First Republic
1918 Czechoslovakia
and family series...
1918 Czechoslovakia
and family series...
Czech Television series FIRST REPUBLIC. Post-production and VFX was done by ACE POST studio. For about 9 months I did intensive alternating work on film locations and matte painting.
PROJECT
A family series set in the historical backdrop of Czechoslovakia between 1918-1945, the period of the so-called "First Republic", when modern Czech statehood was being formed. In this dramatic and unpretentious family television series, the stories of fictional characters are illustrated with historical locations. Thus, there has been quite an extensive creation of settings. The story is set primarily in the capital city of Prague and the Podolí district.
STORY
I worked on the preconception, studying historical documents such as maps and photographs from archives to roughly reconstruct historical sites. I then took several contemporary photographs of these exteriors, which we then refined into their "historical" form in the ACE studio.
(Alternative)
Prague - Podolí
Taking into account the story and the director's comments, I have reworked some of the realities later and they don't exactly match the actual layout of the time. In the case of the panorama, for example, it was a much smaller industry than shown in the film Some houses are missing and others are present, etc... Otherwise, I was thinking of very small details, such as the floating of wood from the Sumava mountains, etc..
