Frankfurt Trophy 2024 — Event trailer
Media production for the international competition. Event trailer: Frankfurt am Main. Film production for the 2024 Frankfurt Trophy, an international wine and…
Film production for the 2024 Frankfurt Trophy, an international wine and spirits competition. Shot in the historic ballroom: hundreds of judges at long tables under chandeliers, the flags of the competing nations on the walls. The film works with interviews rather than commentary — among them Martin Scharff, honorary president and chef, on the competition as a gastronomic event. Making a tasting work on film means letting people talk, because the real thing happens in the glass.
A hall with hundreds of judges is a problem of scale. From below you see backs, from the side a single row; only from the gallery does it become visible how many tables there are — and that number is the news of an international competition.
The flags on the walls do the rest of the explaining. Without commentary they say how many countries are taking part, and they give the frame its only strong colors in a room of white, wood and chandeliers.
Interviews instead of narration have a practical advantage: someone explaining a tasting while doing it delivers picture and sound at once. A voice-over would describe what can be seen anyway — and what cannot be seen in a tasting, no narrator can show either.
- Year
- 2024
- Place
- Frankfurt am Main
Watch the film: Frankfurt Trophy 2024 — Event trailer (3:02)