Giovanni Sollima - Sogno ad Occhi Aperti (Daydream) PART 1

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Directed by Lasse Gjertsen
Copyrights: Casa Musicale Sonzogno, Milan, 2007

This is a music video for the italian cellist Giovanni Sollima, on two of his compositions; "Terra Aria" and "Concerto Rotondo". Enjoy!

www.sonzogno.it

So this is the project I've been working on for the last 5 months, and heres how part 1 of it is made:

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 ca 4000 times, by myself.

The clouds were actually filmed in my backyard, sped up 1250 times. The birds we're 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 ca. 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. Allright!

Channel: Music
Uploaded: May 10, 2007 at 1:24 am
Author: lassegg

Length: 00:06:20
Rating: 4.89
Views: 797405

Tags: lasse gjertsen giovanni sollima music video italian cellist cello classical experimental dream trippy ass and titties

Video Comments:
BrunObannanii (October 7, 2008 at 5:08 pm)
that's amazing
swimfan4511 (October 7, 2008 at 3:16 am)
oh my goodness

this is amazing !


wow

i have goosebumps
maybesmiling (October 6, 2008 at 12:38 pm)
This is so beautiful! I just love it !!
10diegosoccer10 (September 30, 2008 at 1:35 am)
this is trippy as fuck lmao
FacistDuffelBag (September 29, 2008 at 9:18 pm)
PURE BRILLIANCE!!! The song and video(1 and 2)have been in my dreams for a week straight now...
jikkaduz (September 28, 2008 at 3:39 pm)
this is amazing!!
chrisisacamal (September 27, 2008 at 1:24 am)
AWESOME!!!
Rufert (September 26, 2008 at 6:41 am)
Holy sh*t man, this is totally amazing.
lucyloop (September 25, 2008 at 7:46 pm)
per mavaalaura: beh c'è spazio per tutti, anche per eventuali marziani come te, si perché se conosci le lingue e ti leggi i tremila e duecento messaggi che ti precedono dicono tutti che musica e video sono una figata, comunque grazie per il tuo commento che nulla toglie al talento di compositore e violoncellista Giovanni the one and only Sollima. :)
mavaalaura (September 24, 2008 at 2:09 pm)
792040 visualizzazioni, spero solo per il video. Perchè la musica è una palla spaventosa, sia chiaro. Nulla da dire come violoncellista: ma da quando in qua un pezzo per di più palloso e che per essere "composto" richiede meno abilità di un qualunque remix house da discoteca diventa "grande musica" solo perchè suonato bene su un violoncello?