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BOO - Lady Megawatt Music Video
Music video direction and animation for the band Battery Operated Orchestra.Recipient of Green Screen Film Fest award: Best Music Video (2021).The band wanted this music video to be set inside a power station, not just any power station but London’s iconic Grade II* listed Battersea power station. At the time the site was under construction and inaccessible so I leveraged the 2.5D animation technique to add depth and movement to photos of the location. The end result is a music video which appears to have been shot in Battersea power station.
2.5D typically involves creating layers from a photo and arranging them in 3D space with a virtual camera to create the illusion of depth, much like a traditional diorama.
Another 2.5D technique uses a black and white ‘depth map’ to indicate how near or far away different parts of the image are.
Many thanks to the photographers Darmon Richter and Andy Kay, without whom this video would not have been possible. Other photos used under Creative Commons license: Paul Brocklehurst, Przemasban and Vattenfall. Archive video footage from Master Hands, Jam Handy (1936)