Gilligan Moss 'Choreograph' by Oscar Hudson
David Knight - 7th July 2015
Oscar Hudson has created a video for producer Gilligan Moss's distinctively skewed pop ode Choreograph that follows a tried-and-tested theme of exactly matching specific visuals to music elements, but then adds his own clever twist.
Repeated moves by family members around a young man about to tuck into breakfast would obviously be an intensive VFX job in normal circumstances. But closer inspection reveals this scenario was achieved for real, in-camera.
Not surprisingly, this required formidable organisation, including, as Oscar Hudson explains below, finding several sets of twins – and breaking lots of eggs. In the process he's created a sublime but eery vision of chaos - a time loop in which people do the same thing over and over, but continue to age as normal...
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OSCAR HUDSON:
"This film was massively inspired by Zbigniew Rybszynski’s classic animation ‘Tango’. I took the endless repetition from that film and tried to imagine what would happen if you transplanted those eternal cycles into a world where time still moves on as normal- so eggs accumulate, carpets wear through and people get old.
"On a practical level I wanted to try to achieve the characters repeating cycles in camera and without any compositing in post. So we built a set, hired lots of twins and choreographed all the action very precisely. I always like to do things in camera where possible, I really think it comes through in the final film - you just can’t fake the little imperfections that make something feel real.
"But the other big reason I avoid VFX is that I simply never learnt how to do them! I always want to be able to wrap my head around the mechanics of how we’ll achieve an effect and so these manual, set based tricks always really interest me."Â
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Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Oscar Hudson
- Producer
- Aaron Z. Willson
- Production Company
- Bad
- Production Manager
- Callum Harrison
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Ruben Woodin-Dechamps
- Focus Puller
- Spike Morris
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Leo Olesker
Art
- Art Director
- Luke Moran-Morris
Wardrobe
- Wardrobe
- Giorgia Liorsi
- Wardrobe
- Susan Daniel
- Hair
- Charli Williams
- Make-up
- Charli Williams
Choreography
- Choreographer
- Daisy Smith
- Choreographer
- Petra Casale
Editorial
- Editor
- Oscar Hudson
Agent
- Director's Representation
- OB Management
Commission
- Commissioner
- Connie Meade
- Label
- Amf Records
Other credits
Prod. Assistant
Melissa Giles
Set Dresser
Laura Castellano-Astruc
Set Builder
Dan Munro
Art Dept. Assistant
Alfie Fielding, Charlie Sykes
Art Dept. Runner
Jamie Yuan
Cast
Kimi Willson-Brandtner, Almar Khat, Linda Ekman, Claire Lane, Sue Parker-Nutley, Sue Parks, Charlotte Reidie, Francesca Reidie, Jamie Heath, Spencer Heath, Rory Galley, Matt Johnston
David Knight - 7th July 2015