Film · Immersive · Interactive Sound
Hennessy V.S.O.P, Mastered from Chaos
A film and interactive experience that turned the chaos of the cognac's blend into something you could see and hear.
Hennessy V.S.O.P is mastered from more than a hundred eaux-de-vie, an invisible act of order pulled out of chaos.
To make that craft felt, we built a film and an interactive online experience that translated the turbulence of the blend into image and sound: live-action cinematography fused with LiDAR scans and 3D point clouds, scored in real time so the picture and the audio moved as one.
Order from chaos
Environments and performers were captured as dense point clouds, then dissolved and reassembled, turbulence resolving into balance, frame by frame.
The interactive experience let people move through that process themselves, the soundtrack responding to where they looked and what they touched. A portrait of mastery, built from the mess it comes from.
Studio: Droga5, New York
Client: Hennessy
Scope: Film, interactive online experience, real-time sound
Tech: LiDAR capture, 3D point clouds, live action
Recognition: Cannes Lions & Webby Award, 2017