Stories of online collaboration.
Elastic Semantic was asked to create short films documenting how orchestral musicians came together over Christmas using Zoom; creating new musical works inspired by a new genre or compositional method.
We focused on four workshops that used folk music, jazz, loop-based composition and a collaboration with National Youth Dance Company. Each workshop was curated by an expert tutor and lasted three days, culminating in a sharing session for their newly composed work. Our brief was to showcase the musicians’ creativity, resilience and enthusiasm against the backdrop of the oppressive pandemic.
Footage of the Zoom workshops was complemented by self-filmed, remotely-directed interviews with key participants, and snippets from the final performances.
Using NYO brand values, typography and carefully selected footage, we created informative, funny and emotional mini-documentaries, detailing the young musicians’ creative journeys.
Over 160 hours of Zoom footage were scoured to create a ‘paper edit’ for each story, before the video editing began – to distill three days of work for each group into a six minute film.
Watch the films here
Michael Orwell 