The original footage of the singer was pretty raw and harsh lightwise since
it was initially meant to be chroma-keyed. I wanted a smooth moviestar feel
so I took out almost all the blue from the image and added the Starglow
filter from Trapcode which burned out all the highlighted parts in a nice
way. To prevent the whole image from blurring away, I made a
black-and-white high contrast copy of the original footage which I layered
on top using the "Darker" transparency mode.

Before	After

To make the pumping pupil effect I motion-tracked the eye and then
connected a bulge effect to the frequencies of the bass drum using Sound
keys.

Pumping Pupil Movie

The bounce-zooms are a way of covering up the edit cuts between the two
camera takes to make it at least in theory a one-take film.

For the internal sequences, I built a huge 3D set of multi-layered comps
inside After Effects which I then animated a camera path through. I put out
all lights and attatched a spot to the camera to get a narrow feel. The
individual comps were then syncronized to the music using Sound Keys,
trying to get different frequencies controlling different figures. Finally
I made the camera tilt to the beat with Sound keys which I think really
opened up the 3D room and enhanced the feel of the rhythm affecting the
singer's system.

Internal Sequences Movie

On top of the whole final 3D comp I put the Starglow filter, which added
extra depth to the flat comps and created a warm organic feel.

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David Giese, February 2003

david@brilliant.nu