Monday, September 16, 2013
Making of The Krewella Volcano
Vimeo: V Squared Labs in collaboration with Stefano Novelli has created "The Volcano", a custom crystalline stage production for Krewella's upcoming "GET WET LIVE" tour. From pencil sketches and creative reference to architectural reality, bringing this project to life was an exciting and invigorating process.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
8 comments:
This concert looks amazing and what makes it so cool is the infrastructure of the set. The "Volcano" is a 30'x18' structure that is composed of steel, mirrors, and LED lights. I found it somewhat ironic that the structure was called a volcano because to me it personally looked like a giant crystal structure. There were only a couple of movements in the video clip where the "volcano" erupted. The video was also title "the making of the volcano," but the video focused more on the installation and performance of the structure rather than designing and creating. Only about a forth of the video actually focused on the physical designing and constructing. Overall this element of the concert looks to be incredible and exhilarating to all viewers that get the lucky opportunity to see it in action.
holly balls....
Not that I have gotten that out of that way, this is very impressive. Very very impressive, interesting fabrication technique and I want to see more about how they integrated the LED's to create such a dynamic video structure. To respond to Keith's comment, why it is called the Volcano could be for any number of reasons including that someone called it that as a joke and stuck. One day this summer I was working until 1 in the morning elbow deep in Beyonce's PettyCoat which was actually a flat with a stitched fabric skin and LED's that dancers would dance on the back of.
This looks so cool! It was really interesting to see them fabricating the volcano with the LED panels. I am very curious to see how they will utilize all of the technical elements of the volcano. My concern is that instead of people focusing on the music of the concert they will be focusing on the technical elements. Thats not a bad thing, but in my mind these elements are here to add to the experience. Hopefully they will not steal the focus, but complement perfectly.
While not a groundbreaking design or use of technology, the structure detailed in the video is quite flashy and exciting, which I'm sure is exactly what the designers were going for. It looked as though there were some mirrors involved, which is a neat way of making things a little more exciting. From my limited knowledge of the band and the production design of the entire concert, it seems to fit quite well. It's a design well executed from concept to stage.
Not only do I really like this video because I really like the group, but what also got me interested in seeing the process of their volcano being built is the fact that it shows the process from start to finish. We see the whole design aspect of the volcano which is awesome! Seeing how they plan to build it and seeing how the geometric shapes will form together is great to see. Then having the whole production of it put together is great and having the ability to see how they formed most of it and how they attached and utilized the LEDs is amazing. And lastly, just seeing how it looked on stage really puts the whole process into perspective. It really allows us to appreciate the work put into it.
This was one of the best "News from the real world" articles ive seen yet. I love looking at new and inventive ways of adding to a performance, especially when it doesn't involve theater. I loved seeing this thing built from sketch to performance. I think im especially interested and intrigued by this because it something that i would design. I love the integration of media and lights and set and the scale of this is perfect. I just wish that maybe they could've used more of it in some way. I also am not quite sure why its called a volcano....
and also sde note- YAY GO TEXAS.
That's insane. One of the most beautiful "sets" I've ever seen.
I like how when you're designing for tour concerts you have to go all out with your sets.
I can't imagine the amount of work that went into building that thing from the design to actually programming the show on it.
I just found the use of mirrors and LED lights amazing.
Post a Comment