Jacobi Iv's The Curse Of The Hour Glass

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I would like to nominate Jacobi IV’s “The Curse Of The Hourglass”. As the director of this music video alongside my production company Komatik Films, we were able to create a captivating visual that embodies the art of symbolism and storytelling. Up and coming Canadian artist Jacobi IV dropped his innovative debut album “SADE HOUSE" on Apple Music, Google Play and Spotify, which explores themes of love, fame, and understanding self. "The Curse Of The Hourglass” served as his first visual piece off the album "The Curse of the Hour Glass" is a visual representation of the artist's quest for the truth . The Forrest and life are parallels. The forest takes on the characteristics of life representing how things are constantly moving and changing. In " The Curse of the Hour Glass" the protagonist (Jacobi IV) sets off into the world looking for answers only to …show more content…

The beat changes, we see the first encounter displayed in a face off between the two and finally we see the mannerisms of Jacobi IV change. The face off, much like a libra scale shows both opposing forces weighing their options where we see equivalent exchange occur when a deal is offered to Jacobi IV by fame. The deal is finally cemented when fame plants her mark on Jacobi and his eyes change to black symbolizing he his now one with fame. With a budget of only $400 we were able to shoot this video without sparing any details. Working within the budget we were able to cover the DOP, equipment and post-production cost. Inspired by Ridley Scott's " Alien" We didn't allow money to control how creative we were able to be. Just like "Alien" we didn't have the biggest budget to accommodate a huge crew or the perfect lighting but we decided it would be better to have everything in the video have a significant meaning rather than filling it up with over the top effects, loads of women or luxurious

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