You are Wanted is a story about an
ordinary family father who is
being destroyed in
the digital world.
The second season has incredible
pressure from the outside.
With the whole world looking at
Berlin and Lukas Franke caught
in the crossfire.
"You have no idea what
it's like to be hunted."
The challenge in season two was to
work as efficiently as possible.
In terms of cinematography, the goal
was to be as dynamic as possible
and to create as many
cool shots as possible.
I was looking for new tools on the
market which also delivered
quality and high standards
we needed for this project.
I decided to use a drone throughout
the entire production.
The advantage of working with
a drone is obvious:
Fly up and down quickly and
get a brilliant shot!
It takes a few hours to setup
a cable cam or crane.
This technology opens up new
possibilities of how we can
work on set.
It's amazing how extremely
small and lightweight
the camera attached
to the drone is.
However it has a 35mm sensor and
delivers comparable quality to
a big cinema camera.
The use of drones has definitely
increased and we're not only using
them for traditional wide shots
which you would've done
with helicopters in the past.
But we are also increasingly
capturing shots which look like
they're shot from a
cable cam or steadycam.
Drones are more flexible,
easier and faster to use.
My favourite drone shot
is from episode two
when Thomas goes to Nelly.
We're flying through an array of
balconies and this doesn't look
like an aerial shot at all because
it is a very tight space.
These are shots where
you usually think:
Wow, I would've had to do something
really complicated with ropes and
we would have had to
remove them in post-production.
But achieving the same effect with
a drone was very easy.
In the tunnel car sequence we also
used the drone to capture
incredible shots flying next
to and above cars.
It was also very nice to use the
DJI Ronin 2 this year and not to
be limited by which camera and
how the camera was used.
This enabled us to be more flexible
in our choice of camera.
In season two, the audience can
definitely look forward to an
emotional rollercoaster.
It really gets to the heart
of the Franke family.
It's good entertainment, which
provides you with food for thought
that's genuine but at the same
time is a bit like a fairy tale.
