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Benjamin Scheuer 'Weather The Storm' by Peter Baynton

Cat Velez - 7th Apr 2016

Film director Peter Baynton has delivered this marvellously tender music video for American songwriter and playwright Benjamin Scheuer’s song Weather the Storm, his third collaboration with the artist. 

The song is from Scheuer's highly-acclaimed theatre show The Lion, an autobiographical one-man musical that has won numerous awards including Best New Musical at London’s Off-West End Awards and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance in New York.

The video follows Dickie, a recent widower on his quest for self-reliance who has run out of toothpaste. Peter explained, “the song contains a theme and a message that is universal. Initially we thought we’d tell the story through three very different characters, but during the months of storyboarding Benjamin and I fell in love with the personality embodied in Dickie, the old fellow who is now our hero.”

The team at Trunk used TV Paint for the drawn character animation, which was the only digitally created element in the video, and After Effects for compositing. Using watercolours to produce cubist forms, the finished video - which took nine months to complete - is beautiful in both heart and design. 

Trunk’s executive producer Richard Barnett notes, ”Working with Peter and Benjamin has been a wonderful experience. All of us at Trunk are delighted with this beautiful uplifting video that superbly interplays humour with pathos.”

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  • Animation
  • Singer-songwriter
  • Elderly
  • Old Man
  • Toothpaste
  • Watercolour

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Peter Baynton
Producer
Daniel Negret
Production Company
Radish Pictures
Production Company
Executive Producer
Richard Barnett
Executive Producer
Benjamin Scheuer

Editorial

Sound
Marty O'Brien
Sound design
Barnaby Templer

Misc

2D Animation
Peter Baynton
2D Animation
Alex Potts
2D Animation
Ismael Sanz Pea
2D Animation
Teddy Hall
2D Animation
Reg Isaac
Artworking
Rachel Calinan
Artworking
Claudia Chircop
Artworking
Théo Gremillet
Artworking
Emily Knight
Artworking
Clélia Leroux
Compositor
Philip Davies
Compositor
Rok Predin
Audio Post
Fonic

Other credits

Backgrounds

Pter Baynton

Cat Velez - 7th Apr 2016

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