DJ Snake 'Magenta Riddim' by Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia
David Knight - 13th Apr 2018
In their first video since the brilliant video for Coldplay's Up & Up, Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia get to grips with a rollicking tale about a heroic Indian fire brigade chief and his brave crew for DJ Snake's Magenta Riddim.
This is a musical comedy epic, told on the scale of a Bollywood blockbuster with the additional distinctive qualities, and brilliant visual touches, of Heymann and Muggia's VFX-enhanced action. Filmed in a small Telangana town in southern India, DJ Snake joins forces with the local firefighters who can't stop dancing and as they ride around town, putting out the unusual number of fires in and around the town - until they take their neon-lined fire truckontheir biggest challenge yet.
Many of the actors and video crew for the Magenta Riddim clip are local artists who are a part of Tollywood, which is the name for India's Telugu-speaking film industry. Two of them, Dayanand Mamilla as the chief, and B.Anki Reddy as an observant fire fighter, are at the heart of the story's surprising twist in the tale.
So the video ends on a downbeat, even disillusioned note, and DJ Snake, Heymann and Muggia's message is perhaps in keeping with the times. Our heroes and leaders are rarely as saintly as they appear.
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Credits
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Production/Creative
- Director
- Vania Heymann
- Director
- Gal Muggia
- Producer
- Natan Schottenfels
- Production Company
- I
- Executive Producer
- Natan Schottenfels
- Executive Producer
- Francesco Colombo
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Arnau Valls Colomer
Editorial
- Editor
- Gal Muggia
- Editor
- Vania Heymann
Grading
- Colourist
- Tal Baltuch
VFX
- VFX
- Tal Baltuch
- VFX
- Vania Heymann
Misc
- Titles
- Tal Baltuch
- 3D Artist
- Ori Lotan
Other credits
FX Simulations
Phenomena Labs
Additional VFX
Cinnamon VFX
Sound Design
Shlomi Attias
DJ Snake Stylist
Sasha Nasser
News Theme Music
Assa Raviv
Production Supervisor
Stephen Predisik
Storyboard Artist
Yoav Shtibelman
Treatment Layout & Design
Charlie Reader
Production Service India
Ransom Films
Producers
Salil Khurana and Suhana Sharma
Line Producer
Sachin Singh
Associate Producer
Unnati Agarwal
Production Designer
Twisha Pal
1st Ad
Siddartha Luther
2nd Ad
Gayle Almeida
3rd Ad
Vasu
2nd unit Ad
Hemanth Sivalenka
Costume Designer
Neeraja Kona
Action Director
Vijay Alam
Casting Director
Dileep Basava
Make up
K Ramana babu
Production Manager
Nadeem Shaikh
Production Assistant
Saurabh Yadav
Hyderabad Production
Rama Krishna Chaudhary
Hyd. Production Asst
R Suresh
Focus Pullers
Ananth Kathe & Sanjay Kesari
Gaffer
Hitesh Sadrani
Key Grip
Raj
Pyro tech
K Prakash
Art Asst
Sagar Agarwal
Commander
Dayanand Mamilla
Woke Fire Fighter
B.Anki Reddy
Driver
Appala Raju
Fire fighter
Mekana Lingaiah
Fire fighter
Ramu.K
Fire fighter
Chandra Shekhar Gaud
Driver of Blue Car
Chiranjeevi. Hanumanda
Pyro Boy
Harsh Roshan SK
Mayor
Rama Devi
Dancer
Venkateshwarulu.P
Dancer
Raghu Ram Kodi
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