Still Optimist - With you (Music video)

🎬 With You – Visual Poem

Personal Film Project

Role: Director · DOP · Editor · VFX · Compositing
Tools: Cinema 4D · X-Particles · After Effects · Octane Render · DaVinci Resolve

🖤 Overview

With You is a short visual film exploring the theme of emotional vulnerability through the metaphor of breaking free from a marble shell.

Created entirely as a personal project, I handled all aspects — from direction and cinematography to compositing and visual effects. The film is guided by a minimalist music track with intimate lyrics, focusing on surrender, trust, and creative symbiosis.

✨ Concept

The subject — a singer — appears sculptural and motionless at first, covered in dried white paint like a living statue.

As the piece unfolds, fragments begin to break away: layers of identity, memory, and stillness dissolve in slow, poetic rhythm.

Subtle blue LED-like halos pulse behind the figure in the chorus, symbolising internal transformation and shared emotional resonance.

🎧 Lyrics Excerpt

"With you
It’s pleasant to fall down
With you
I can be weak"

These lyrics informed both the visual narrative and editorial pacing — soft, abstract, and rhythmic.

🧠 Process

Shot on Greenscreen: The performer was filmed in studio with a matte white body paint texture and minimal ambient lighting.

FX Design: Shell-breaking simulations were developed in Cinema 4D with procedural control, paired with subtle noise-based fragmentation.

Compositing: I integrated physical footage and CG debris within a unified monochrome treatment, blending motion with static elements.

Chorus Sections: Introduced circular light shapes to punctuate the emotional beat, echoing the idea of presence, energy, and resonance.