OVERPASS 2020 · MINO · GRAY

OVERPASS 2020 Virtual Live Concert
Laser direction for MINO & GRAY

Filmed at S-Factory, Seongsu, Seoul · Released online September 26, 2020

Lasers crossing an empty warehouse surround MINO and GRAY as they perform. Following the music, the light opens into fans and shifts into lines across the floor.

Client: OVERPASS
Artist: MINO · GRAY
Year: 2020
KNOVCOMPILE's role: Laser scene design and direction
On-set laser operation

MINO singing into a microphone as laser beams cross his face

A concert without an audience,
A stage built with light

OVERPASS is a US music festival bringing artists from different countries onto one stage. In 2020, it became a virtual concert, releasing performances prerecorded without an audience online on September 26. MINO's performance was filmed in an empty warehouse in Seongsu, Seoul. With no raised stage or seating, KNOVCOMPILE created laser scenes around the performers and across the depth of the warehouse.

An empty warehouse under fluorescent lights, with columns and yellow floor markings — Before filming · The empty warehouse

MINO standing before violet fan-shaped beams spreading from the far end of the same warehouse — During the performance · The same warehouse filled with lightVideo still · OVERPASS

From moodboards
to on-set operation

Starting with the performance concept and location shared in preproduction meetings, we designed different light forms for each song and operated them on set to suit the camera and performance.

01
Preproduction meetings · Moodboards
We review the artist's stage concept and filming location, then establish the atmosphere with horizontal laser beams and haze.
Concept · Location · Mood
02
Laser scenes for each song
Beam direction, color and movement follow the music, giving each song its own scenes.
Setlist · Beam shapes · Color
03
On-set operation
We adjust the beams to the camera movement and performance, operating the scenes throughout the shoot.
Rehearsal · Beam adjustment · Filming

A filming monitor showing a performer and laser beams across the warehouse — Reviewing laser scenes on the monitor

Laser beams and filming equipment in haze, with the laser control interface on the right — Laser controls and the film set

Silhouettes of the camera crew in pink laser light — The film crew in pink beams

MINO
Beams unfolding with the performance

From group choreography to solo moments, fans of light and lines across the floor frame each scene to match the scale of the performance.

OVERPASS 2020 · Laser scenes from MINO's performanceVideo · OVERPASS

Laser forms that change with each song

Fans, diagonals and floor lines combine with the flow of each song. Beams stretch between the warehouse's repeating columns, revealing its depth.

TRIGGER · ROCKETViolet fan-shaped beams at the end of the warehouse and red lines across the floor

Violet fan-shaped beams spreading behind MINO — TRIGGERVideo still · OVERPASS

MINO and dancers above red beams tracing the floor — ROCKETVideo still · OVERPASS

MINO and dancers performing group choreography under blue beams — ROCKETVideo still · OVERPASS

I'M HIMDiagonal beams across a space shifting between pink and blue

MINO and diagonal beams across a pink-lit space — Pink beamsVideo still · OVERPASS

MINO under beams pouring into the blue-lit warehouse — Blue beamsVideo still · OVERPASS

A close-up with green and white beams passing beside his face — Beams passing beside his faceVideo still · OVERPASS

OKEY DOKEY · ALCHEMYFlashing beams and violet-blue light filling the warehouse

Fan-shaped beams flashing in the dark warehouse — Flashing beamsVideo still · OVERPASS

MINO at the center of the blue-lit warehouse — The blue warehouseVideo still · OVERPASS

White beams tracing the violet-lit warehouse floor — Beams tracing the floorVideo still · OVERPASS

BODY · FIANCÉGroup choreography among beams crossing like a red grid

MINO and dancers in the warehouse among crossing red beams — Red gridVideo still · OVERPASS

Dancers lying on the floor beneath cascading pink beams — Group choreography in pink beamsVideo still · OVERPASS

MINO and dancers standing in a line beneath the beams — Final group sequenceVideo still · OVERPASS

An empty warehouse floor,
a different stage for every song.

GRAY
A laser performance unfolding before the DJ booth

Beams unfold between the DJ booth and the performer. Lines across the floor and fans of light from behind create different layers of depth, changing the scene as the camera moves.

OVERPASS 2020 · GRAYVideo · OVERPASS

GRAY performance · Lines across the floor — Lines across the floorVideo still · OVERPASS

GRAY performance · Fans of light from behind — Fans of light from behindVideo still · OVERPASS

GRAY performance · Light surrounding the performer — Light surrounding the performerVideo still · OVERPASS

GRAY performance · Beams crossing the space — Beams crossing the spaceVideo still · OVERPASS

Full TRIGGER performance

OVERPASS 2020 · MINO — TRIGGERVideo · OVERPASS Music Festival

Credits

Client: OVERPASS
Artist: MINO · GRAY
Performance: OVERPASS 2020 Virtual Live Concert
Online streaming · September 26, 2020
Filming: S-Factory, Seongsu, Seoul
Laser scene design and direction On-set laser operation: KNOVCOMPILE
Video: OVERPASS Music Festival

OVERPASS 2020 Virtual Live Concert Laser direction for MINO & GRAY

A concert without an audience, A stage built with light

From moodboards to on-set operation

Preproduction meetings · Moodboards

Laser scenes for each song

On-set operation

MINOBeams unfolding with the performance