MUSIC BY
The Chemical Brothers
VOCALS BY
Beck
DANCER
Sonoya Mizuno
CHOREOGRAPHY BY
Wayne McGregor
VISUAL EFFECTS BY
The Mill
PRODUCED BY
John Madsen
DIRECTED BY
DOM&NIC
COMMISSIONER
Ailsa Robertson
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Steve Chivers
STEADICAM OPERATOR
Rick Woollard
EDITOR Ed
Cheeseman
SOUND DESIGN
Tony Rapaccioli
COSTUME DESIGNER
Tara Stift
HAIR AND MAKE-UP
Fiona Fellows
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Steve Elgar
FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Ben Gill
FOR RANDOM DANCE
Rebecca Marshal & Ellie Douglas-Allan
FOCCUS PULLER
Ross Naylor
CLAPPER LOADER
Stephanie Kennedy
DIT
Paul Swann
VIDEO PLAYBACK
Tony Booth
GRIP TRAINEE
Warren Wiseman
RUNNERS
Daniel Osei, Ana Freire De Andrade, Billy Goffey
THE MILL
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Misha Stanford – Harris
EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Neil Davies
2D LEAD
Fergal Hendrick
3D LEAD
David Fleet & Suraj ‘Sid’ Harrington–Odedra
ANIMATION LEAD
Jorge Montiel & Ian Potsos
RIGGING
Andreas Graichen
2D ARTISTS
Joe Courtis, Brad Wood, Sole Martin, Lucas Carracedo, Jeanette Eiternes, George Cressey, Warren Gebhardt, Stefan Susemihl, Rebecca Clay,
ANIMATION
Ashley Reemul, Matthew Kavanagh, Sauce Vilas, Jasmine Ghoreishi, Alberto Lara, Sherin Mahboob, Philippe Moine
3D TRACKING & MATCH MOVE (PEANUT FX)
Peregrine McCafferty and Amélie Guyot
MODELLING AND TEXTURES
Marta Carbonell
LIGHTING & RENDERING ASSIST
Yoann Gouraud
SHOOT ASSIST
Margaux Huneau
COLOURIST
David Ludlam
COLOUR ASSIST
Oisin O’Driscoll, Brendan Buckingham
ASSISTANT PRODUCER
Tess Miles
https://waynemcgregor.com/productions/wide-open
WINNER
Best Dance Video
Best VFX
UK Music Video Awards, 2016
Directed by D O M & N I C, The Chemical Brothers 2016 music video for Wide Open features choreography by Wayne McGregor.
Starring actress and dancer Sonoya Mizuno, the video was rehearsed and shot in a former cab workshop in Bethnal Green, London. Using animation, lidar scanning, and bespoke in-house software, the video plays out in one continuous shot showing Mizuno slowing transforming limb by limb as she moves around the expansive space.
The visual effects of the video were created by award winning VFX and Creative Content studio The Mill. Watch the video below to discover more about the creation process behind Wide Open, from initial concept art to the final film.