Coldplay - Adventure Of A Lifetime (Making Of Video)

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so my name is Matt White Cross and we're

here on the set of call playay video for

adventure of Lifetime so we're here in a

lot of people probably recognize this as

the volume which is what they use for

Avatar and this all came about because

Chris had met Andy and and they were

Keen to do something together weren't

really sure what so we just kind of

decided to book a date and we'd kind of

figure it out as we went along which is

more or less what's happened well it

goes back to actually working with Matt

White Cross who has known the band for a

long time he been very good friends with

them ever since they were all at College

together and he said you know you really

must meet Chris from C cuz cuz he is a

very you know apart from being a

brilliant musician you know he's a very

visual person very artistic person and

and I just think there might be some

Synergy somewhere uh with the

Imaginarium which is as we began to get

the Imaginarium together our performance

character studio so that was that was

that sort of was a few years ago and

then about a year ago I was flying back

from from LA and I sudden I got I was

sitting in my seat on the plane and I

got tapped on the shoulder and there was

Chris Martin sitting behind me

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so we start off the day coming into this

space now if you can see these cameras

up here and here and here there cameras

everywhere and effective they're

creating a grid system they're all

infrared they've got the guys over there

you can see one of our dancers kji is

got these markers on them which is just

um reflective material like you'd have

on the police jacket and um and so all

that is bouncing back onto the sensors

which affec tell the computer where

everyone is so everyone wears these

ridiculous looking suits and some of

them including Chris wearing the

performance capture um cameras on their

front so they can record what's what

they what they're do their FA is doing

as well so so the band started to uh

very quickly I mean I show them a few

bits and pieces and just kind of where

to Center their weight and so on but

really it was uh and then just threw in

a few ideas here and there but but Matt

was on to it and Matt and Chris was onto

it and he was just really you could just

see him really vibing off it and really

enjoying it and then the band members

started to enjoy themselves and and we

thought well let's put let's do apes all

playing their instruments for a start

get you know as a as a way in and then

and then with the dancing and and it

just sort of had its own energy and um

narrative grew out of that

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so at the end of the day we ended up

with a whole bunch of collected data

that was their performance and then the

fun started of taking all that cold

clinical data and cleaning it up and

trying to make sense of all the dots and

what they meant in terms of performance

for for monkeys and then we had to get

to the matter of Designing monkeys we

basically started from uh sort of more

realistic monkeys and um uh we liked

them but at the same time we felt like

they didn't have enough character from

the band members so we went through

different

iterations for colors each one of them

had a specific uh face shape and uh

details that's what basically we

provided to uh mathematics so the final

concept uh models the first thing that

uh has come to us was that um everything

was set together by the director like um

we got an really precise edit with a

fine intention of what they wanted to

achieve our goal was to get the modeling

from The Imaginarium and set up the

skeleton so that we could have the

character move we received some lip sync

from imagin and it was great great for

human but uh all the challenge was to

make it more animals and uh and then we

have to uh to improve all the expression

and make it more monkey I think everyone

has been really uh happy to work

together on such a great project

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