In “The Dance,” Sekizawa explores the breaking down of conventional beliefs of Japanese refinement by means of the avant-garde dance kind often called Butoh. This mission compiles sluggish movement, nonetheless images, and stop-motion to create one seamless 10-second looping movie.
Veteran industrial photographer/director Zen Sekizawa simply completed a multimedia mission that explores the position of Japanese ladies by means of the avant-garde Butoh dance. In “The Dance,” Sekizawa captured movie, images and stop-motion individually and compiled the weather into one seamless 10-second looping movie and two pictures. She relied on ARRI SkyPanels for the whole manufacturing.
“I used mild depth, mild motion, and lightweight coloration to discover the inseparable relationship between movement and time,” she explains. “I actually love the quantity of depth and saturation the SkyPanels are able to!”
Cinematographer Ernesto Lomeli and animator Musa Brooker collaborated with Sekizawa to seize slow-motion footage of breaking glass and the stop-motion of flowers flying by means of the air and withering away. “I had the luxurious of utilizing the SkyPanels to play with all of the timing sequences and coloration choices,” Sekizawa says. She additionally experimented with SkyPanel lighting results in unconventional methods for the images parts. “As an alternative of utilizing the identical set, similar lighting and similar search for all three media capturing, I attempted lighting with completely different speeds,” she says. “For instance, sluggish movement wants a variety of mild output, so I used the SkyPanels S120-C to their full potential.”
“The results are nice to work with,” she continues. “We had two quick strobes going off directly, which we used for the slow-motion sequences, for instance. There’s no method I may used another lighting fixture to seize the colour and timing. Utilizing the SkyPanels on this experimental method was enjoyable and particular.” Sekizawa and her lighting workforce had been ready to make use of an iPad and small Wi-Fi router to regulate the manufacturing’s two SkyPanel S120-Cs remotely. The mission additionally used three ARRI L7-Cs and two L5-Cs.
“The results are nice to work with,” she continues. “We had two quick strobes going off directly, which we used for the slow-motion sequences, for instance. There’s no method I may used another lighting fixture to seize the colour and timing. Utilizing the SkyPanels on this experimental method was enjoyable and particular.” Sekizawa and her lighting workforce had been ready to make use of an iPad and small Wi-Fi router to regulate the manufacturing’s two SkyPanel S120-Cs remotely. The mission additionally used three ARRI L7-Cs and two L5-Cs.
The crew constructed a set round a Butoh dancer who – by way of the composited parts – is interacting with time. “The SkyPanel options had been used to discover the idea of time by means of coloration, motion and stillness,” she says. “Different manufacturers’ steady lighting have dangerous fall-off, however that’s not the case with SkyPanels. With SkyPanels, it’s very simple to regulate coloration and depth, and the standard of the sunshine is very nice.”
“The Dance” could be discovered on Sekizawa’s web site and on Vimeo. “Many individuals are unaware of the historic contribution of Japanese ladies to Japanese tradition, and I needed to interrupt down the standard and conservative stereotypes,” she says. “I really like how SkyPanels helped me inform that story.”
The ARRI SkyPanel S120-C is totally tuneable from 2,800K to 10,000K, provides a vibrant coloration choice (RGB+W coloration gamut) and excessive coloration rendering in addition to massive aperture (1290x300mm). The fixture is good for vertical lighting and in addition provides low energy consumption (400 W Nominal), output that’s brighter than 2KW tungsten smooth mild, and totally dimmable from 0 to 100%.
