The cyberpunk movie project

We created this short video with a friend to continue our visual experimentations during an urbex session. We hope you will enjoy it! :)

Pitch : What if a mobile application exists to check the radioactivity of a place, check that water or food are edible and where they come from? That is the idea we wanted to show in this fake ad. It can be very usefull after in a post-apocalyptic environment.

I went to a gothic shop in Paris, near Châtelet les Halles, to observe clothes. I talked with one of the vendors and she was very interested in the project.

She made me discovered two main songs:
- Vaski - Something special diffuses an envoutant universe, a little bit gothic, melted with dubstep sonorities, ideal to support an underground atmosphere

- Noisia - Machine Gun  proposes a very punchy music, with warfare sounds, perfect for a scene of action

In the next post he will talk about costumes because I have bought online new stuff to start experimentations!


Photo: Vaski

During my research, I found by chance this video. I love it!

Choreographies are awesome and I really like the mix beetween quick and slow movements (linked to music various tones). For example, when there is a loud bass sound, movements are slower, the render is fascinating.

Here is our first video test, created with friends! It’s an improvisation, without scenario and costumes, to begin the experimentation phase. I hope you will like it!

Two months ago, I posted an article about my quest of inspiration for the soundtrack. I found some ideas in Futurepop but now I consider opportunities offered by Dubstep.

I think this kind of underground music (more information on Wikipedia) can be particularly adapted for my project. Why ? Because it's electronic dance music, so it can refer to the future, with sounds made by computers and machines.

Moreover bass lines are particularly amazing and powerful, as you can listen in the first video at the bottom left 'Laid Blak - Red (Chasing Shadows Remix)'. This loud sound makes me think about the rumor of a huge machine.

Rythms are usually syncopated so it can create a strange atmosphere, without linearity.
I think it can be perfect to illustrate the fight between Rebels and Citizens standardized by a modern dictatorship (and their machines).
In this context, Dubstep can show the confrontation between freedom (irregular rythms) and standardization (regular rythms).

Don't hesitate to share your favorite Dubstep songs!

A dystopian story, resembling our mass-consumption society
Soft Goulag by Yves Velan is a book about a dystopian world. Neoliberalism reaches its golden (worst) age and we can follow a man living under its rules, made dumb by stupid TV shows.

Citizens are prisoners of neoliberalism. They are conditioned and normalized under ‘soft’ dictatorship. But it’s an accepted and hidden one because they are not in fact oppressed. They live in comfort and their desires are canalized by mass consuming.

In other words, they live in a maze but as there is no visible Minotaur so they don’t try to escape. It’s a metaphor about our society, encouraging us to wake up, act and achieve our dreams.

An original reading experience
It’s hard to read this book because the writing style is annoying. Style reflects the narrator’s mind structure (a person conditioned by that society), a style smoothed by TV ways of talking and treating information.

But I think it’s a good reading experience because it shakes our reading habits and has us face a world without literature.

A rare book
Last month, a friend offered me this book and I was very impatient to read it. Why ? Because I had been desperately looking for it for 3 years! It was impossible to find. I discovered its existence on the web, typing ‘dystopia’ in Wikipedia. I wanted to read it but it was no longer published. For me, it turned into a myth.

You can now perhaps find it if you write to its editors in Switzerland.

Edouard, a colleague, gave me the link of a very rich urbex website. If you like this kind of exploration I recommand you to have a look on it.

In this page you can access lots of photos and stories about various urbex session (including a visit in Paris).

I found the video on this website. It's an immersive example of an exploration, with its moments of fear, doubts and discoveries.

UNDERCITY from Andrew Wonder on Vimeo.