Giovanni Sollima - Sogno ad Occhi Aperti (Daydream), Pt. 1
Truly one of the most amazing music videos I’ve ever seen, and one you’ll want to share with your friends. Here is the description of Part 1 of the video, in the words of its creator/director, Lasse Gjertsen. This is a music video for the italian cellist Giovanni Sollima (www.sonzogno.it), on two of his compositions: “Terra Aria” and “Concerto Rotondo”. On the six arms parts, which by the way took most of the time to make, I filmed Sollima playing the different layers of cello after each other. I then edited the video frame by frame in Photoshop (remember, it’s 25 frames per second of video), cutting his arms out from the other layers and pasting it on top, matching the movement of the cello. This was done approx. 4000 times, by myself. The clouds were actually filmed in my backyard, sped up 1250 times. The birds were filmed in my town, Larvik, Norway on clear blue sky, so that I could use blue screen keying to put them on top of the clouds. It’s hard to notice, but the birds are moving in half speed slow motion. I also had to stabilize the motion of the birds, since I filmed it with handhelt camcorder. The sequence was cut together using After Effects and Premiere. The forest, river sequence was photographed in a forest in Arona, Italy. I took a picture approx. every five meters, and morphed the images together using WinMorph, matching the pace of the music. The zooming sequence is very hard to explain. Basically, the first 8 seconds after it starts zooming and when you see Mr Sollima’s face is real photos. The rest inbetween are “painted” in Photoshop by me. The rest of this part is merely editing in Premiere and After Effects.
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