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“My identify is Rudy Mancuso. I’m the director, composer, and co-writer of ‘Música.’” [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING] “This sequence that I name the theatrical montage is sort of a five-minute oner. So the entire thing is shot in a single take. I assume it was at all times my unorthodox method to your typical second or third act montage. As you see right here, all of it begins in Rudy’s bed room. And Rudy, who’s performed by me, based mostly on me with this situation known as synesthesia, the place he has a singular relationship to sound. And music and sounds flip into rhythm. And the reveal is that we’re on a stage, opens up. And the intention of the scene was for the very chaotic vitality of attempting to drag off an elaborate oner with movable units which can be flying out and in and being assembled and disassembled in actual time displays the chaos on this character’s life. This is the purpose within the movie the place Rudy is juggling the three folks he cares about most in his life, and he’s mendacity to all of them. On the web page, it’s truly known as the rhythm of lies. As we see right here, that is his long-time girlfriend, who’s attempting to rekindle issues with him, Haley, performed by Francesca Reale.” “Later.” “Yeah.” [MUSIC PLAYING] “Next, we see that set disappear and a brand new arrange right here that’s meant to emulate Rudy’s home, Rudy’s mom’s kitchen, one other girl in his life that he’s mendacity to, who’s performed by my precise mom, Maria Mancuso.” “I promised — I promised Anwar that I’d hang around with him.” “Oh, yeah?” “Yeah. But I’ll goodbye.” “O.Okay.” “I like you.” “All proper, I like you, too.” – [NON-ENGLISH] “O.Okay., all proper.” [MUSIC PLAYING] “And then, the third, in fact, that we’re about to see is his newfound relationship with Isabella, Camila Mendes right here, who performs Isabella, who he’s beginning to develop actually keen on. And what was vital to me was that not solely that the digital camera by no means stopped, as a result of that’s tough and difficult and Rudy’s life is tough and difficult, but in addition have the lighting cues be syncopated to rhythm. So anytime a brand new gentle is powered on and one other one is off, these cues are literally in time with the music. The different factor that was vital to me was for Rudy to vary his personal wardrobe in actual time. And that the massive query. How is admittedly going to vary outfits? And I stated, properly, what if he simply modifications it himself?” – [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] – [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] – [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] “So that background, that piece, which I consider is on wheels, needed to be flipped — rotated, flipped. Lights needed to fly out. New lights needed to fly in. And yeah, it’s a really reside performance-y, theatrical method to a montage, which was — which was at all times the imaginative and prescient. And at this level, we’re retracing our steps. Basically, we went ahead and tracked Rudy from behind, rotated to the precise, after which got here again to the left. And now we’re going backwards, retracing the steps. Amazonia, which is a refined nod to our studio — the digital camera at this level is now rotating a full 180, and we’re attempting on this second to emulate some sort of nightlife, lounge, membership surroundings.” “But I can’t actually have a late night time tonight. I simply have a lot.” “Oh, it’s O.Okay.” “So a lot stuff. Sure.” “I need to, although.” “That’s positive.” “You perceive?” “Yeah.” “And the final stage location is the one you’re about to see right here, which is supposed to emulate a movie show, which we simply did with some intelligent lighting and projection. This entire piece was very well ready. We didn’t have lots of time. I assume one by no means does. But notably to drag this oner off, as a result of it was very elaborate, we additionally had my very tall order of wanting it to additionally syncopate rhythmically. And all of it ends the place it started, which was additionally essential to me. It begins and ends in Rudy’s bed room. And by the point the digital camera totally flips again round to the place we began, it appears like we’re again within the bed room. You don’t see that divide behind him within the background. So with intelligent schematics designed by my manufacturing designer, Patrick Sullivan, and my wonderful DP Shane Hurlbut, and myself, we have been in a position to pull this unimaginable factor off.” [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]
