STILLS FROM THE ANIMATION
The MAKING OF PICTURES
The Rythmes "Digitale" Music video is a VERY ambitious stop frame / live action animation project, the brainchild of quirky director, Riffy Powerz. Riffy has directed various film projects, but had never directed or made an animation before. Yet on hearing this upbeat, melodic french song she knew her ideas were best manifested within animation- she's a girl who loves her challenges!
Upon researching various technical processes, Riffy directed a team of over 10 people to shoot this quirky music video in the space of one month in a tiny studio in Bermondsey, London. On first glance this project seemed absolutely impossible to achieve on a shoe string budget and with very little resources it seemed MAD to attempt this! But with a fantastic team and Riffy's distinct visions frame by frame enabled them to make this dual world of paper and Digitale Sanguine's world come to life!
After a fast paced month of shooting via greenscreen, stop frame animation and live action set ups, the challenge was now to put everything together in the edit. With the use of FInal cut pro, Photoshop and After effects, the most patient and fantastic VFX editors Janka Troeber and Matthew Thomas worked painstakingly over 6 months to put together all the images shot to make this dual fantasy world evolve in one space.
Here are some images documenting our filmmaking process shot from the viewpoint of the our musician himself: Digitale Sanguine!
Making The Video : RYTHMES "DIGITALE"
Riffy Powerz is a visual artist and filmmaker with the aim to focus her career as an up and coming director. Since training as a video artist at Central Saint Martins, she has gone on to generate a vast amount of experience working in the arts and film production from directing short films, art films, music videos, co-producing a feature film which have been screened in various festivals worldwide and channels such as the BBC, Arte creative and BFI. She has also actively collaborated and worked with artists: Larissa Sansour, Hassan Hajjaj and Oreet Ashery.
With her quirky bold style she looks to tell stories in the most visual and imaginative way through challenging filmmaking processes. (This animation music video is her first debut animation.)
THE FILM TEAM
Riffy Powerz
Director and Producer
Felix Schmilinsky
Director of Photography
Janka Trober
2nd VFX Editor
Matthew Thomas
Lead VFX Editor
Vincent Descourtieux
Production Assistant / Animator
Becky Weston
Production Assistant / Animator
Nicholas Hearst
Production Assistant / Animator
Katherine Hearst
Production Assistant / Animator
Eloise Black
Actress (Girl in the paper world)
Linden Walcott-Burton
Actor
Darcy Vanhinsbergh
Actor
Winona Guy
Actress
Maria Louis
Actress
Felix is an experienced Cinematographer of fiction and documentary films as well as commercial / corporate projects. He learned his craft at renowned film schools in Bournemouth and Prague. Over the past six years he has shot over a dozen short films as well as numerous music videos and commercials. To date he has shot films in the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Croatia, Guatemala and the USA. He's amazing!
Janka is a cool up and coming filmmaker and editor based in London. She has worked within various mediums from short films, music videos, corporate film and documentaries, which she has produced through her co-founded production company called Reeldeft. She is also currently working with Guerilla Tv as a assistant editor and always endeavours to produce contemporary thought provoking work.
Matthew is an experienced film maker, animator and VFX editor. Since studying Fine Art at Newcastle University, Matt has produced films using different processes, including digital animation, time-slice animation and stereoscopic 3D and has directed and edited factual films. Matt draws upon strong skills in animation, compositing, editing and sound design to create animations such as this recent promotional film for Chemistry and idents and title sequences. Matt also has extensive teaching experience in film making and vfx and has led creative workshops for galleries including Tate Modern, Serpentine Gallery and South London Gallery.
Vincent is a young filmmaker from Paris, France and is studying at Kingston University. He has a big appetite for films particularly inspired by the works of Ingmar Bergman and Agnes Varda. He endeavours to create more experiemental and avante garde works that are poetic in narrative and looks to develop a career as a director in the film industry.
Becky is a young filmmaker and animator whose intricate detail to attention enables her to make the most beautiful images through various processes of stop frame animation and slow motion captured images. She is currently studying at Kingston University exploring various methods of storytelling through more avante garde and experimental filmmaking.
Winona is young aspiring actress from Cornwall and has come to London in developing her career as an actor. She is currently training at the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.
Maria is a fantastic actress who has recently completed her final year at 'The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts' an NCDT/CDS accredited Drama School, which is one of the many prestigious Drama Institutions that offer training in and around London.
ALRA dedicates much of its scheduled time to recorded art, and so this has gave her a good amount of experience in front of the camera, however her passionate for theatre and voice work still remains very strong.
She has recently signed with 'The Markham Agency' and is a London based actor.
Darcy is a refreshing up and coming actor who trained at ALRA drama. He has worked performed on various productions particularly on stage as well as blossoming career in film and tv.
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Linden Walcott-Burton graduated from ALRA with a BA Hons in acting in 2012, where he was sponsored by both the Wayne Sleep and Cameron Mackintosh foundations.
He has recently finished training in Stratford Upon Avon with the Royal Shakespeare Company, having been selected as 1 of 2 actors for their 'British Bursary' (which takes place only once every 2 years), working with people such as Cicely Berry, Struan Leslie and Artisitc Director Greg Doran for 2 weeks. He's currently scheduled to manage the intake courses for the National Youth Theatre for summer 2013, and is set to perform in the stage adaptation of the film 'To Sir With Love' on its UK tour from September through til late November.
In addition to his acting and facilitating work, Linden is also the Events and Development Producer for TriForce Promotions – the company behind the acclaimed MonologueSlamUK at Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Since graduating from Arts Educational School in 2011, Eloise has been gaining valuable experience, in both stage and screen. One of Eloise's short films Of Guilt and Grief has just finished playing at Cannes Festival and has been accepted into many other film festivals. Eloise is excited to start filming 'Sixth Monkey' a new feature in which she plays the lead which will be out in 2014 with cinema distribution.
Eloise has just finished playing Sybil in a contemporary version of A Picture of Dorian Gray with Second Skin Theatre. Reviews can be found on her website.
Katherine is a talented illustrator and art director based in London. Her works are quirky and intricately detailed working in various mediums of drawing, painting and animation. She has also assisted in the art direction of feature films such as Anna Karina.
Nicholas is a big lover of cinema and film and has worked on the sets of various large film productions in looking to develop his career as an up and coming director.