THE ASK
Holland America Line was launching Koningsdam, the first ship in its new Pinnacle class, and commissioned Faculty to film the chefs of its Culinary Council. Each chef would be documented in a film made to play on kiosks aboard the ship, so the films had to work inside an interface, not just as standalone pieces.
Faculty filmed six chefs across three countries: three in New York, one in Florida, one in the Netherlands, and one in Australia. They were David Burke, Jonnie Boer, Mark Best, Elizabeth Faulkner, Jacques Torres, and Rudi Sodamin. Each chef was filmed in documentary form and demonstrating a dish. Faculty’s creative director produced the shoots, managing crew, equipment, and the customs paperwork for moving gear internationally, and shot as B camera.
Six films made this Faculty’s largest edit to that point, with several editors and an After Effects artist working from the same footage. The creative director built the post pipeline to support it, including a NAS server so every editor could reach the same media and editing RAIDs to handle the data load, and gave technical oversight to post production overall.
The films were designed to play on multiple kiosks, so the creative director also served as creative director on the user experience, working with a commissioned UX company on the interface.
THE
APPROACH
The Result
The films launched with the ship as planned.
Faculty later returned to film two more chefs, Ethan Stowell and Andy Matsuda, and the wine critic and journalist James Suckling.