What was the approach chosen for “The Adventurers of Taste”?
The topic of food has already been covered a lot. We chose to look at the path of taste acquisition in children, but also on the relationship that the parent can have with food, which will generate eating behaviors. The idea is not to judge, but to allow everyone to think about their own relationship with food, and to become aware of the impact it can have on children.
When we prepare a subject like this, does the prerequisite consist of going and observing how things happen within homes?
It’s part of the work, of course, and there are also the editorial meetings, upstream, with the members of Prepare for tomorrow, made up of parents and professionals. They tell anecdotes and talk about speakers they have heard. I take notes, and I do my own research. I then suggest a writing to them, before going to dig deeper with the speakers.
Has your way of working changed?
We always follow the line of “Let’s prepare for tomorrow”, which is not to be judgmental and not to give recipes, not to crystallize things in the families we film. We try to refine our approach over the course of the documentaries. One thing is certain, it is that between the first films and today, we can observe a notable difference in treatment. I think we’re trying to get closer and closer to the observation sequences. The speakers always have an essential place, but the more we advance, the more the tendency is to reduce speech and offer this possibility of observation.
How long does each film take?
It takes five months of work spread over a year, including three weeks of filming, two months of post-production, including five to six weeks of editing. The only thing I don’t do is sound mixing!
