DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY BISON
COMMISSIONED BY JAMES STEVENSON BRETTON AT BLINKINK

BISON: “We’d been look­ing into an old 3D tech­nique called “Anaglyph”, which is the famil­iar red and cyan ver­sion of 3d that you used to get on the back of cereal boxes. The more we looked at var­i­ous images that used this tech­nique, the more we fell in love with the colours and decided that they should drive the aes­thetic of the piece. In par­tic­u­lar, we were intrigued as to what might hap­pen if the two images were from dras­ti­cally dif­fer­ent sources.

“The song is full of light and shade; with euphoric melodies and skip­ping glitchy beats. It seemed to us that themes of ‘dual­ity’ ran through both the song and our visual idea.

“We took those themes to our styl­ist, Jus­tine Josephs who, along with our make-up artist Sally Mar­shall, cre­ated two oppos­ing looks for our dancer, Claire Mee­han. We spent a sin­gle day shoot­ing in a South East Lon­don stu­dio with Chris Nunn behind the cam­era and lights.

“Finally came the edit and post-production process: We locked our­selves in the stu­dio for 2 weeks work­ing with After Effects.
The process was pretty organic; we spent a week or so play­ing with the footage, devel­op­ing dif­fer­ent ideas and tech­niques, and then spent a fur­ther week mould­ing the dis­parate pieces into a solid video that ebbed and flowed in the right places.”

Cin­e­matog­ra­phy – Chris Nunn
Styl­ist – Jus­tine Josephs
Make-up – Sally Mar­shall
Dancer – Claire Mee­han
Run­ner – Jake Hopewell