the tripod, for a balanced and razor-sharp definition of landscapes and actors’ portraits, but also hand-held to allow us to capture the real essence of the skiing, the adventure, the action.
In essence, beyond the purely technical yet crucial aspects, it was fundamental to experience amongst us the alchemy and connection important to capture values such as beauty, respect for Nature and the mountains and to be able to narrate every smallest detail, through an attentive composition aimed at framing the story and the atmosphere created by the light.
In conclusion, we would like to give special thanks to all the people we met during this exciting experience, who helped us and supported us in every way in the creation of this emotional visual storytelling.
