Chords for Coldplay - Adventure Of A Lifetime (Making Of Video)

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[Dm] _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ So my [A] name is Matt Whitecross and we're here [C] on the set of Coldplay video [G] for Adventure
of a [Am] Lifetime.
[F] So we're here in, [G] a lot of people probably recognise this [C] as the volume, which is what
they use for Avatar.
And this all came [Bm] about because Chris had met [C] Andy and they were keen to do something
together but weren't really sure what.
So we just kind of decided to book a date and we'd kind of figure it out [Dm] as we went
along, which is more or less what's happened.
[C] Well it goes [G] back to actually working [Am] with Matt Whitecross, who has known the band for
a long [G] time, has been very good friends with [Dm] them ever since they were all at college together.
[C] And he said, you know, you [G] really must meet Chris from [Am] Coldplay because he is a very,
you know, apart from being a brilliant musician, he's a very visual person, a very artistic
person and I just think there might be some synergy somewhere with the [C] Imaginarium, which
is [Dm] as we began to get the [C] Imaginarium together, our [G] performance character studio.
[Am] So that was, that sort of was a few years ago and then [G] about a [D] year ago I was flying
back from [Am] LA [G] and I suddenly got, I was sitting in my seat [Am] on the plane and I got tapped on
the shoulder and there was Chris Martin [G] sitting behind me. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Em] _ [D] So [C] we start off the day coming into this space and you can see these cameras up here and down here.
There's cameras everywhere and effectively they're creating a grid system.
They're all [D] infrared, they've got, the [C] guys over there you can see, one of our dancers,
Kenji, has got all these markers on him which are just reflective [E] material like you'd have
on a police jacket.
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so all [G] that is [Am] bouncing back onto these sensors [G] which effectively tell the computer
where everyone [D] is.
So everyone wears these ridiculous looking [G] suits and some of them, including Chris, are
wearing the performance capture [A] cameras on their front so they can record what [Dm] their
face is [Am] doing as well.
So [G] the band started to, [Am] very quickly, I mean I showed them a few bits and pieces and just
kind of worked the centre of their [Dm] weight and so on but really it [Am] was, and then just
threw in a few ideas here and there, but Matt was onto it and Matt and Chris was onto it
and he was [C] just really, you could just see [Dm] him really vibing off it [Am] and really enjoying it.
And [G] then the band members started to enjoy [Am] themselves and we thought well, let's put,
let's [G] do [Dm] apes all playing their instruments for a [C] start and get, you [G] know, as a way in
and [Am] with the dancing and it just sort of [C] had its own energy and [D] narrative grew out of [Am] that. _
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_ [E] _ [D] So at the end [C] of the day we [G] ended up with a whole [Am] bunch of collected data that was their
performance and then the fun started of [D] taking all that cold [Am] clinical data [G] and cleaning it
up and [Am] trying to make sense of all the dots and [C] what they meant in [D] terms of performance for [C] monkeys.
And [G] then we had to get to the [Am] matter of designing monkeys.
We basically [G] started from sort [Dm] of more realistic [C] monkeys [G] and we [Am] liked them but at the same
time we felt like they didn't have [G] enough [Dm] character from the [C] band members.
So [G] we went through [Am] iterations for colours, each one of [C] them had a specific _ [G] face shape [E] and details.
[Am] That's what basically we provided to Mathematics, so the final concept [G] _
models.
The first thing [A] that has come to us was that everything was set together by the director,
[D] like we got the need, we [G] precisely did it with a [A] fine intention of what they wanted to achieve.
[Ab] Our goal was [C] to get the modelling [A] from the Imaginarium and set [G] up the skeleton [Am] so that
we could have the character move.
We received some [A] lip sync from the Imaginarium and it was great for humans but the other
challenge was to make it more animals and then we have to improve all the expression
and make it [Am] more monkey.
I think everyone has been really happy to work together on this session. _ _ _
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