… and Action! How are Films and Television Made? – An Exhibition for Children from 4 to 14 years

29.5.14 – 26.4.15

The spotlights come on. Everything on the set is in place. The sound and camera teams are in position. The makeup artist powders the actors one more time. Then the director gives the signal: “Lights, Camera,” the clapperboard is struck … and “Action!”

Whether it’s movies, television, a computer or a smartphone, moving images permanently surround us. Moreover, it is now relatively easy for each of us to make our own video clips and also to share them with friends. But how do the pros work? How is a film made for the movie theaters or a television series created? And what happens in a studio newsroom?

Divided into seven sections, the exhibition provides insights into the professional production of film and television. Among many examples, the visitors learn how casting takes place, how the color green is used to perform magic in a green screen studio, that exceptional ideas are in great demand for a good film script, and that smooth teamwork is a must on a film set.

Various workshops also entice them to experiment: A movie scene needs to be recomposed in the editing studio. In the sound studio, they can fiddle around making noises as a Foley artist and sound designer. Then, too, somebody has to design the poster for marketing a film. And finally, at the premiere – engulfed in the flashing lights of the photographers’ cameras – the young visitors are the stars in the limelight, the celebrities on the red carpet.

Credits

Artistic Director: Dr. Rainer Rother
Head of Exhibitions: Peter Mänz
Project management / Curators: Gerlinde Waz, Nils Warnecke
Curatorial assistance / Exhibition coordination: Vera Thomas

Exhibition design: Ingrid Jebram, jebram-szenografie, Berlin
Exhibition construction: Camillo Kuschel Ausstellungsdesign, Berlin
Design of the exhibition graphics, characters, illustrations: Felder KölnBerlin
Design of the advertising graphics: Pentagram Design, Berlin

Audiovisual media program: Gerlinde Waz, Nils Warnecke
“Parkour of knowledge”: Regina Voss, Berlin
Flurry of camera flashes “One Minute”: artist: Johanna Rubinroth; design: Formatoren; lighting: Thomas Schmitt; sound: Daniel Dorsch, Berlin
Editing station advisor: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schumm, Berlin
Foley artist advisor: Peter Sandmann, Berlin
Multimedia stations: Jan Drehmel, befreite module, Berlin
Illustrations for the multimedia station “WER MACHT WAS”: Max Julian Otto, Zeichnung / Szenografie, Leipzig
Computer programming of the interactive stations: Thoralf Schulze
Voiceover: Viola Sauer, Berlin
Media and lighting installations: Stephan Werner
Exhibition texts: Kristina Jaspers, Peter Mänz, Georg Simbeni, Vera Thomas, Nils Warnecke, Gerlinde Waz
Copyediting (exhibition texts): Christina Walker, Bochum
English translations: Wendy Wallis, transART, Berlin
Photos: Hans-Joachim Boldt, Espen Eichhöfer, Andreas Neubauer, Maria Rilz, Katharina Simmet, Marian Stefanowski, Uwe Walter
Photographic model, poster station: Raphael Piwowarski, Berlin

Editing of the audiovisual media: Anette Fleming, Berlin
Media production: Jochen Voerste, Peter Schröder, Concept AV, Berlin
Technical services: Roberti Siefert, Frank Köppke
Conservational supervision (paper) : Sabina Fernández, Berlin
Head of Communications: Sandra Hollmann
Marketing: Linda Mann
Press: Heidi Berit Zapke
Museum education and mediacy: Jurek Sehrt
Finance: Uwe Meder-Seidel
Interns: Isabella Maria Bastek, Luis Heutling, Seray Icer, Friedrich Thorwald

Lenders

ARRI Film & TV Services Berlin GmbH
DCM Film Distribution GmbH, Berlin
Ebru TV, Offenbach am Main
Filmmuseum Potsdam
Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
Lavendelfilm GmbH, Potsdam
Lieblingsfilm GmbH, München
Motion Works GmbH, Halle (Saale)
NDR Fernsehen, Hamburg
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Wien
Port-Au-Prince Film & Kultur Produktion GmbH, Berlin
ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, Unterföhring
Rat Pack Filmproduktion GmbH, München / Berlin
RBB Fernsehen, Berlin
Saxonia Media Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbH, Erfurt
SWR Fernsehen, Stuttgart
UFA GmbH, Potsdam
WDR Fernsehen, Köln
ZDF, Mainz

Acknowledgments

Thanks to

Yvonne Abele (Saxonia Media), Sabrina von Allwörden (NDR), Sascha Arango, Ines Belger (Filmmuseum Potsdam), Karen Beyer, Lennart Bohn (Lavendelfilm), Bettina Börgerding, Jürgen Bürgin (Schulze & Heyn Film PR), Pablo Ribet Buse, Karen Cifarelli, Elke Duckgeischel (ZDF), Anne Dybowski (ZDF), Tim Engelmann (ZDF), Frauke Greiner (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), Malte Hassenstein (Formatoren), Kristina Henn, Jutta Heyn (Schulze & Heyn Film PR), Max Honert, Manuela Kalupke (WDR), Dietmar Keil (Saxonia Media), Philipp Kern (N24), Petra Kolle, Max Körner (Saxonia Media), Tanja Krüger (Formatoren), Eric Mayer (ZDF), Günter Meyer, Wenka von Mikulicz (DCM), Klas Moldenhauer (Lavendelfilm), Markus Mörchen (ZDF), Christine Müller (Saxonia Media), Marina Müller (Lavendelfilm), Familie Münster, Katja Münzberg (ZDF), Tim Niedernolte (ZDF), Tina Ondrusch (N24), Dörte Petersen (NDR), Wolfgang Pruss (ZDF), Liv Rademächers, Maximilian Reich (DCM), Karen Riefflin, Jacqueline Rietz (Rietz Casting & Agentur), Milena Rybiczka, Lea Schmidbauer, Nicole Schmidt (ZDF), Heidrun Schmutzer (Filmmuseum Potsdam), Sebastian Schulz (Lavendelfilm), Heiko Seidel, Jennifer Sieglar (ZDF), Alexander Stock (ZDF), Andreas Thiemann (N24), Christina Voigt (Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv), Neele Leana Vollmar, Jendrik Weber (N24), Birgit Wieneritsch (WDR)

And to all our colleagues at the Deutsche Kinemathek

The Deutsche Kinemathek is supported by
The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
by a resolution of the German Bundestag

Partners

Cooperation partner
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ZDF

In collaboration with
Lavendelfilm
Schloss Einstein
Rietz Casting Agentur
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DCM Film Distribution GmbH, Berlin

Media partner
zitty Berlin
Kiek mal – Die Berliner Kinder- und Familienzeitung