Near Light Video Animation and Dance

Press Kit

Unique Properties

Through capturing imagery of floating lights on streets after midnight when the busy city was calming down, this video animation aspires to evoke a nostalgic sensibility for Macao, a tranquil peninsula in southern China near Hong Kong. As a reflection and questioning to the prosperous economic development in a city well-known for gambling industry, this work provokes the audiences into the search of the meaning of life.

Dimensions & Packaging

This work could be a video for a show/screening only or could include dance in a multimedia performance with LED panel on stage or within a museum/gallery installation.

Tags

art video, music video, video animation, multimedia show, synthesis of video animation and dance

Production Technology

Video footages filmed with a Canon 5DSR and edited in Adobe Premiere for the animation. This work could also include dancers in a multimedia performance.

Design Challenge

Capturing the floating lights on street and matching images/animation with music to creative the desired mood. The incorporation of dancers in the production is also a big challenge.

Project Duration

04:35, Lightscape: A Synthesis of Video Animation and Dance,
University of Macau, Macao, 2018

Operation Flow

This work could be a video for a show/screening only or could include dance in a multimedia performance with a large LED panel on stage or within a museum/gallery installation.

Research

This work is a multimedia video animation for screening and show, but it could also be part of a multimedia dance performance with a large LED panel on stage or within a gallery/museum installation. Through manipulation of the manual focus function during filming, a dreamy effect is captured to reveal a nostalgic sensation. The video footages will then be edited to match the musical texture. In the performance, dancers added another layer of meaning to the video animation and together created a touching performance on stage.

Inspiration

The inspiration of the project came from experiencing the transformation of Macao from a peaceful peninsula to a metropolitan city. As Reinsley Husson wrote in a review of Near Light: "Every life is heading towards an unknown destination - a journey of tragedies and triumphs that ultimately allows us to discover the world, and more importantly, ourselves."

Image Credits

Image #1: Artistic Director Lampo Leong, Photographer Hengchia Hsu, 2018
Image #2: Artistic Director Lampo Leong, Photographer Tiantian Huan, 2018
Image #3: Artistic Director Lampo Leong, Photographer Tiantian Huan, 2018
Image #4: Artistic Director / Photographer Lampo Leong, 2018
Image #5: Artistic Director / Photographer Lampo Leong, 2018

Patents

Lampo Leong, 2018

Colors of Near Light Video Animation and Dance