Mon Pays boards

Published: 29/04/2010Posted in: GRAPHICS

This is an act that, although well designed, directed and choreographed, didn’t get into the Vancouver Olympics Opening Ceremony. It is based on Gilles Vigneault’s song Mon Pays. The look of the motion graphics for the piece is inspired by Quebec painters Lemeiux, Barbeau, Borduas as well as NFB animators McLaren, Larkin, Leaf, Bochner etc. Here are the storyboards for the song (design frames at the same time) that were supposed to be projected on the central Field of Play.

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Black dot in the centre is the peformer, his shadow is projected Ryan Larkin's Walking watercolour cycle
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Words coalesce into ink spills ala Borduas
Ink writes lyrics and draw landscapes
Overall pastoral look and feel are from Lemeiux landscapes
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Etching like Caroline Leaf's animation or at some point wilder as McLaren's
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Maple Leaf turns into faces (Buchner's film)
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Appearance of the first spring crocuses after a long winter executed in action painting style of Barbeau
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