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“Live Again” is the tenth collaboration between British dance band Chemical Brothers and director duo Dom&Nic.
“It’s a trippy Groundhog Day-esque adventure story through multiple environments in a continuous dance performance by Josipa Kukor,” describes Promonews.
To achieve it they filmed long unbroken shots with background virtual environments switched live without edits.
“The woozy, wonky analog sounds and the dream-like lyric suggested a hallucinogenic visual journey following a character caught in a loop of death and rebirth. The hero in the film wakes or is reborn in a different environments ranging from deserts to nighttime neon city streets and cave raves to Martian worlds,” the directors told Promonews.
“This is an idea that could not really have been achieved with traditional filmmaking techniques. We created virtual CGI worlds and used long unbroken camera takes, without edits, moving between those different worlds seamlessly with our hero character.”
Dom&Nic’s production company Outsider brought together cinematographer Stephen Keith-Roach, production designer Chris Oddy and VFX facility Untold Studios, along with virtual production specialists from ARRI Solutions, Creative Technology and Lux Machina, all hosted on the ARRI Stage London.
Dom&Nic say that the band encouraged them to capture the feel of the track in the cinematic texture and look of the film.
“We were given the challenge to give it the visual equivalent of putting a clean sound through a broken guitar pedal to transform and degrade it into something unique. We love the way the film has an analog and messed up film look to it, it really adds to the visual trippy experience.”
Untold Studios real-time supervisor Simon Legrand added, “After designing seven bespoke virtual worlds in pre-production, we were then able to tweak elements on set, on the fly, giving the directors the freedom to play and experiment. This is the first time that virtual environments have been switched live on set in this way.”
Will Case, director of innovation at Creative Technology, confirmed, “It really pushed the boundaries of working in real-time workflows and technologies to bring to life Dom&Nic’s visually stunning promo.”
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