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Pre-production 01.05.2000 - 31.07.2000 Once Yılmaz Erdoğan finalized his script, the co-directors Erdoğan and Ömer Faruk Sorak began a series of meetings. Sorak took on the cinematography as well. Soon, a technical team was gathered and a list of required equipment was drawn. Gevaş was chosen after a lengthy field trip across Hakkari and Van. And the Art Director Yaşar Kartoğlu's team launched the two months long effort of set building and site re-arrangement at the shooting location. Costume chief Ayçın Tar and her team reproduced thousands of items of clothing and footwear items based on nearly three months of on site research in the course of which over a hundred pieces of Van's traditional antique silver jewellery were collected for use as accessories. An English sound crew and steadycam operator were hired, and Soho Images Labs were contacted for the full lab and post-production work. $ 6000 was paid to the Turkish Radio Television News and Program Archives for the relevant set of 1974 TV screen shots. The evening news report of July 20, 1974, was re-shot reproducing the original news studio décor and logo of the period, with the same anchorman who read the bulletin a quarter of a century ago. A comprehensive research in private collections unearthed a wealth of 70's Turkish films and original movie posters, and scores of posters were reprinted to be used in Vizontele. Political parties' posters from early 70's were borrowed from the History Foundation's archive, and reprinted. National newspapers Hürriyet, Milliyet and Cumhuriyet graciously aided the filmmakers in reproducing 1974 issues. Emin's inventions and the set of his living arrangement in the film were designed and built by Irfan Sayar, the creator of a well-known 'nutty inventor' cartoon character. |
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