Jinxed and Stabbed

In the beginning

Thierry Gschwind who had already made some special effects, wanted to make a bigger project. It was clear from the beginning that it must be a spoof. Because Thierry and Fabienne like to watch Charmed and Buffy (but not for the same reason), it was unanimously decided to make fun of both series. Another reason is that there is no serious fan film about both series.

How the movie was created

First it was planned to film only a few sketches, because this wouldn’t give to much work. However after one week there were so many ideas for sketches that TG decided to make a movie. FG set to work and linked all sketches in one script. As base story the usual “The world goes tomorrow under”-scenario was chosen, because it comes in each second episode from both series.
Suddenly the script had already 99 pages. After some concerns, both began to work motivate on the movie.
Actor had to be found, the bluescreen was painted, Props we constructed. Costumes were sewed. Film equipment had to be organised.

This was a lot of stuff and Fabienne’s room like a mix of horror chamber, armoury and tailoring. Thierry’s room would pass as a professional film studio, if there had been no bed in the middle.

How everything was put in practice

The first filming days were set for mid April 2005. Even if Thierry and Fabienne were very nervous on first day, everything worked without problems. The actors came on time and there were no technical problems. Everything was a bit chaotic and the set looked afterwards like a battlefield. But everything went smoothly.
The shooting days passed and became each time more well-rehearsed. The scene were shot faster, the actors became better. After some, in August, the end of the shooting was nearing. Around june 2007 a few scene were shooted again, since we were now able to add more special effects.
The next one an a half years were only use to finalise the post production. 3D-animation, special effects, dubbing, music and doing the subtitle took a lots of time. But finally the end was near. After the premiere of the movie in decmeber 2008, we had one month left to finalise the bonus material for the DVD.  For the compression of the three download-movie we needed 180 hours and supplemental 96 hours to upload the movies on internet.