Joywave 'Obsession' by Laura Gorun, Cooper Roussel and Dimitri Basil
David Knight - 19th Nov 2019
Top notch early 80s-style cinematography - check. Wonderful opening title typography - check. Not actually true but utterly believable names of mid-range 80s Hollywood movies - check repeatedly, over and over again....
This is a wonderful labour of love by the production/direction team of Laura Gorun, Cooper Roussel and Dimitri Basil for Joywave, which takes a fairly familiar idea - lets face it, turning a music video into a movie title sequence is not unique - and then makes it something special by the breadth, as well as the quality of the execution.
So many movies, and they are all bang-on for their particular genre. The result is like a snapshot of work from a relatively short period by a great Hollywood titles designer like the late, great Wayne Fitzgerald.
Here is the director's cut, which differs from the official video for Joywave's Obsession in it's pure focus on the movie titles only. But the 'official' version, which features the band, and their movie star and director alter-egos, is pretty wonderful too.
And perhaps not surprisingly, this was shot entirely on film...
David Knight - 19th Nov 2019
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Production/Creative
- Director
- Laura Gorun
- Director
- Cooper Roussel
- Director
- Dimitri Basil
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Marz Miller
Grading
- Colourist
- Kaitlyn Battistelli
- Colour Producer
- Britt Carson
- Colour grade company
- ES
Other credits
1st
Bobby Pavlovsky
2nd Ac
Sergey Lobanov
Grip
Danny Roy
Color
Kaitlin Battistelli @ Ehtos Studio
Art Director
Domonique Basil / Clara Mouton
Stylist
Alexis Asquith
Line Producers
Nina Jordan, Jeremy Young
PA
Jazmine Ritz
Stunt Coordinator
Rhino Barry MichaelsCast
David Knight - 19th Nov 2019