Music Video »Wolke - Kleine Lichter«

written on Saturday, 4th October, 2008

Together with Dino Korati and Reto Gnad I created this low budget video clip for the Cologne based band Wolke.

Making the Video:

The title of the song means small lights so we came to the idea to work with video projections of the two singers on walls around the city. Starting with miniature projections we wanted to let them grow during the video until they fill entire buildings.
We shot the projection video for our location shoot in the KHM studio. The two singers Oliver and Benedikt performed in white suits in front of black, so our projection will not have borders where the projection ends.
We shot two days at night in Düsseldorf and we were equipped with a 220V generator, a video projector, a macbook to play back our videos and DV Camcorder. Several location later we had a lot of footage of our band performing across walls, pipes, etc. .
The postproduction of this videos was actually very easy because we only had to edit it. People keep asking me about the amount of work, because it looks like a lot of tracking and compositing work. It's actually all captured directly with the camcorder, except the last three shots, where the singers perform on large buildings.