Technical stuff

December latest news from ACS France

Specialized shooting

ACS France now proposes new aerial footage of Intramural Paris (7 & 8th district), shot in helicopter with Alexa XT & Angénieux 24-290 package, between 11am and 1pm. Do not hesitate to contact us for more information.

ACS France’s last projects

Specialized shooting

With the Shotover K1, the only 6 axis gyrostabilised head on the market: recent set up with an Alexa XT and the Anamorphic Angénieux Optimo 40-440mm, for the shoot of a feature film in the North of France. A unique set up completed with our ‘Rain Spinner’ mounted for shooting under the rain if necessary.

The new Optimo Ultra 12x, by Angénieux

Lenses

Angénieux announces a New Long Range Multi-Format Design Zoom Lens at IBC 2017 (booth number 12.E36) and continues to adapt its offer to the market trends by announcing new innovative zoom lens series. Following up the Angénieux Type EZ Series for S35mm and larger image formats recently unveiled at IBC 2016 for the growing corporate, documentary and owner-operator markets, Angénieux is now announcing at IBC2017 a new multi format 12x Optimo zoom lens for the high-end production market.

Our last projects at ACS France

Specialized shooting

We hope that you had an excellent summer and we wish you a lovely September full of new projects! In our recent news: several feature films and commercials, our presence at the IBC trade fair.

About Luc Besson’s "Valerian": Cinematographer Thierry Arbogast, AFC
By Ariane Damain Vergallo, on behalf of Ernst Leitz Wetzlar

Technical stuff

No less than four months of intense preparation preceded the actual production of Luc Besson’s new film, Valerian. Besson first gathered all the department heads: production designer Hugues Tissandier, costume designer Olivier Bériot and cinematographer Thierry Arbogast. He summed up Valerian’s story line then, after a reading of the script, he showed them a series of drawings better to immerse them in the particular world of Christin’s and Mezières’ comic book that appeared in France in the 1970s and which the film is based on.

Guillaume Deffontaines: The Laughing Man
By Ariane Damain Vergallo, for Ernst Leitz Wetzlar

Portraits of cinematographers from the angle of Leica

The time: the 1980s. The place: A commuter train between Paris and the suburb of Chaville. On one of the faux-leather seats, lies a Leica R6 camera its owner must have left behind. A photo-loving teenager stares at it as if it were the Holy Grail. Honesty, however, along with the secret hope of - perhaps - recovering it some day, compels Guillaume Deffontaines to bring it to the railway company’s Lost and Found Department. His exceptional memory also brings him back to the Department — just in case! — exactly a year and a day later.

Denis Rouden, the Benefits of Windsurfing
By Ariane Damain Vergallo, for Ernst Leitz Wetzlar

Portraits of cinematographers from the angle of Leica

First things first. When you are the eldest son of a merchant navy captain whose ancestors, fishermen and sons of fishermen, came all the way from Ukraine..., when you were born and grew up in Marseilles as a certified "Corniche Kid" (the local equivalent to a Bow-bell Cockney)..., when you’d always dash wherever the fancy takes you - preferably beyond the horizon..., somehow, "moving up" to Paris to make movies in the 1980’s is not exactly the "normal" thing to do.

The Zoetrope: From "Pif Gadget" to Luc Besson
By Ariane Damain Vergallo, for Ernst Leitz Wetzlar

Portraits of cinematographers from the angle of Leica

After twenty-six years of uninterrupted collaboration, Luc Besson’s cinematographer, Thierry Arbogast, was determined to surprise him. Again. Old couples must constantly reinvent themselves, mustn’t they? And so he did when they tested and tried whichever equipment they might eventually use for their next project, Valerian.