Alex and I met years back in Brighton and kept in touch, back then I was mostly painting but was starting to get into animation so it was great to reconnect years later and be able to help Alex with some music visuals.
Working on a budget of almost zero, I went to the woods with a GoPro 360 and Wirral camera cable and capture a series of slow movements through the trees.
Then I cut a series of HD crops with beat-matched pans, tilts and zooms, and ran the full edit into Notch’s particle system, ran a few treatments and took that back into Premiere to cut them together again.
The track itself was written during Covid at a time when everything ‘normal’ felt like a distant mindset, and escaping into our imaginations was the only way through, I took my own turn on this with the local woodlands being a new environment (having moved cities in the middle of lockdown) so I tried to make a space that was both alive with imagination but also unfamiliar and a bit disorientating.
See more here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/147258753/Alex-Banks-Recall-Mindset-Official-Video
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