'One more hour in the Canary Islands', the new romantic and musical comedy by David Serrano

After 'Days of football' and 'Days of cinema', David Serrano has just released his third film. The director of photography Carlos Ferro with the help of an Arricam Studio and a Moviecam Compact shooting in 35mm has been able to create an atmosphere full of light and color.

Comments the director and screenwriter David Serrano in the Sensor de EPC that “times change but the feelings are the same, and when you fall in love you want to sing, dance and fly.” And in his new movie, One more hour in the Canary Islands, a romantic comedy and musical with touches of fantasy, there is room for all three things and much more. It just premiered in theaters last Friday and is his third film after Football days and movie days.

“When I was little and a classic American film comedy was on TV, my mother told me: 'Look, David, a movie about love and luxury,'” says the director. These films, which he liked so much as a child, have influenced the work of David Serrano, who already wrote the first script he wrote, The other side of the bed, wanted to pay tribute to those stories where a handsome boy falls in love with a pretty girl and after going through “all kinds of hardships” they reach a happy ending.

“Everything was fun, everyone was handsome and witty, everyone was well dressed, the places they visited were always spectacular, their houses huge and wonderful… everything was about love and luxury,” explains the director. In One more hour in the Canary Islands has sought to update the genre a bit. "Be more sincere and less idealistic. So almost all the characters are now mean and liars, the women are the ones who seduce and deceive to get their way and the man is that dark object of desire."

David Serrano also adds to EPC's Sensor that, as a director and screenwriter, the most one can aspire to is to make the audience happy, as already happened with The Other Side of the Bed. “Since it was released, it has been a rare week that someone hasn't told me how much fun they had watching the movie, how much they laughed and how happy they were watching it.” And this is what you want with One More Hour In The Canary Islands, have a fun time, with lots of laughter.

Carlos Ferro's experience

As for photography, for a romantic comedy and musical like this, an atmosphere full of light and color has been created. Something in which the work of director of photography Carlos Ferro has had a lot to do with.

At the end of filming last summer, Carlos Ferro told El Sensor some details of his work. In the article At the rhythm of traveling in 'One more hour in the Canary Islands', the director of photography talks to us about the aesthetics, the choice of the Kodak negative and the camera equipment, the prominence of the sequence shot, a formula that David Serrano really likes...

Filming lasted nine weeks on locations in Tenerife and Madrid. They shot in 35mm with an Arricam Studio and a Moviecam Compact, material supplied along with Hawk V optics by the rental house EPC. And the Scorpio and the MT400 also had their space in the filming.

Una hora más en Canarias es una producción de Telespan 2000 y LaZona Films en coproducción con Dynamo y con la participación de Televisión Española y Canal Plus. Tomás Cimadevilla es el productor, y en la producción ejecutiva, por la parte española, están María Angulo, Marta Pastor, José Herrero de Egaña, Ignacio Salazar-Simpson y el propio David Serrano. De la dirección de producción se hizo cargo Pablo Ramírez.