'The Escapist' - Music Video - Sequence Synopsis

This is the notes for the details for the surreal sequence I am leading for the music video for the song 'The Escapist' with Michal Zagorski.

It is based in VFX and compositing.

Concept image. Going for more of a 'cartoony' bat/style.

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The Escapist

Surreal sequence details

IN VIDEO WE GET TO:

Extreme long shot - car driving at night

Long shot - car stops, lights start to flow out of headlights slightly into sky

Extreme Long shot - lights expanding into sky

Long shot - Kyle gets out of car/opens door, and lights sharply snap back into headlights

Side of door shot - Kyle getting out of car and going to the boot

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After boot shot of bats' eyes and rustling

POV of bats looking at Kyle - Bats fly/swarm out of boot towards Kyle covering him completely but sometimes revealing his eyes (particle system as well as 2-and-a-half-D bats of varying scales)

      Bat size width of Kyle's face/half size of face

      Millions of bats

Long shot - Kyle at boot, bats (lit by both headlights only) fly/swarm towards sky past both headlights to either side of the screen. 

Extreme-extreme long shot - They change direction like swarms of birds in sky

   Bats aim to cover all of sky

   They then hang in sky upside-down, shuffling

   They sync to black

   We see their cartoony eyes blinking, then glowing like stars

   A red moon comes in

   This looks very beautiful

After this - we see the ground as an x-ray - roots, rocks and stones, moles and giant ants building things, skeletons

   Like death and ugliness

Bats then fly off dragging the sun behind

Sky and ground fades out to reveal the original shot.

THEN REST OF VIDEO...

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I am now storyboarding this sequence.

Working with Thomas Hogben on this shot, and possibly others. This continues onto the start of next year/semester 2. Particle tests have already been created, and look promising. A pre-vis is planned to be created by the beginning of this December.