ZAC BROWN BAND AT SPHERE - QUIET YOUR MIND

THE VISUAL STORY

Through soft bokeh, a single dandelion sharpens into focus, its delicate seeds dancing on invisible currents. The camera pulls back, revealing countless dandelions reflected on dark, rippled water. As reflections dance across the surface, the dandelions blur and transform into glowing lanterns that begin to rise. In a wave moving toward the audience, these lights lift skyward, embodying the lyric "enjoy the ride." As the lanterns ascend into darkness, they shrink to starlight, their points of light organizing into swirling galactic structures. The camera tracks back through pulsing nebulae and cosmic formations, suggesting how quieting the mind expands our perspective from intimate earthly details to infinite universal rhythms, a journey from single seed to entire cosmos.

SONG (XX): QUIET YOUR MIND

CONCEPT: SEEDS & STARS

CREATIVE DIRECTOR/CONCEPT DEVELOPER: BEN HURAND

ART DIRECTOR / SENIOR DESIGNER / SCRIPT WRITER: JOSH CHILDERS

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: EOWYN MISHAWN

CREATIVE LEAD: HEIN HAMERS

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: GRANT JULIAN, DANNY YOUNT

PRODUCER / CO-PRODUCER: EOWYN MISHAWN, NATHAN BAYNE

ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: JENNIFER WILLCUT, MIKE TOUSEY

HEAD OF PRODUCTION: JESSE LOONEY

VFX SUPERVISOR: MATT GUZZARDO

POST SUPERVISOR: RUBEN PROENCA

POST PRODUCER: WADE HARPOOTLIAN

POST COORDINATOR: KIMBERLY AIKMAN, DANNY “FANEEBO” BARA

NUKE COMP: WADE IVY

UNREAL ARTISTS: HEIN HAMERS

3D ANIMATORS / GENERALISTS: HEIN HAMERS, PATRICK CLARKE

HOUDINI ARTIST: HEIN HAMERS

MODELING: JOEL SOLOMON BEAIRD, HEIN HAMERS

PREVIS / ANIMATION: HEIN HAMERS, PATRICK CLARKE

TECHNICAL / PIPELINE: NICK JANECKI, AKIRA THOMPSON, ANTHONY THOMAS, PEEDGE FABROA, GRAHAM HERBSTER

PRODUCTION SUPPORT: ESTHER P ROMERO, GREG ANDERSON

SCRIPT

SONG "QUIET YOUR MIND" (DUR. 3:40)

  • (0:00-0:19) SEAMLESS TRANSITION FROM THE COLORFUL WORLD OF "LOVING YOU EASY" INTO "QUIET YOUR MIND"

ACT I (0:00-1:00) COLORFUL BOKEH COMES INTO FOCUS ON AN ABSTRACT MACRO IMAGE OF A DANDELION.

  • (SETUP) (0:00-0:20) COLORFUL BOKEH GLIMMERS THROUGH TRANSITION 

  • (CLIMAX) (0:20-0:35) DELICATE DETAILS OF DANDELION HAIRS DANCE AND SHARPEN

  • (RESOLUTION) (0:35-1:00) A SINGLE DANDELION COMES INTO FOCUS. THE CAMERA SLOWLY TRACKS BACK, REVEALING MANY DANDELIONS WITH REFLECTIONS ON A DARK, RIPPLED SURFACE. 

ACT II  (1.00-2:30) REFLECTIONS DANCE ON THE SURFACE OF DARK WATERS. DANDELIONS BLUR INTO LANTERNS AND TAKE FLIGHT

  • (SETUP) (1:00-1:30) DANDELIONS BLUR INTO BOKEH. BLURRY REFLECTIONS DANCE ON THE SURFACE OF DARK WATERS. (SWAP DANDELIONS FOR LANTERNS BEHIND BLUR) 

  • (CLIMAX) (1:30-1:50) THE CAMERA SLOWLY TRACKS BACK, AND LANTERNS COME INTO FOCUS, NOW REPLACING THE DANDELION LOCATIONS STAGED TO TAKE FLIGHT

  • (RESOLUTION) (1:50-2:30) WE SEE BLURRY BOKEH, FAR IN THE DISTANCE, RISE INTO THE SKY IN A WAVE COMING TOWARD THE AUDIENCE. THE LANTERNS TAKE OFF AS THE  LYRICS  "ENJOY THE RIDE"

ACT II (2:30-3:40) LANTERNS TRANSITION INTO STARLITE AND THEN TO NEBULA

  • (SETUP) (2:30-2:51) FLOATING LANTERNS CONTINUE TO SHRINK INTO THE BLACK SKY, TURNING INTO POINTS OF LIGHT 

  • (CLIMAX) (2:51-3:08) POINTS OF LIGHT GLIMMER AND MOVE, ORGANIZING INTO ORGANIC GALACTIC STRUCTURES 

  • (RESOLUTION)  (3:08-3:40) GALACTIC STRUCTURES PULSE AS THE CAMERA TRACKS BACK THROUGH GALAXIES 

  • SEAMLESS TRANSITION FROM THE WORLD OF "QUIET YOUR MIND" INTO "INTERMISSION," RESTING BACK ON EARTH

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