ZAC BROWN BAND AT SPHERE - LET IT RAIN

THE VISUAL STORY

Rain rises from dark waters, defying gravity to form storm clouds crackling with blue lightning. A tornado emerges, its swirling walls revealing a skull within the tempest, demons we've tried to drown finally surfacing. Ascending into the hurricane's eye, rain transforms from punishment to purification. Descending through the storm's center, we find a boy surrounded by skeletal figures as lightning ignites the clouds into cleansing flame, embodying the song's truth: only by facing buried wounds can we wash away bitterness and emerge transformed.

SONG: LET IT RAIN

CONCEPT: EYE OF THE HURRICANE

CREATIVE DIRECTOR/CONCEPT: BEN HURAND

DESIGNER/WRITER: JOSH CHILDERS

SCRIPT

SONG "LET IT RAIN"

  • SEAMLESS TRANSITION FROM THE PASTEL BEACH OF "TOES" INTO A DARKENING SKY ON A SHORE IN "LET IT RAIN"

SET UP: WATER DROPS RISE TO FORM THUNDEROUS STORM CLOUDS THAT BEGIN TO SWIRL INTO LIGHTNING-FILLED TORNADOES 

  • (SETUP) WATER DROPS RISING FROM THE OCEAN TO FORM MASSIVE STORM CLOUDS

  • (CLIMAX) ELECTRIC BLUE LIGHTNING ILLUMINATES THE CHURNING MASS OF VAPOR. WHILE THE CAMERA ORBITS THIS VORTEX, RED LIGHTNING REVEALS A SKULL MATERIALIZING IN THE CLOUDS' TURBULENT FORMS

  • (RESOLUTION) AS IT BEGINS TO TWIST, A MASSIVE TORNADO FORMS AND THE LIGHTNING BEGINS TO SHIFT IN HUE FROM CYAN BLUES TO A REDISH-WARM GLOW

CLIMAX: THE HURRICANE’S EYE

  • (SETUP) RISING ABOVE THE STORM SYSTEM, WE SEE THE SPHERICAL SHAPE OF THE EARTH'S HORIZON AS CLOUDS TWIST BENEATH US, FORMING A STORM 

  • (CLIMAX) SWIRLING CLOUDS CREATE A MASSIVE HURRICANE AS THE CAMERA SLOWLY CIRCLES THE EYE OF THE STORM AS IT SLOWLY FORMS

  • (RESOLUTION) DESCENDING THROUGH THE TURBULENT CLOUDS APPROACHING THE HURRICANE'S EYE, WE DISCOVER A LONE BOY'S SILHOUETTE. LIGHTNING FLASHES REVEAL SKELETAL SILHOUETTES IN THE MIST LURKING AROUND HIM

RESOLUTION: THE FORMING OF THE MAN

  • (SETUP)  WE DISCOVER A LONE BOY'S SILHOUETTE CROUCHED. LIGHTNING FLASHES REVEAL SKELETAL SILLHOUETTES IN THE MIST LURKING AROUND HIM.

  • (CLIMAX) A LIGHTNING CHARGE HITS THE CENTER SCREEN WHERE THE BOYS CROUCHED, IGNITING THE CLOUDS IN A SWIRLING BLAZE AS THE FIGURE FLOATS INTO MIDFRAME 

  • (RESOLUTION) THE CAMERA PUSHES IN SLOWLY ON THE BOY SURROUNDED BY A TWISTING CONFLAGRATION, HOLDING ON HIS HEROIC POSE BEFORE STROBING INTO ANIMAL

SEAMLESS TRANSITION FROM THE WORLD OF "LET IT RAIN" INTO HIS CHARACTER IN "ANIMAL"

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