How do you cover 3,000 years of conflict in thirty seconds? That was the challenge presented by CNN’s epic new original series: Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury.
In order to represent the six major battles that have shaped Jerusalem, CNN created the concept of “Sands of Time,” featuring artifacts of war left strewn about in the sands surrounding the desert city. The wind reveals the buried elements, and through those reveals we establish a timeline, going back as far as David versus Goliath to the Six-Day War between Israel and a coalition of three Arab states.
CNN brought this concept to Santa Monica, Calif.-based Minted Content for the shoot, edit and finishing. The result was the above trip through the times and sands of the city, culminating in the reveal of modern Jerusalem.
Jerusalem: City of Faith and Fury, narrated by Ewan McGregor, airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CNN.
CREDITS
Client: CNN Worldwide
Chief Marketing Officer: Allison Gollust
Senior Vice President: Rick Lewchuk
Vice President, Group Creative Director: Whit Friese
Creative Director: Sean Houston
Marketing Director: Lara Hurst
Senior Writer/Producer: Nicole Giles
Senior Design Manager: Brandon Campbell
Marketing Production Assistant: Jaimee Rindy
Senior Director of Production: Matt Barnett
Senior Production Manager: Nichole Goralnik
Production Resource Manager: Denise Patierno
Editor: Andy Garland
Production Agency: Minted Content
Director: Dan Gifford
Executive Producer: Lance O’Connor
Executive Producer: Edina Sallay
Producer: Sean Barney
Directory of Photography: Lol Crawley
Production Designer: Alexander Delgado
Edit: Cut+Run
Executive Producer: Amburr Farls
Managing Director: Michelle Eskin
Senior Producer: Brian Mulvey
Editor: Luc Giddens
Assistant Editor: Kelly Henson
Sound, Mix: Vaudeville Sound
Executive Producer: Annabelle Dunbar-Whittaker
Audio Engineer: Ben Freer
VFX: MPC
Executive Producer: Karen Anderson
Producer: Chris Preston Barnes
Senior Producer: Elissa Norman
Line Producer: Zahid Khan
Creative Director: Morten Vinther
Colourist: Ricky Gausis
Lead Compositor: Chris Green
Compositor: Todd Sarsfield
Shoot Supervisor: Daniel Mellitz
Digital Matte Painter: Daniel Bayona
Tracking: Nishant Ekka
Clean up: Sangeetha M
Roto: Prabhakaran Murugan
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