'Burning Daylight' is the Dutch entry for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest by artists Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper and required a central physical set piece with doors to ‘connect’ the multiple virtual scenes that the artists walk in and out of. Crossing borders between day and night and show locations that could never be close to each other in real life in single shots, was one of the main challenges. A unique collaboration that showcases how Virtual Production/ICVFX can help creative ideas materialise and solve productional challenges at the same time. ReadySet Studios thanks Bruut Amsterdam who worked closely with Florian Legters, Planet X and countless other talented professionals to bring the vision of director Gregory Samson come to live. The whole production was wrapped in a few weeks, including physical and visual set builds, shooting the music video and finalizing the post-production.
Director: Gregory Samson
Producer: Bruut Amsterdam, Martijn van de Vrie
DOP: Zeeger Verschuren
Produced by Bruut Amsterdam, Executive Producer: Deniz Alkaç
Art Department: Uncrowned King BV
Production Designer: Florian Legters
Virtual Production Studio: ReadySet Studios
Head of Virtual Production: Nils Pauwels, Virtual Production Technician: Daan Geurts
Virtual Production content by: Planet X
Virtual Production Supervisor: Robert Okker, Virtual Production Producer: Gijs de Groot, Lead Unreal Artist: Philippe Trijnes, Unreal Artists: Jarno Blankesteijn, Jiraphat Wonganan, René van Zon
Edit: Joshua Menco
Colorist: Bart Voorsluis
VFX: Notion
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