Beyond The Labyrinth - Oceans Apart

Beyond The Labyrinth
-
Oceans Apart
from the "Chapter III - Stories" album

Synopsis: Boy Meets Girl - But how deep is the water? For a special song, Beyond The Labyrinth (BTL) dreamed up a special approach... When trying to visualize 'Oceans Apart', a powerful classic rock ballad, it quickly became obvious that the storyline was right there, in the lyrics of the song. Working out the storyboard for the video clip, it started to lead a life on its own. So, instead of preparing to put it on video, the storyboard was laid out in a comic book format.

The A-HA experience? And that's where people say, 'Aha, like in the A-Ha video clip?' The answer being, "No, not really, actually more like in the PRINCE - 'Sign O' The Times' video." But please read on...

Most images used in the comic book are based on pictures by (BTL singer) Jo De Boeck, an accomplished photographer. After the layout of the book was ready, 2 things happened:

- The comic book was sent of to the printer to be printed in 2 copies (1 original, 1 backup copy) to be used in a live action shot.

- The images, text bubbles etc were exported to separate files for the compositing in Final Cut.

The action (person reading comic book) happens in real time underneath the text bubbles, it was artificially aged with a special "old movie" filter to give an effect of timelessness, as timeless as the song's subject and the music. On top of that, straight from the computer's hard disk; came the separate comic strips, treated with a soft focus filter for that "dreamy" effect.

The result is a great looking, original video clip with appeal to a large audience.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• classic rock
• melodic rock
• AOR
• Oceans Apart
• Beyond The Labyrinth
• Chapter III - Stories
• Belgium

[SweetyZanetti]

This song gave me goosebumps at first, I love the lyrics, they have a special meaning to me, my "best" friend lives.... oceans apart.

I can hardly wait till the day we finally can meet, then we're not oceans apart anymore..... ;))

[GIOTA578]

How many of us didn't feel like this..?Thank you for this wonderful song..the killer lyrics that went straight to my heart..thank you..

[frosco22]

ik wist niet dat je heden ten dagen nog van deze leuke bandjes kon ontdekken. Op de cd steengoed, maar ook live staat het als een huis.

Ga zo door. Ik ben nu al benieuwd naar de volgende cd.