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MICRO MIRACLES

CHEIL WORLDWIDE, Seoul / SAMSUNG / 2024

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Silver Spikes Asia
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Overview

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In this film, we open the scene with an engineer in a laboratory, observing a semiconductor chip through a microscope. The film cuts to the engineer's point of view and explores what he sees on the chip. Every time it gets magnified, buildings and mountains emerge, building villages on the chip. When finally magnified to 1500x, the film dives in to the different aspects of lives and technology formed in the microscopic world. It features models of everyday lives like a girl video-calling her friend and an athelete running with a prosthetic leg. It also shows advanced technology like self-driving cars and rockets. After featuring all the different models, camera zooms out and return to the engineer's point of view through the microscope. The engineer takes his eye away from the lens with a face astonished by the wonders and fade to black on screen and ends.

Background:

Samsung Semiconductor is a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology. Semiconductors are ubiquitous and fundamental to all electronics. They appear in space and in our pocket - pretty much in every technology we experience and see.

However the impact of these semiconductors is invisible to most people as they have no real idea what they are or who might make them. So we decided to make a film to deliver the micro miracles brought to life through the invisible nanoscopic technology - semiconductors.

In order to do so, we focused on the features of semiconductors. Instead of going big to deliver the outstanding impact it has on us, we decided to bring the everyday aspects of our lives to the size so small that it can only be viewed under a microscope - to the size of the details of wafer thin semiconductors, just where it all started.

Tell the jury about the ambitions & challenges of production process.

In this unique film, brought to life by techniques unprecedented in commercial filmmaking, we celebrate Samsung Semiconductors, the nanoscopic, unsung heroes of technological progress by featuring models so small, we can't see with our naked eye. “Micro Miracles” uses state-of-the-art 3D micro printing to depict technological applications of semiconductors. Models are designed using a 3D photogrammetry scanning system and fabricated through two photon nanolithography. Models are so small that their details are microscopic in size - a 50th of the width of human hair. The small details couldn’t be captured with traditional filming techniques. To capture them, we used a unique scanning electron microscope using electrons. To manage this in a cinematic style, we collaborated with microscopist Stefan Diller to use a system called nanoflight®, allowing microscopic worlds to be captured with dynamic camera moves.

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