Working with Igor Studio, Glassworks and Visualise I was cinematographer for this epic exploration of the heart of classical music. Guided by Gustavo Dudamel, take a stunning virtual reality journey in to the music.
I worked with Visualise who captured and produced all of the live action content for Symphony. This involved the planning and production of over 150 crew, extras and talent in Barcelona. The production was planned for over 8 months, scenes were captured in the Gran Teatro Liceu and in the hidden secret workshop of the violin maker, David Bague. Glassworks created all of the CG and VFX for all the other scenes and the overall vision and creative direction for the project was by Igor Cortadellas.
We travel to the heart of music, clearing a path for the viewer to understand the torrent of emotions that the music by the greatest composers has to offer.
With SYMPHONY, this new audience will have the chance to experience music from within an orchestra, without sheet music and closer and more intimately than has ever been experienced before.
The scenes were both natural and dramatic, as you can see here with the shot of David Bague, the violin maker in his studio in Barcelona. The director and crew were able to view the takes live, on headset by a local live 360 stream from the camera to a remote room outside the workshop, hence keeping the crew inside to a minimum.
Each of David’s violins is worth tens of thousands of pounds so it was vital for his sanity and to get a relaxed man on camera that the crew was able to operate and review remotely.
The ability to capture scenes like this in low light, in 360, was granted by the use of the Meta One camera. This camera has unparalleled quality in it’s dynamic range and the prototype was finished for this project, the first two Meta One’s in the world were used on this project.
Campaign: Symphony Brand: La Caixa Client: Visualise > Glassworks > IgorStudio > La Caixa Director: Igor Cortadellas Director of Photography : James Medcraft Producer: Will Currie Partners: Meta Camera Gaffer : Eduardo Bonilla Serrano Location: Barcelona
