Spotify Sonic Science
A Spotify Sonic Science commercial built as a series of vignettes about how music shows up in everyday life. Shot across multiple Columbus locations on a compressed schedule with a skeleton crew. Directed by Jon Reisinger.
- Director
- Jon Reisinger
- Location
- Columbus, OH
- Camera
- RED Komodo
- Director
- Jon Reisinger
- Director of Photography
- Grant Smucker
Spotify Sonic Science asked for a series of vignettes about how music shows up in everyday life. People listening at work, at home, in transit, in the moments most ads ignore. The brief was intimate and broad at the same time. Multiple locations across Columbus, a compressed schedule, a small crew, every vignette carrying its own world.
We shot on RED Komodo. The Komodo is the body that earned its place on every fast multi-location job. Small enough to handle without three people on the camera, image quality that doesn't apologize when it hits the timeline next to a hero shot. We ran it on a MoVI Pro for the floating walk-with-subject coverage and handheld for the moments that needed the body of a person behind the camera. The shoot moved fast. The camera had to keep pace without becoming a problem.
Lighting was a small package by design. An Aputure 1200D for daylight key when we needed to balance against bright windows. An ARRI SkyPanel S60 for the soft sources that had to read as motivated room light. A set of Astera Titan tubes for the practicals and color accents that gave each vignette its own temperature. With a skeleton crew and a location list that long, every light had to set fast and read clean on the first take. Nothing in the package was there to look impressive on the truck.
Music in everyday life means the cinematography has to feel everyday too. Not stylized for its own sake. The camera follows people through their moments. The light motivates from where the eye expects it. The vignettes hold together because every small moment got the same craft a hero shot would. Directed by Jon Reisinger.
