@WhiteRabbit Thanks for your comment. You are perfectly right, directing/shooting/editing such a documentary is complicated on every level, but everything depends on relationship with agency producer and client. I am working in Shanghai since 9 years and I was the first to produce Making Of for TV commercial in China. Nowadays, people are contacting me to do this type of work and they trust me enough to leave me free handed. Most of my requirement are mandatory: having a quiet room (which is always challenging in China) with my light set up for several interviews, having access to the action as close a possible... Editing is the most painful part, but it also depends on the care and the speed of decision from the client. This video could had been finished 3 monts earlier in this particular case...

@MRfanny Thanks for your comment. I tried to make this Making of also interesting by describing the difficulties to work in China as well, something often understimated by westrn based production asking us to shoot something for them in thi spart of the world. It is hard to imagine how simple requirement can become so complicated here and one of the best reward is to be able to finalize the project whatever happened on the way. For exemple, on the flying car crash, the distance was miscalculated and 1 of our camera was destroyed ( it is the reason why the footage stop abruptly). The last file was corrupted in ths shock and we just could use the start of the action when the car goes through the trailer.

@WhiteRabbit I am having the same love/hate relation with editing, especially when shots are coming from different cameras and different guys while being myself in charge of the complete project (my responsability if things get wrong). While importing the shots, I discover mistakes or waste of great footage due to unwised camera move or set up. I always try to educate my camera crew before any project being as precise as possible to teach them what I am looking for and what type of mistake or move they should avoid. It works well on this project and as I didnt want to deal with all the footage, I hired a local team to pre-select the best shot and start up the basic edit. Problem, local Chinese have no clue how to properly organize a project with logical folder classification. Plus, they got all folder name and some document in Chinese mixed up with brken English (worst than mine). THis caused me some great bugs in the past as previous version of Premiere were not abe to accept Chinese file name in an English project... Globally, they still save me lots of time, but I had to work harder to compensate the mess they started with.

@jleo Thanks a lot for your comment. Highly appreciated. People sometime get me wrong when I post my video here and think I am selling something, but as I am based in China and as 99% of the people surfing on this type of website are from another part of the world, it is not an efficient way to advertize myself. I am just happy to share things I am doing in a location many viewer here doesn't know. And best of all is when people appreciate my work. By the way, do not hesitate to click on the "like" button in Vimeo if you do like it. So far, I got more than 100 plays and 300 loads, but not a single "like"...

@WhiteRabbit You are on the good track! I had a chance to start my career as a photo journalist (very long ago) and I was very early trained to consider my creation on the field (both pictures and notes) as only the starting point of a complete workflow needed to tell the story properly to readers. It means I had to come back with plenty of information and lots of shots variation (point of view and composition) to both cover the whole story and to offer enough room for the designer to build up an exciting layout. I am just doing the same thing nowadays in video production as a one man crew most of the time (directing/lighting/shooting/editing) and I think that to become an efficient director or cameraman, it is important to leanr FIRST how to do a proper edit. It is the best way to understand what is mandatory on a shoot and what type of things you abslolutely need to take care of.

Sorry Guys. Client asked to remove the video and I have to respect that decision! Sorry about that