This is a DVD production for the Ballet Kiel and especially for my friend Mario, who is the director of the ballet. As you expect, the content consists of condensed versions of dance performances he made.

Apart from video-cutting i made this typo-animation which is triggered by slow-motion movement of a dancer. I used this principle already for the stage design of ich² but mario just loved it so much and decided to take it as his branding. There we go, i made a hi-res version using pixel-motion frameblending for nice slow-motion of lisa.

The letters are actually generated by a program i wrote in vvvv. You simply feed in some video and according to the amount of bright pixels it will generate the typo animation. The letters are taken from the words ‘Ballett Kiel’ and ‘Mario Schröder’ to have some sort of relation.

The following excerpt was the basis for the menu design of the dvd.