silent moments by diosmos
visually creating a character
In 2019, I began to work on « Diosmos », a project led by Gilles Marti, a very talented Bernese multi-intrumentalist who soon became a dear friend of mine.
With Jero Fähndrich, they wrote the first draft of a dystopian story that would soon lead to the visual tales of Diosmos being born. I was approached to imagine and create the character design of Diosmos. I illustrated my ideas and shared them with the team. Only one year later, Gilles Marti trusted me to direct my first music video by his sides on the beautiful project that is Diosmos and so began the preproduction of Silent Moments.
Directing the music video
We spent the whole day filming, more driven by the instantaneous search for images that caught our attention than by following through on shots we’d thought up beforehand. When we got home, Jero Fähndrich (himself a talented editor) wanted to incorporate our reference images into the animatic we’d already created. We realized that these images could be used for the clip and we regretted not having Diomos’ key accessory, his gas mask.
Finally, we decided to call on Jan Widmer (a specialist in the creation of masks and other practical special effects) to build the mask, and … we went back to filming the clip!
The project began quite simply. Gilles (Diosmos) wanted to make a video clip visually reminiscent of the world he had created with Jero. An easy-to-film visualizer in a few abandoned-looking locations and short symbolic scenes, a low-cost production that we could make between us. Aaron Markus Graff, a highly skilled DOP with a precise eye for creating emotionally charged images, joined us on the project.
We imagined a few scenes, I drew some storyboards which we turned into animatics, and then we decided to go and shoot a few reference scenes to continue the pre-production stage.
After searching Google Maps for a suitable location, the four of us drove to a typically Swiss piece of nature: jagged mountains, windy lake. Once there, we couldn’t believe our eyes, as the Google Maps images didn’t do it justice at all.
get in touch around a coffee while exchanging ideas :
