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The Fifth Element(1997)
Director:Luc Besson
Cinematographer:Thierry Arbogast
2nd unit DOP:Nick Tebbet
Production Designer:Dan Weil
Key grip:Joe Celeste
Camera grip:Jean Pierre Mas
Stunt coordinator:Marc Boyle
Costume Designer:Jean-Paul Gaultier
Visual Effects supervisor:Mark Stetson
Creature Effects supervisor:Nick Dudman
Miniature Effects supervisor:Niels Nielsen
Visual Effects DOP:Bill Neil
Special Effects supervisor:Neil Corbould
Pyrotechnics supervisor:Thaine Morris
Luc Besson said he started writing the screenplay when he was 16, creating the vivid fantasy universes to combat the boredom he experienced living in rural France. But it didn't reach the screen until he was 38 years old; by that time, he felt he was old enough to actually have something to say about life.
According to costume designer Jean Paul Gaultier, the enfant terrible of the fashion world who once gave Madonna conical breasts, designed the futuristic costumes for The Fifth Element—more than 1000 of them. He didn't just design them, either For crowd scenes, where there might be hundreds of extras wearing his costume designs, he'd go around making adjustments to ensure everyone looked right before the cameras rolled.
According to Gaultier, Besson had lined up Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, and Prince to play the leads in 1992, before financial problems delayed the project. (It's not clear whether any of them had officially signed on or were merely considering it.) Besson arranged for Gaultier to meet with Prince when the singer was in Paris so he could show him sketches of his designs. The meeting proved awkward (as one assumes many meetings with Prince are), and The Purple One later told Besson that he found the costumes "a bit too effeminate." It's entirely possible that the production delays would have prevented Prince from committing anyway, but it's fun to think about what Ruby Rhod would have been like in different hands. Gaultier had also unwittingly offended Prince with his description of one proposed outfit, a mesh suit with a padded, fringe-bedecked rear. Gaultier kept referring to this part of the suit as a "faux cul" ("fake ass"), but because of his thick accent, he said Prince misheard him as saying, "F-\-\- you!" Tucker has said he took inspiration from both Prince and Michael Jackson in crafting his performance as Ruby Rhod.
When filming began, the production decided to dye Milla Jovovich's hair from its natural brown color to her character's signature orange color. However, due to the fact that her hair had to be re-dyed regularly to maintain the bright color, Milla's hair quickly became too damaged and broken to withstand the dye. Eventually a wig was created to match the color and style of Leeloo's hair, and was used for the remainder of the production.
Luc Besson, an admitted comic book fan, had two famous French comic book artists in mind for this movie's visual style when he started writing the movie in high school, Jean Giraud (Moebius) and Jean-Claude Mézières. Both artists have long-standing comic book series in France. Moebius is best known for "Blueberry" and the (French) Magazine and (U.S.) movie Heavy Metal (1981). Mézières is best known for the "Valerian" series. Both series are still in production today. Moebius and Mezieres, who attended art school together but had never collaborated on a project until this movie, started renderings for this movie in the early 1990s and are responsible for the majority of the overall look of the movie, including the vehicles, spacecrafts, buildings, human characters, and aliens. However, only Giraud is credited, and even then, he wasn't even granted a premium when the movie was eventually produced.
Some of the most memorable moments from the film are views of a future New York, complete with flying cars and a mass of new and old skyscrapers. The film was one of Digital Domain’s huge miniature shows released that year – the others being Dante’s Peak and Titanic – while also heralding the fast-moving world of CGI in the movies. The New York scenes were created using a combination of CGI (for the flying cars), live action (the people), and scale models (the buildings). A crew of 80 on the production design team spent five months building dozens of city blocks at 1/24th scale.The visual effects for The Fifth Element were realized with a masterful combination of motion control miniatures, CG, digital compositing and effects simulations by Digital Domain. The flying traffic created by the visual Effects team allowed artists to create personalized license plates. Though never visible in the movie, the state slogan printed on all license plates reads "New York, The F***-You State."The people populating the roofs, decks, and windows during the visual effects sequences in New York City are the artists and employees at Digital Domain.
The text scrolling across a Times Square theater marquee as Korben dives down through traffic is actually an excerpt from an e-mail dispute between several artists at Digital Domain. Other signs on digital and practical, miniature buildings contain similar in-jokes and references and the large cylindrical tanker truck that Korben's cab almost hits at the end of his descent is decorated with the logo of a Venice, California, pizza parlor that was a favorite of Digital Domain artists.
‘You know, Mark, I don’t want to do these ‘fancy panning around and seeing the whole world shots’. I’d much rather set a camera looking down a street, having a cab rush towards me, and cut as it passes by, and then cut to a reverse of it passing by, and construct my film that way.’ – The Fifth Element visual effects supervisor Mark Stetson relates what director Luc Besson said to him about staging the film’s New York City shots.
This was Mark Stetson’s first visual effects supervisor role, this is what he had to say about it in a VFX blog article
Mark Stetson: I wasn’t afraid of the size of it. I didn’t think it was huge at the time. I mean, it was sort of standard tent pole-ish at the time and I was confident that I could do that, but it was my first one and there was a ton I had to learn, especially about digital visual effects. And I was very supported by Digital Domain. It was Digital Domain 1.0 back then, and they really gave me a great team. It was a great experience all around.
During the prep period, cinematographer Thierry Arbogast worked extensively with production designer Dan Weil to integrate various lighting units — primarily fluorescent and occasionally ultraviolet fixtures — within the sets themselves. More often than not, the futuristic spaces dictated the types of fixtures that could be used.
Arbogast had some challenges on the film he said this about the opera scene.
“Most of the lights you see in the opera house were already there. The difficulty was in lighting the people in the audience without illuminating the white facades of the balcony. Therefore, we used a lot of flags to focus our lighting precisely on the people.”
Gary Oldman played Zorg as a cross between then-Presidential candidate Ross Perot and Bugs Bunny.
In most shots of Gary Oldman, there is a circle around his head. In fact, a circle in the middle of the frame is a nearly constant motif in this movie. Bruce Willis, on the other hand, is more often framed by a rectangle or doorway behind him.
In keeping with the hands-on approach Besson established on Le Dernier Combat and has practiced on all of his successive films — Subway (1985), The Big Blue (1988), Atlantis (1990), La Femme Nikita (1991) and The Professional (1994) — the filmmaker operated the camera himself throughout the entire shoot. While such a working situation is rare for directors working within the Hollywood system, Besson prefers it because he can maintain better control of the onscreen action. "I create the frame and the movement within it," he explains. "Why lose time explaining everything to someone else? He's going to be slightly off, and then I'm going to freak out and say, 'No, this is not what we discussed. I want the camera here!' So it's better for everyone involved if I just do it myself.
"I write each action scene as if it is a ballet; the movements fit with the music. Generally, I'll shoot a fight sequence for 10 days using just one or two cameras and a very small crew. I've already written out the fight scene in my head, shot by shot. I do this for each and every sequence so that we can just shoot it, and then put the scene together in the editing room. At the same time, when you're on the set, you can have an idea at the last moment; you realize that from a different angle the light might be better, so you change the perspective [of the shot]. But I'll always write down and block out this [new] progression."
The explosion in the Fhloston main hall was the largest indoor explosion ever filmed. The resulting fire almost went beyond control. It took twenty-five minutes to put out.
At the time, it was the most expensive movie ever produced outside of Hollywood, most expensive French production history, and at $80 million USD, the visual effects budget of the movie was the highest of its time.
The wonder on Bruce Willis' face when the Diva sings is real. That was the first time he'd heard it and seen the actress in full make-up.
Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker and Gary Oldman are all left-handed.
The director had been married to Maïwenn Le Besco, who plays the Diva Plavalaguna, since 1992 (when she was 16 and he was 33, but that's another story). She didn't want to be in the film, adhering to the old adage that married people shouldn't work together and co-workers shouldn't marry each other. But when the actress Besson had cast as the Diva dropped out, Le Besco took the part got painted blue and gave a memorable performance. Alas, Besson didn't share his wife's policy of not mixing work with relationships. He left her during the production for Milla Jovovich, whom he married at the end of 1997 and divorced two years later... then that happened
From Mental floss,vfx blog,ASCmag article,IMDb,YouTube visual element doc.
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令人羨慕的音樂眷侶!
這是Stacey Kent夫婿的豐富介紹,期待今晚的響宴!!:)
小時候,台北愛樂電台說:為何買CD只憑短短幾句側標說明?,就想說買音樂會票不也只是看看漂亮的海報,能夠多做些什麼呢?甘丹藝術將為大家逐一介紹本次Stacey Kent音樂會的團員,包含了她親愛的薩克斯風手老公與節奏組成員,敬請期待!〈歡迎轉載〉
尾發
薩克斯風-Jim Tomlinson
Jim Tomlinson比起他做為Stacey另一半的身份外,他更為人所折服的是從他薩克斯風所流露出獨樹一格的旋律。他的首張專輯"Only Trust Your Heart"毫無疑問的獲得世界樂壇的一致賀采。隨後的專輯"Brazilian Sketches"被英國的Observer newspaper譽為Jazz CD of the week,也在巴西獲得熱烈迴響。而第三張專輯"The Lyric"則獲得2006年BBC爵士大賞的年度最佳專輯。
Jim Tomlinson當時將演奏薩克斯風以及經營樂團當做他在牛津攻讀政治、哲學、經濟學位時的業餘嗜好。直到他牛津大學畢業後才發現自己被倫敦的Jazz Scene所深深吸引,而在1990年報讀Guildhall School Of Music。他與Stacey愛情以及音樂的火花則是在Guildhall校園中所逬發的。
自次以後,Tomlinson開始與許多不同的樂團搭配,從Bryan Ferry到實驗性的Big band作曲家Michael Garrick,還有Stacey。他們最近也與傳奇的巴西作曲家、鋼琴家與歌手Marcos Valle合作,另外還有Ébène四重奏這個法國跨界古典以及爵士、搖滾與世界音樂而知名的團體。Jim他自己的四重奏則是歐陸各大音樂慶典與庶民舞台的常客。與Stacey兩人最近則專注於寫曲、製作與編曲的三棲生活。
2007年Jim擔任製作了Stacey的白金暢銷專輯”Breakfast On The Morning Tram”,該專輯獲得葛萊美Blue Note專輯獎提名,其中四首歌是Jim和知名作曲Kazuo Ishiguro寫的,其中的金曲Ice Hotel則拿下2007年國際作曲大賞爵士類的第一名,而另外一首So Romantic則是拿下2008年的獎項。他理所當然的也持續的在Stacey近年的專輯中演奏、擔任製作以及作曲。這些專輯有Raconte-Moi (Blue Note 2010), Dreamer In Concert (Blue Note 2011) 以及巴西風格的The Changing Lights (Parlophone/Warner 2013).
當兩夫妻放下音樂走入生活,Jim和Stacey大多待在他們科羅拉多的家,一個可以將音樂工作室與滑雪區隔開的地方。他們也花了三周的時間在Vermont的Middlebury大學學習葡萄牙語
最近一次的世界巡迴則是在超過30個國家和無以計數的音樂會、音樂節慶以及媒體中曝光。
As a kid, E-Classical Radio told: Why bought a CD for only its description on belly-band? So…what else makes us to buy a concert tickets except for fancy posters?
Here Simple-Arts would like to represent you every single member detailed introduction of Stacey Kent band including surely her beloved husband/Saxophonist and percussionists. Please Watch this!
Part Four
Saxophone-Jim Tomlinson
Perhaps best known for his work as the compelling counter-voice to singer and wife, Stacey Kent, Jim Tomlinson is increasingly recognised as a distinctive saxophone voice in his own right. The release of his debut album as leader, Only Trust Your Heart, was greeted with universal acclaim. His follow up CD, Brazilian Sketches, was named 'Jazz CD Of The Week' by the Observer newspaper in the UK as well as being very well received in Brazil and his third album as leader, The Lyric, won 'Album of the Year' at the 2006 BBC Jazz Awards.
Jim Tomlinson played the saxophone and ran a band as a hobby whilst studying for his degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at University College, Oxford. It was only after graduating and finding himself drawn to London’s jazz scene that he enrolled at the Guildhall School Of Music in 1990. It was at the Guildhall that his musical and romantic relationship with Stacey blossomed.
Since then, Tomlinson has worked in a wide variety of groups, from Bryan Ferry to the experimental big band composer, Michael Garrick and together with Stacey, they have recently recorded with legendary Brazilian composer, pianist and singer, Marcos Valle, as well as with the Quatuor Ébène, the French string quartet renowned equally for their award-winning recordings of the classical repertoire and their innovative performances of jazz, rock and world music. His own quartet has appeared at clubs and festivals across Europe. More recently, he has toured almost exclusively with Stacey, focussing increasingly on his songwriting, producing and arranging.
In 2007, Jim produced Stacey’s platinum selling, Grammy-nominated Blue Note album, Breakfast On The Morning Tram, for which he also wrote four new songs with the acclaimed author, Kazuo Ishiguro. Their song, The Ice Hotel, won first prize in the jazz category of the 2007 International Songwriting Competition and So Romantic was a finalist in the 2008 competition. He has also performed on, produced and written for Stacey's recent albums, Raconte-Moi (Blue Note 2010), Dreamer In Concert (Blue Note 2011) and the Brazilian-themed, The Changing Lights (Parlophone/Warner 2013).
When not performing, Jim and Stacey spend their time at their home in Colorado where they are able to divide their time between their music studio and the ski slopes of Aspen. They have also spent the last three summers studying portuguese at Middlebury college in Vermont, USA.
Their recent tours have taken them to more than
30 countries with numerous concert, festival and media appearances.
school description in french 在 Vickeblanka Youtube 的最讚貼文
【English Description below↓】
ビッケブランカ / 4thシングル「ミラージュ」
Listen Now▶ https://vickeblanka.lnk.to/Mirage
Twitter▶︎ https://twitter.com/VickeBlanka
Lyric▶︎ https://www.uta-net.com/song/287917/
4th Album「FATE」2021年9月1日(水) Release!
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ミラージュ official music video
Director:中澤太
Producer:小林雄介(CROMANYON )
- タイアップ -
M1.ミラージュ
カンテレ・フジテレビ系ドラマ「竜の道 二つの顔の復讐者」オープニング曲
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「竜の道 二つの顔の復讐者」
放送:2020年7月28日(火)スタート
毎週火曜夜9時(カンテレ・フジテレビ系全国ネット)
原作:白川道『竜の道』(幻冬舎文庫)
出演:玉木 宏 高橋一生 松本穂香 細田善彦 奈緒 今野浩喜 渡辺邦斗・西郷輝彦(特別出演)・松本まりか 斉藤由貴 遠藤憲一 他
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M2.Shekebon!
ドラマ特区「ピーナッツバターサンドウィッチ」オープニング主題歌
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Music Video:https://youtu.be/2tYM6qoD580
オープニング映像:https://youtu.be/JYi869YZFvc
★Release Info.
「ミラージュ」
発売日:2020年8月19日(水)
先行配信日:2020年7月28日(火)
品番:AVCD-94851
価格:¥1,200 (tax out)
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- 収録内容 -
M1.ミラージュ
M2.Shekebon!
M3.ウララ(Special Live for Releasing “Devil” at Landmark Studio 2020.03.07)
M4.ミラージュ -Instrumental-
M5.Shekebon! -Instrumental-
★Official Info.
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【English】
Vickeblanka / 4th Single「Mirage」
Listen Now▶ https://vickeblanka.lnk.to/Mirage
Twitter▶︎ https://twitter.com/VickeBlanka
Lyric▶︎ https://www.uta-net.com/song/287917/
★Biography
Vickeblanka is a versatile songwriter/composer.
His songs are best characterized by his individuality, good melody’s and his beautiful falsetto voice.
He started composing music when he was only in elementary school.
With the aim to pursue music as a career, he decided to attend university in Tokyo.
In 2016, he was finally able to debut. Since his debut, his performances have impressed the audience, making.
★Release Info.
「Mirage」
Release Date:2020.8.19(Wed)
Price:¥1,200 (tax out)
Buy:https://VickeBlanka.lnk.to/Mirage_CD
- Recorded Music -
M1.ミラージュ
M2.Shekebon!
M3.ウララ(Special Live for Releasing “Devil” at Landmark Studio 2020.03.07)
M4.ミラージュ -Instrumental-
M5.Shekebon! -Instrumental-
★Official Info.
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