I recently shot a campaign for European conglomerate Danone, and this was done with remote supervision from creative agency BETC and clients from France. The shoot was conducted in Suzhou, China, and we had multiple conference calls during pre production and on location production in order to arrive at the final result.
I have since done multiple remote shooting projects, and while it took some getting used to, I realise some of these operations and procedures will remain even after the pandemic is over.
This is the final result. After weeks of preproduction, shooting on the ground and post production communications.


We had Covid-19 measures, including making sure our Chinese location pandemic apps indicated we were in the green zone and being healthy.
We did the shoot while my clients and creative agency was sitting by their computers in France. I communicated with them via a video conferencing app and they were able to see the output direct from my camera. This was hooked up through a tethered cable and viewed on Capture One.


Advertising is always a process, and I enjoy the journey of discussion and tinkering from concept to result.



In the end, advertising campaigns are always a team effort. If you want to do something, at least have fun doing it. Grateful to the clients, advertising agency and my team on the ground to make it work. Till the next one!
Credits
Client: Danone
Agency: BETC Paris
Production: Eagle Media
Producer: Mia
First Assistant : Taylor
DIT and Retoucher: Emma Liao
Equipment Rentals: YY Rentals
Gaffer: Zen
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