{"id":2137,"date":"2016-10-03T09:21:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T09:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2016-10-04T04:09:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T04:09:26","slug":"nuit-blanche-toronto-2016-director-xs-death-of-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=2137","title":{"rendered":"Nuit Blanche Toronto 2016: Director X’s DEATH OF THE SUN"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a busy weekend, it made no sense to shoot footage of several Nuit Blanche mixed media art installations, so I picked one<\/em> – Director X’s Death of the Sun<\/strong><\/a>, which was poised to debut October 1st, 2016, at Toronto’s Nathan\u00a0 Phillips Square, smack beside Toronto City Hall.<\/p>\n

I staked out a perfect spot, and after about an hour the giant globe finally switched from pre-show test graphics to darkness, and then the big reveal, after which the art project shifted through three distinct phases of the Sun’s demise: fiery red-orange, a translucent pink, and a swirling cold blue mass before the globe greyed, dimmed, and went out.<\/p>\n

Smoke effects were triggered at a few junctures, and as the three phases repeated once more, I ran around the site, grabbing as much footage as possible before bolting back home and cutting the short overnight and throughout most of Sunday. The sound editing & mixing were rudimentary, but the edits had to be clean in spite of the obvious wind blusters that occasionally peppered the sound mix.<\/p>\n

Did I go overboard? Maybe, but what started off as a fun editing project – shoot what you can, and make it work – <\/em>became a bit more detailed than expected. Either way, I’ve posted the end results on my Vimeo<\/a> + YouTube<\/a> channels.<\/p>\n

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Vimeo:<\/p>\n