[Editor's Note: No Film School asked Shahir Daud to write up his behind-the-scenes experience directing Nigel Stanford's latest music video.]
In November 2014, Nigel Stanford launched Cymatics: Science Vs Music, an experimental music video that he and I labored on for over a year before releasing it unassumingly on YouTube. The following weeks and months were surreal as Cymatics was posted and written about by both science and filmmaking sites alike (including here on NFS) Even the likes of CNN began sharing the video.
After 13 million views and a few awards, Nigel and I scratched our heads about how we could follow it up. I pitched a few science fiction ideas I'd had on the back burner, but nothing really took. Finally, after a couple of months, Nigel uttered one word that would dominate the next three years of our lives: robots.
“What would the video look like if it were filmed by a robot?”