Chiodos Pay Tribute For "Notes In Constellations"

Michigan based post hardcore act Chiodos have posted their video on IFC for "Notes In Constellations" taken from band's third album, "Illuminaudio." Behold the cosmic time lapses, captured in the dark of night with a new motion control technology in this newly released video, which weaves a tale about two lovers who are separated by a tragic death.
"Notes In Constellations" was written about Christopher "Notes" Olsen, a longtime musical collaborator, producer and friend of Chiodos vocalist Brandon Bolmer. The song was inspired by the untimely death of Olsen and references the pain of losing a loved one. Bolmer elaborates, "I had started writing the song years ago, on a trip up to the snowy mountains of Big Bear, CA with my girlfriend, her sister, and Notes. The song was originally written about two lovers who were forced to part ways from one another. After his death, the song took on a dual meaning and became a song that Notes could have written for his girlfriend after he passed on."
The video by young directors, Ryan Southwell and John Stephens, inspired by this sad back story, weaves a tale about two lovers who are separated by a tragic death but still with each other through the stars. It features multiple astro time-lapse shots of various locations in California, which were filmed using new multi-axis, motion control technology. The time-lapse footage creates a cinematic, ethereal visual with a ghostly, distorted sense of time. The band's performance footage was filmed using a green screen, with the song's narrative elements captured in downtown Los Angeles.
No CGI or post effects were used in the filming of the heavenly time lapses you are about to witness, they are completely organic, in a cosmic sense. The Los Angeles based directors have been shooting together for several years, but this is only their second official music video. Southwell and Stephens used a new, multi-axis, motion control technology to shoot them outdoors. They shot all of the band performance footage against a green screen, the female narrative at a loft, and the astro time-lapses at various locations in California over a period of several nights all for real -- nothing is CGI or was comp'd in post. After talking about the concept with Bolmer they decided to explore the star lover theme fully and create a distorted sense of time using the time-lapse and a lot of slow-motion. "It's about losing someone you love and coming to a belief that they're still with you in the stars," Stephens affirmed.