You know it’s the year 2015 when a car is going up against a swarm of drones. Directed by GMUNK (AKA Bradley G Munkowitz of the AIRBAG collective), the video features a Holden Astra versus eight pimped-out, custom-built drones. Controlled by pilots from Melbourne’s first-person view drone racing scene, the drones make formations that create obstacles for the car to weave through and dodge, each more difficult than the last. It’s a battle between machines. “Ten years ago this would have been a crazy, fanciful idea,” says lighting designer Kit Webster.
“Shooting something as animated and live and rich and kinetic as a car and a drone racing around on a track, and capturing that from a drone’s POV I think is going to be really inspiring,” Bradley tells us. He says he approached the video like it was a dance sequence, treating the car’s movements like choreography and capturing its movements from many different angles (see also: his video that shows us the beauty in projection mapping). All the action was filmed live, using no camera trickery or computer generated imagery.
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“The biggest challenge that I saw was combining the light trail from photography-style long exposure into film. It allowed us to have these trails that really sort of turned it into an art piece,” says Travis Hogg, Pre-Vis Director. The soundtrack, composed by Rohan Rebeiro (My Disco/Kangaroo Skull), only adds to the weird sense of poetry.
Watch now to see how a car stacks up against a living, changing racetrack.
‘Car vs Drones’ is a collaboration between Holden Australia and The Creators Project.
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