First I must go a little bit back in time to the making of “Lucid”.
We bought a Nikon D90 to make the music video for song named “Lucid” last year. Camera and the video quality is awesome eventhough it takes a lot of time to get the settings correct compared to the usual way to film with camcorder. One of the most annoying thing was the flickering that happened due to our 50hz electricity and using artificial lightning. We wanted the video to be dark and melancholy so we used very little lightning.
I think the video for “Lucid” ended up to be very intense and worth the extra work. The lense we used was a sharp Sigma 30mm 1.4 that performed very good in the low light conditions.
Here is “Lucid” :
This is how the original material looked like. By the time of the filming we used to rehearse in the same place with band End Of You so the space was a bit limited. Nothing in the background that you cannot fix afterwards, right?
As we were very happy with the quality of the camera, we decided to use the same setup with the “I Am Happy” video too but this time we would be shooting only images, no video at all.
Yes. Still images. Photographs. A lot of photographs. Fortunately we were able to book a good quality greenscreenstudio with proper light equipment to work with.
We shot a little bit over 12 000 still images during the 2 days shooting period. After couple of days editing, 1630 images were deleted and we were left with 10370 images that should be animated. Camera performed quite well, so we were able to shoot 4.5 frames / second with “low” quality (meaning a picture sized 2144 x 1424 pixels).
10370 images were then animated as 9fps video so that means we got us 127 different scenes for the video. All editing will be done in the native resolution so the material will be sharper than 1080p HD video.
The idea is to make the video look surreal and I will write about creating the surroundings in part 2. The trick we are using on the animated material is to turn 9fps animation to 25fps by using custom Neverdice magic.
I made a video for you from one scene where Toni is playing the chorus of the song. The scenery is still missing but I will update on that later: