U2 Vertigo tour visuals

Whilst talking to Sam Pattinson at a onedotzero contributors event (in which 'Terra 2050' was in being shown) I mentioned that id been looking at some of Len Lye's techniques, apparently Lye had been referenced in discussions over the visuals for the 'Vertigo' tour and it was suggested I make some images for one of the tracks. I then spent two weeks painting strips of colour and pattern onto frame strips (pictures of lengths of film) whilst listening to 'Bullet the Blue Sky'. The material was cut to beat, recoloured and used with the track 'All because of you', on the huge LED matrix screen during the tour

 

Below are three examples of the framestrips before editing / recolouring.

Below is an example of part of a 'filmstrip', used in the visuals. It was painted in 'Artrage' and re-exported to after effects to animate it.

framestrip example