Jos Rakastat - The Feature Film

A Sweet Story!

“Jos Rakastat” (If You Love), a romantic musical fantasy from director-legend Neil Hardwick sets the stage for the film year 2010.

Based on a fairy tale by a much loved, truly old-school Finnish storyteller Zacharias Topelius and adapted for 21.st century big screen by Katja Kallio.

Lead by VFX supervisors Tuomo Hintikka and Juuso Selin, the Generator Post VFX team Sami Haartemo, Jari Hakala, Anders Helle, Matti Kaihola, Hugo Kiekeben and Juuso Selin contributed 70 VFX shots.

One of the trickiest and maybe one of the most elaborate (and memorable) scenes of the film is a dancing duetto by the sea. Careful pre-production was required and a motion control rigged RED camera was used for capturing the performance, finalized with heavy 2D compositing and seamless editing. We are not ashamed to admit that we like the result!

This contemporary but still so very classic storytelling sweetness for all audiences was created by choreographer Osku Heiskanen, editor Harri Ylönen and composer Leri Leskinen. The song “Jos sä tahdot niin” is sung by Samuli Edelman and Jippu, both certainly delivering extra sweet performance.

Lots of credit naturally goes to the actors Elli Vallinoja and Chike Ohanwe and of course we were happily again back at working on the images shot by the director of photography – Pini Hellstedt. His latest RED footage graded by colourist Pasi Mäkelä.

Produced for Juonifilmi by Mr. Jarkko Hentula. We were happily assisted in invaluable ways by the charming production manager Mrs. Hanna Virolainen.

Check www.josrakastat.fi for more romantic stuff.