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Into the Storm

Official Music Video for Ocean Jet's song “Into the Storm”
Reveals the psychological theme of the 5 stages of the adoption of the inevitable

  • Alisa Agafonova
    Key Cast
  • Bombastichansa Parissa Pery (Smart Wood Hills Boromir х Bombastichansa Yarby Yara) 1.9 years
    Key Cast
  • Bombastichansa Usher Uilsher (Barbados vom Westwall х Bombastichansa Bella Berenice) 1.4 years
    Key Cast
  • Ocean Jet band
    Key Cast
  • Natalia Maslova
    Director
    Melancholic Park / Moby - "the Day"
  • Kai Waker
    Director
    Melancholic Park / Moby - "the Day"
  • Natalia Maslova
    Writer
    Melancholic Park / Moby - "the Day"
  • Ocean Jet band
    Writer
  • Maxim Orehovsky
    Director of Photography
    Melancholic Park / Moby - "the Day"
  • Kai Waker
    Director of Photography
    Melancholic Park / Moby - "the Day"
  • Natalia Maslova
    Director of Photography
    Melancholic Park / Moby - "the Day"
  • Natalya Romanova
    MUA
  • Kai Waker
    Director of Edit
    Melancholic Park / Moby - "the Day"
  • Ocean Jet band
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Music Video
  • Genres:
    Independent, Surreal, Music, Mystery, Short, Experimental, Psychological
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 39 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 22, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    100 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Russian Federation
  • Country of Filming:
    Russian Federation
  • Shooting Format:
    Full HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    Scope 2.39
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Natalia Maslova, Kai Waker

Kai Waker is a stage name, but the real (born) name is Anatoly Nechaev. He was born in Khabarovsk (the Russian Far East) in 1988. Having lived there till 1997 Nechaev’s family moved to southern Russia – city of Sochi.
From his childhood Anatoly takes part of different creative activities: puppet theatre (5-6 ages), fine art school (6-12 ages), stage plays (school, university), modern art exhibition performances (adult age).
In 2007 Anatoly graduated from the Sochi Branch of Peoples Friendship University of Russia with the computer programming degree.
Since 2006 he starts works as director of edit and composer (video films, clips, video arts, ads, etc.).
From 2009 Anatoly works with the art of photography, filming.
In present time he is one of the leaders of local cinema society.

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Director Statement

The script was based on the lyrics of the song with a deliberate refusal of classical drama and the adaptation of a rich visual effects. The main meaning of the proposed plot is the ability to show all five stages of the adoption of the inevitable in a special stylistic form. For this, in the process of preproduction and filming, there was created an image of a renounced and emotionally dependent heroine, who lives in the surreal world of her own experiences and fears.

The philosophy of editing in this project was to support the general idea of showing the psychological component, for which the sub-type of intelligent editing was chosen - analytical - it is the reception of a sequential display of frames containing details or elements of a scene or event in such a way that the viewers have the impression that they saw this scene entirely, a general picture of what was happening.

The whole picture, based on music, was divided into 5 parts, corresponding to the 5 stages of the adoption of the inevitable in psychology:
Denial - the girl wakes up in scarry and does not understand what is happening, and looks at the viewer with mistrust.
Anger - is a hidden emotional component, a dumb cry of the soul, a menacing Cerberus in the frame and an explosion at the end of the episode.
Bargaining - the heroine goes to the deal, without stopping for a second in the frame.
Depression – she is outsider to other people, the ghosts of the past, she just has ability to hold on something (the book of her life) that she loses at the end of the episode.
Acceptance - is the formation of rigidity and strength in the heroine's eyes, a smile in response to all worldly problems.

It was a difficult task to demonstrate all this in a tight time frame of a three-minute song. To say something to the viewer in such a short form, we need non-trivial approaches. That's why the best form for this is clip-editing, which is distinguished by the "tingedness of presentation", which is determined by the uncomfortable "clip-on" editing, i.e. editing, made in violation of the ten rules of comfortable connection frames. "Swallowing" individual phases of continuous movement, leaving off-frame the logic of changing the tempo-rhythm and the center of the composition, the clip-fitting assembles "cutting" the most significant, spectacular poses and gestures of characters, excluding logical transitions not only from one action to another, but also realizing instantaneous "Flights" from one reality (place of action) to another.
All this is the aesthetics of the intriguing and exciting "Cathexis", fully applied in this work.