Client
Field Notes
Runtime
18 min 24 s
Role
Edit and colour
Aspect
1.85 : 1
Delivered
Festival master, trailer, three social cuts
Screened
Nine festivals in 2024
The film
Manuel is the last blacksmith in a small town in the Alentejo. Jonas followed him for one winter, through a single gate he was making for the church. Forty hours of footage, eighteen minutes of film.
Inside the edit
Four decisions, where they sit in the film.
We open on sound, not picture: four seconds of the forge breathing before the first image.
The grade
Drag across the frame: the log file on the left, the graded film on the right.
Graded in DaVinci Resolve. One look across the film, the trailer and the three social cuts.
The cut
Forty hours became eighteen minutes in five weeks. The first cut ran forty-two minutes and told the story of the town.
The film only worked once we cut the town out and kept three things: the man, the fire and the gate.
Directed by
Jonas Weil
Produced by
Marta Sousa
Cinematography
Rui Alves
Edited and graded by
Teo Marín
Sound
Lea Hartmann
