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After the shooting was wrapped, the editor Dietmar Kraus
started work at the HFF in Potsdam. After logging over 20
hours of tape he began a rough cut, which alone took 6 weeks.
When the best scenes were chosen and assembled, the post
production company Magna Mana in Frankfurt started work
on the digital effects. Some scenes shot in front of blue
screens were composited, others were completely "created" with
computer generated imagery.
Magna Mana had over 100 scenes to work on, luckily they
had a detailed storyboard for most, which enabled them to
carefully budget their time and expenditure for each shot.
Not only about propaganda, but also a film about film, in
our "Life Goes On", we often combined old Ufa film
tricks like foreground effects with the most modern computer
animation to create in some scenes a stylized realism. We
very much wanted to reflect the unreal yet charming aesthetic
of a German studio production of the 1940s.
The Magna Mana team in Frankfurt lead by Frank Vogt worked
for almost 4 months on the digital effects, until the film
achieved the look the director had envisioned.
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the editor Dietmar Kraus on his AVID
the whole project on hard disc
storyboard over story-
board along the walls of Magna Mana
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