For Dead & Company's second Vegas Sphere residency, I created this sequence to celebrate sixty years of the Grateful Dead, building a fluid, ever changing archive incorporating the tape covers from hundreds of bootleg recordings over the years. A continuous 5 minute camera move takes the crowd into the molecular structure of the bands 'Steely' logo, revealing the vast array of tapes forming the structure, in chronological order. Several other initial tests also displayed above.
Dead & Company - Sphere, Las Vegas
Studio: Treatment
Creative Directors: John Mayer, Sam Pattinson
Technical & Camera Director: Brandon Kraemer
Design Directors: Damian Hale, Tim Booth, Sam Munnings
Head of Production: Lizzie Pocock
Producer: Julia Goldberg
Executive Producer: Sam Pattinson
Design & Animation: James Rushton, Rosalvo Melo, Charlie Broome, Nick Lyons, Tiago Higgs, Simon Russell, Andy Evans, Dave Shepherd,
Susana Yamamoto, Gareth Blayney, Warren Chapman, Hayden Bannochie, Yoonkyeong Yang
Notch Design: Brett Bolton
Creative Technologists: Dylan Steenkamp, Zed Wall, Andrew Brod (Fuse), Jackson Cobb (Fuse)
Disguise Programmers: Danny Purdue, Andreanne Lafrance, Sean Green
Shoot Producers: Meg Pautke (Wise Productions), Matt Cummins
Creative Consultants: Mark Mawson, Roderic Wilson
Research & Archive Consultants: David Lemieux, Jay Blakesberg, Amir Bar-Lev, Matthew Sanger
Licensing: Tim Scanlin (Clear Rights)
Sound Design: The Elements
Associate Producer: Tilly Reith
Legal: Will Everitt for Lee & Thompson
Technical Partners: BOXX, Fuse, WEKA, Disguise and LucidLink
Photos provided by: Treatment, Rich Fury and Alive Coverage