A typical day at the Louvre

Every day is different at the Louvre. None of them looks a like. We spend the week preparing and organizing our next filming shoots and events. We contact the different departments about the availability of their curators and the museum's room for documentaries or press projects.

On tuesday, when the museum is closed to the public, we host the productions to take images when no one is around. As it is the only day closed, there is various activities that day (artpieces movements, private visits and events) and we have to make sure that we can manage to film without being disturbing to the Louvre activities as a museum.

In order to organize a shoot at the Louvre, there is various steps to consider. We start the day by collecting the different mail we received and answering them according to their doability, our planning and the link between the project and the Louvre museum actuality. We then have a filming commitee to choose the projects we're going to give permits to film. We meet with the teams, and make sure that all of their questions are answered before the D-day.

We usually have two cinema projects through the year. We receive a thousand of people (decor, actors, HMU, producers). All of our team works on every details on the set so the Louvre and its Artpieces are secured. It can be quite dangerous to have so many people around the museum, we are helped by security agents to make sure everything is ok. The rest of the year, we work on smaller projects for Press, documentaries or social media. Each team member is atributted to a project. We approximatively have 30 files each year for each of us to organize.