{"id":7322,"date":"2022-03-03T22:48:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T22:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/?p=7322"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:55:10","slug":"stretching-the-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/2022\/03\/03\/stretching-the-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Stretching the limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_7322 social_share_privacy clearfix 1.6.4 locale-en_US sprite-en_US\"><\/div><div class=\"twoclick-js\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\njQuery(document).ready(function($){if($('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_7322')){$('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_7322').socialSharePrivacy({\"txt_help\":\"Wenn Sie diese Felder durch einen Klick aktivieren, werden Informationen an Facebook, Twitter, Flattr, Xing, t3n, LinkedIn, Pinterest oder Google eventuell ins Ausland \\u00fcbertragen und unter Umst\\u00e4nden auch dort gespeichert. N\\u00e4heres erfahren Sie durch einen Klick auf das <em>i<\\\/em>.\",\"settings_perma\":\"Dauerhaft aktivieren und Daten\\u00fcber-tragung zustimmen:\",\"info_link\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.heise.de\\\/ct\\\/artikel\\\/2-Klicks-fuer-mehr-Datenschutz-1333879.html\",\"uri\":\"https:\\\/\\\/greenfilmshooting.net\\\/blog\\\/en\\\/2022\\\/03\\\/03\\\/stretching-the-limits\\\/\",\"post_id\":7322,\"post_title_referrer_track\":\"Stretching+the+limits\",\"display_infobox\":\"on\"});}});\n\/* ]]> *\/<\/script><\/div><p>Most people think that water from the mountains is pure and crystal clear \u2013 this message is promoted by the labeling on water bottles\u201d, says the French producer Julien Tricard, \u201cbut microplastics have been found even on Mont Blanc.\u201d The film <em>Pas si douce<\/em> documents French scientists David Gateuille and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Gillet on their expedition to Mont Blanc. At an elevation of more than 4,000 meters, they took samples that contained particles of polyethylen, polypropylen, and PET.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Zimy-Da-Kid.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9840 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Zimy-Da-Kid-284x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>In order to shoot this documentary without producing a huge carbon footprint, Julian Tricard chose to produce the film remotely. \u201cFlying by helicopter to the top of the Mont Blanc wasn\u2018t an<br \/>\noption. The only possible way of getting up there was climbing.\u201d For this back-breaking job, he hired the experienced alpinist and filmmaker Bertrand Delapierre. After the preliminary discussions with the producer in Paris, which were held via video conferencing, Bertrand Delapierre accompanied the scientists with a camera as they took samples on their way to the mountain top.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Mont-BLanc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9841\" src=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Mont-BLanc-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>The researchers also targeted nanoplastics, which are a thousand times smaller than microplastics. Due to its size, which can be compared to a virus, nanoplastic material may even cross cellular barriers. Biologists spotted microplastics in the ocean as early as 1972, but there have been few research studies on the distribution of these microscopic plastic particles in the atmosphere. To understand the global dimensions of this problem, atmospheric researchers are analyzing the movement of microplastics through the troposphere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/gimbal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9842\" src=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/gimbal-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a>A drone could not be used to film the mountain scenery in the Western alps from above because of the altitude and cold temperatures. So, the aerial cinematography was done by the French company <a href=\"https:\/\/nogravityfilms.com\/en\">No Gravity Films<\/a>, which uses ultralight aircraft for aerial shots for film, commercial, and broadcast productions. It\u2018s even possible to mount and stabilize full format cameras and large cinema zoom lenses on their ARRI SRH360 gimbal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/skypper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9843 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/skypper-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a>\u201cCompared to a helicopter that consumes 200 liters of kerosene per hour, the ultralight aircraft with its twelve-liter fuel consumption per hour is a real ecological alternative\u201d, says pilot Jason Barrault, who operates the Paris-based company together with production manager Damien Schneider. \u201cIf we have to fly to distant locations, we also film stunning landscape imagery along the way, and we save it as stock footage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Pas si douce<\/em> production benefited from this practice, because it got aerial shots from Mont Blanc without having to charter an aircraft. Remote production has already worked out for several documentaries by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucienprod.fr\/\">Lucien Productions<\/a>. For <em>Les Incorrecte<\/em>s, a documentary about the French athlete Alice Milliat, who launched the Women\u2019s World Games in 1922, local crews were hired to interview top athletes in New Zealand, Bulgaria, and Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The director Anne-C\u00e9cile Genre remained in Paris, where she asked her interview questions via Zoom so that the interviewees could see her on a laptop screen. The production managed just fine without air travel, which paid off for the budget as well as for the environment. \u201cIt saved us 15,000 euros\u201d, sums up the producer. \u201cIf we had booked flights, the production\u2019s current carbon footprint of 2.8 t CO2 would have been more than four times greater \u2013 12 t CO2.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos: \u00a9 No Gravity Films, Zimy Da Kid<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most people think that water from the mountains is pure and crystal clear \u2013 this message is promoted by the labeling on water bottles\u201d, says the French producer Julien Tricard, \u201cbut microplastics have been found even on Mont Blanc.\u201d The film Pas si douce documents French scientists David Gateuille and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Gillet on their expedition \u2026 <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/2022\/03\/03\/stretching-the-limits\/\">Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2,11,31,54,9,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-practices","category-co-calculation","category-documentary","category-innovation","category-materials","category-production","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7327,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions\/7327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}