Rushes bring British Sea Power to life Artist: British
Sea Power Dougal Wilson directs a striking new promo for Brighton’s favourite kings of rock, British Sea Power. With an array of stunning effects by Adrenalin @ Rushes, the promo entitled ‘Remember Me’, promises to be an award winner. The promo kicks off with a series of London’s finest views and monuments. These beautiful tourist shots keep on coming and we hardly notice that one of the bronze soldiers guarding the London cenotaph is yawning, or the immutable fingers of a Buckingham Guard stretching. After the first minute of thumping drums and banging guitars the shots start to focus on the fully animated faces of marble statues and bronze figures as they sing the lyrics of ‘Remember Me’. The statues and participants were shot on a HD cam. Early tests were shot on DV using examples of coloured make up. These were comped at Rushes and helped pinpoint potential problems other than skin colour, such as the unwanted ‘sway’. The use of a long lens on the moving camera helped eliminate troublesome perspective changes between the statues. Disguised as World War II bronzes, we see the band members performing on a plinth with the words ‘We Remember British Sea Power’, inter-cut with more singing effigies. It took a combination of strong makeup, softening and flattening techniques and various filters including a 3-tier displacement technique to fine tune the lighting position and chisel the features of each statue. Duncan Malcolm of Rushes says “The steel green grade by Martin Southworth added a beautiful finish to the piece and once the techniques were set the comping process became a joy, almost therapeutic"
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