Firewriting Album Art
We do like doing something a bit different and hosting a large scale art project is always of interest especially when it means working with so many different people with such a wide range of skills.
A break in a week of appalling March weather allowed the team from Glacial Art to create something amazing for their client, Warner Music; a 50m wide circle of fire with blazing lettering all captured by drone for an Album cover and the trailer video and social media posts.
A stressful week of on-site layout and preparations culminated in just a few minutes of spectacle but what a spectacle it was!
After all the prep work had been completed, the security, safety and fire lighting team all arrived on site late afternoon for a walk through of the project and a briefing on their role. As it went dark the 30 strong fire lighting team took up their respective positions around the design awaiting the call from the director who had to ensure the light levels were just right for the envisaged shots from the drone.
The ‘Go Go Go’ call went out and all the ‘fire starters’ frantically lit their designated part of the design and left the field.
Within minutes the fire stabilised and the smoke subsided leaving an even burn of two foot high bright orange flames. The artist got into position and the drones went up.
With Nines on point in the middle of the burning design, huddles gathered around the drone operators to see just how good it looked on the drone cameras. The footage was fantastic and, thankfully, just how everyone had hoped.
Everyone was off site just after 9pm with the London contingent facing the long drive home but happy that it had all gone well and the video and photos needed were, quite literally, in the bag.
The official video trailer for Nines Crop Circle 2 was released by Warner Music on 14th April and it looked great. So much work and nervous adrenaline went into this short video; Look what the weed man done…
The morning after revealed surprisingly little damage to the field and nothing that a quick mow didn’t put right. Nevertheless, it still will be the most grass Nines has ever smoked in one night!
We are all looking forward to the Crop Circle 2 album dropping. A job well done and we are so glad to have been a small part of it.
More Info:
Wikipedia – Crop Circle 2
Glacial Art
Drone Capone