“The only elements I had to do outside of EDIUS 8 were the graphics for the computer monitor in the lab, and the tablet and electronic goggle displays seen by the soldier on the planet. “I wanted to show the possibilities available with EDIUS Pro 8,” said Thanasis. Post production on this “Pieces of 8” film took a week, with the goal of the team to use EDIUS Pro 8 for as much as possible. After a great deal of searching, we decided on the Ptolemaida power station, a 495-megawatt coal-fired power station.” The next step was to find the planet our main character gets transported to after his upgrade. “Getting the necessary permits to shoot at the Hospital of Poligiros was fairly difficult, but the results were perfect. “First we had to find a place that looked like a futuristic medical laboratory, and the place that made the most sense was an actual hospital,” said Thanasis. Shot with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4 with a 16.05 megapixel MOS sensor at 4096×2160 at 24p, the two-location shoot took two days.
Visually, that tells the viewer that they are watching a film and not a TV show. One of the first considerations to accomplish a cinematic feel was to shoot for and post using the widescreen cinema aspect ratio of 2.39:1. “The main character, a soldier (Apostolos Mpozos) is ‘upgraded’ by a scientist (Marianna Tantou) in a medical lab and transported to another planet, where he eventually finds his destination - a large ‘8’ structure - the goal, so to speak, of the upgrade.” “I wanted to do something more cinematic to show that EDIUS is not just a news and broadcast NLE, but is just as powerful and creative for film work,” said Thanasis. Director, co-DP and editor Thanasis Deligiorgis, and co-DP Dimitrios Milonas decided that an editing program as futuristic as EDIUS Pro 8 deserved to be highlighted in a future-based science fiction story.