Royal Caribbean - Oceanides
WORDWIDE
This project was part of my work as a Multimedia Director at Moment Factory.
Oceanides is a daring performance filmed in a custom-built rotating water tank and showcased exclusively on Royal Caribbean’s robot-screens installation.
To pull off this creative and technical challenge, the team constructed an airtight box the same size as the screens to create the illusion that human-scale performers are swimming inside each of them. To harness the theatrical potential of the robotic screens, the tank’s rotations were captured with a motion-controlled camera engineered to emulate the screen’s tilts and movements. All special effects were created on set, including choreography synchronized to follow shifts in gravity amongst tropical fish, small alligators, and crocodiles.
Oceanides tells the story of a pearl diver who encounters oceanic nymphs in her search for treasure. Featuring an original score, the story draws inspiration from the Ama, Japan’s legendary female free divers who have scoured the ocean floor for pearls for thousands of years.
Oceanides has been nominated in the innovation award category at the 32nd PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA AWARDS 2021
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MOMENT FACTORY
Executive Creative Director: Sakchin Bessette
Producers: Joy Marsal, Mathieu Grainger
Senior Production Coordinator: Magalie Desrochers
Concept Writer: Emily Raine
Production Designer: Lucy Rybicka
Content Producers: Richard Cormier, Catherine Grenier, Martin Girard
Content Coordinators: Catherine Lamontagne-Poirier, Marine Scélin
Robot-Screen Animator: Maxime Grenier
Content Technical lead: Ryan Marshall
VFX Supervisor: Patrice Bilodeau
Motion Designers: Esteban Chacin, Gregory Stankowski, Pierre-Alexis Tremblay
FILM CREW
Production: Sailor Productions
Producers: Mathieu Dumont, Joelle Raymond
Production Manager: Jocelyn Aubé
Assistant Director: Cedrick Kluysken
Director of Photography: Pierre Gill
Costume Designer: YSO
Art Director: Louisa Schabas
Hair & Makeup Artist: Maïna Militza
Set Decorator: Alex Hercule Desjardins
Special Mechanical Effects: Guillaume Murray, MFX Production
Choregrapher: Paula Holmwood
CAST
Natalia Anthopoulou
Miho Arai
Paula Holmwood
Audrey Houle
Gabrielle Marie Lepage
Laurie Wakelam
MUSIC
Composed by: Vincent Letellier
Lyrics by: Emily Raine
Performed by: Sabrina Sabotage Bellemare
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CREDITS MOMENT FACTORY TEAM: Aaliyeh Afshar | Annie Leclerc-Casavant | Basile Buisson | Benjamin Le Talour | Carolyne Shapiro | Catherine Grenier | Catherine Lamontagne-Poirier | David Richard | Eduardo Teles de Andrade | Emily Raine | Emmanuel Bastid | Esteban Chacin | Francis Clement | François Desrochers | Geneviève Mousseau | Gregory Stankowski | James Richardson | Jonathan Chammas | Jordi Gauthier | Julien Demers-Arsenault | Lucy Rybicka | Magalie Desrochers | Marine Scelin | Martin Girard | Mathieu Grainger | Mathieu Monnier | Maxime Grenier | Myriam Dechamplain | Patrice Bilodeau | Ryan Marshall | Sakchin Bessette | Vincent Letellier
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