Music Video / Live Visuals for Sonia Calico from Taiwan
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song Iridecent Vision
Sonia’s Vison : “Iridescent vision, Can you see the lights?” “Iridescent vision, Angels don’t distract ! « «Love» «Binary Stars» «Married by the gods” This is track is picturing the vision when human civilization meets futuristic technology. Ancient tribe chanting telling the long journey about how we get here. Layering primitive, traditional almost ceremony like sounds to discuss how we developed and trying to find some redemption from it. At the 2nd part, the mood changes, bringing in acid (synthesizer) sounds which represents the sound of technology, it has it’s minimalistic, efficiency, laying from a reduced rhythm and gradually mix in the chanting and tribal sounds. Its gets more and more epic throughout the track and lead the track to some point which represent the peak of the human civilization is just an illusion as well. When Taj sings ”Binary Stars” «Married by the gods”, it’s almost like the revelation from a goddess figure, rhythm goes back to the original, percussive pattern, all the glamorous illusion will end, we all have to bow and be humble in front of the higher force of universe.
Celso’s Proposition PART 1 : Mood : Ancient Civilization, spirit-based, primitive, raw, simple, few tools, large mind, religion, belief, sorcery, shamans. Puting force together to make this small, human sized civilization into something way bigger (the current globalized industrial civilization). Wise people, tribe’ chief, shamans assembly/ceremony in order to connect with divine forces. Transfer power. Receive vision. People, Gods and Nature are interconnected. They feel each other’s soul. No virtual or physical things blocking or interfering with this connection. (The opposite of today’s civilization) Movements : gravitation,rotation, centrifugal force PART 2 : Mood : Modern Civilization, Speed, Don’t think deep, saturated, too many things, Explosion of Flavor, over consumption, paradoxes, vulgar, flashing, no god. Lost in madness, infernal loop. Virtual or physical things blocking or interfering with spiritual connections. Blindness prevails. Movements : gitering/shaking, phone camera like alternate with stable shots? PART 3 : Breakdown Mood : Rise of neo-humanity, Prophecy Accomplishment. Healthy mix between modernity and spirituality. Ultimate Radiance. Peace Balance. Unstoppable bullet. Truth. Wisdom. Serenity. Happiness Movements : constant traveling ?
Technical descritpion : Intro black. Pussy jungle fast travel. Things aligned in circle. Spiritual ceremony look. Everything (organic, mineral objects, lights) horizontal rotation camera included. Intensity density going up. Still very dark but bright spots. Jungle background, real vegetation ? God Taj’s head appears.(c4d clothes effect perforation) Mouth moves with the “lyrics”. Can I make it look good ? Is it a good idea ? But anyway this head has to move. Before Intensity peak : going through a portal to the modern civilization. After Intensity peak : everything black First song first light, trip through portal reached destination. Inside blurry modern civilization womb. Start of second part. Slow travel into womb. Light reflections, water like. Shipwreck of Taj’s head drowning/floating in the abyss. Eyes shut/bind/blocked. Head always in the frame but camera jittering more and more, motion blur. Environment is charging in entensity too. More and more lights, neon lights, flickering. We the lyrics are singing her head doesn’t move. She is dead, god is dead. Exploring different direction high frequency but not stable. Random. Neon lights. Nothing steady, vertigo, illusion ? Can I ?. Destruction Transtravelings Visuals are not synchronized with her voice. Atmosphere still a bit dark but negative dark. Heavy. Dangerous. Sick. Irrational textures. Environment is not responding to Taj’s voice. They don’t give a fuck. They are blind, they are deaf. Everything accelerating again. Infernal loop. Not serene. Music rise. Arpeggiator. Deformation. Madness. Bad trip. Silent destruction. Head centered eyes open up, light beams. Lips moving : “Iridescent vision Can you see the light”
1 - Setup phone camera DON’T USE A REAL CAMERA. USE YOUR PHONE. IPhone is good, any high end Android phone is good too. Don’t use portrait mode on iphone. Use standard photo mode. Don’t use burst mode even if it looks tempting. Don’t zoom. Keep the default wide angle.
2 - Location Outside during a cloudy day at 2pm is the best. The background of the scene needs to be perfectly still and contrasted. NO CARS NO PEOPLE. Don’t go in a middle of a field. Go where there are things around you at approximately 3 meters of the model. You need a comfortable seat with a backrest. Inside can be OK too but make sure you respect all of the above (Things of the background should be around far enough to let the photographer take the pictures in a circle around the model). ALSO make sure you get a good light setup inside. Homogenous light. Diffuse light. NO reflection on the skin or the hair. Lights should not appear in the shots.
3 - Model The person being shot needs to be perfectly still. Her face must NOT change. She needs to be comfortably seated with her back deep in the backrest. The muscles of her body (including the face) need to be relaxed, not flexed. Her eyes need to be open. She needs to fix a point in the background straight in front of her. She must not smile. She should not wear makeup.
4 - Photo Shooting Technique Take about 150 pictures (don’t think about the number just take many pictures and it will quickly be 150. Don’t take too much though.) Be careful that her eyes are open on the pictures. Use your phone VERTICALLY not horizontally. Make sure the lens is clean. DON’T SHAKE. Be sure to be stable before clicking the shutter. Always click on the model on the screen to focus on her. Or if you don’t be sure it’s focused. You need to think about a sphere around the model. You need to shoot a lot of picture on the perimeter of this sphere with a camera angle always pointing to the model. I like to think about 2 sphere : - One framing from the chest to above the head (head in the center). - One framing from the neck to slightly above the head (always head in the center). DON’T FORGET pictures of the top of the model (N°3 in the example on the side) But also picture from a low angle to see her chin.
I make it sound complicated and long but no worries it’s easier than we think and it’s about 5 minutes to take all the pictures. If you think you fucked up. Please delete everything and do it again. Once is done. Copy all the pictures of one shoot into the folder “TAJ 3D SCAN” of the “Sonia Calico - Iridescent Vision” google drive project. Also, please film a close up of your lips singing the lyrics if possible in 4K (with your phone).
If you have any questions, please contact me by email : celsourroz@gmail.com or on facebook : h ttps://goo.gl/Ah5o1Y
There were stills from the music video
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