NIE IM CLUB
„Nie Im Club“ is a one-take video, following the artist through a night club as they run into all sorts of strange encounters along the way. It's one of my most ambitious projects to date, requiring meticulous planning and preparation to pull off.
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139 Seconds, 50 People, 5 Team Members, 2 Days on Location, 1 Take
The biggest challenge was the sheer scale of the project, on top of the already demanding concept of shooting a one-take. Organizing equipment, a location, people, and props took a lot of time and coordination. Luckily, a few friends came on board, taking over certain tasks and helping with planning the shoot.
To reduce the risk and make filming more manageable, the video isn't actually a real one-take. It has a hidden cut in the middle and is made up of two separate takes filmed individually.
BEHIND THE SCENES
To help with the planning, I created a 3D model of the entire location based on its floor plan. This allowed me to accurately plot the camera path, position people and actions, and work out a lighting concept in advance.
This step turned out to be essential. Without it, pulling off the shoot the way we did would not have been possible.
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Once we arrived on location, the plan had to be adjusted. We had one day before the shoot to figure out exactly how we were going to pull it off, planning where to install lights and place props and people so everything would go as quickly as possible on shooting day.
In the end, we turned off all the existing lights in the location and built the entire lighting setup ourselves, using 8 Astera tubes and 12 self-made lighting tubes alongside a few smaller lights and a lot of fog.
Looking back, there's a lot I would have done differently, but I'm still happy with how this project turned out.