Boards of Canada - In a Beautiful Place - Drama Inspiration

While constructing the Pinterest mood boards to get the group's ideas flowing, I came across a music video creator named Neil Krug. A couple of his pieces were inspiring, including a video for In a Beautiful Place by Boards of Canada.

Krug uses a strange mix of what looks like tarnished film stock, combined with a kaleidoscope, in order to produce a unique and surreal aesthetic. While the actual scene behind the effects is clear in places, Krug gradually degrades the clarity of the image, the kaleidoscopic effect distorting the subjects and transforming them into abstract compositions.

This layering of effects is extremely effective, especially as the appearance of tarnished film becomes more detailed and appears as its own highly-detailed kaleidoscopic, almost mandala-like patterns.