Plug your computer into a widescreen TV, set to ‘full screen’ with a great sound system turned all the way up. You’ve never seen Muse like this before! You’re on stage, in front of 80,000 screaming fans. And you’re in control of the cameras and the edit from the 7 revolutionary MATIvision©™ spherical cameras positioned around the stage.
Shot over the course of the band's two sell out shows at Wembley Stadium in September 2010 and produced by Metropolis' Dan Ruttley, this spectacular new footage utilises MATIvision, a revolutionary new approach to producing, distributing and interactively experiencing audiovisual content. Viewers use their mouse to rotate their viewpoint, zoom-in/out to focus on the action and move between different physical viewing positions. By doing all this interactively, viewers feel as if they were really present in the event. MATIvision©™ is already changing the way we experience live music performances through the Internet by adding the one key missing ingredient: Total viewer interactivity.
Dan says: “We were really privileged that MUSE wanted to adopt this technology to help showcase their latest tour. There is no band more perfect – their concerts are so dynamic and on such a grand scale – every time you turn the camera around something else incredible is happening.
Most importantly their fans love new technologies so the response has been utterly incredible. My role as producer involved thinking about how the fans will view/use this material. There’s less for me to do outside of ensuring the camera placement allows them something to look at all the time from all angles, then it’s up to them to do the rest. They pan, tilt and zoom the cameras, then decide when to put an edit between camera angles. There are 7 angles per track, so that’s up to 56 minutes of video for each track.
To see everything in each angle you’d have to watch quite a few times – you do the maths! There are so many new creative directions this technology opens up, its unreal!” Initially released by the band as a Christmas gift to their email database, the footage is now available for all to view on the band's website (www.muse.mu) and the responses have been phenomenal. For example: “It's just hit me how special this is - being able to see the gig as if you were on stage, stood right next to the band... being able to focus on one member at a time, the possibilities...”
Try spinning around stage yourself in this seek peek
here.
