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There is a moment in MetallicaThe new three song concert video Apple launched For the Vision Pro yesterday, where the main singer of Metallica, James Hetfield, is kneeling on the edge of the stage, committed to a single member of the fist pumping audience. Hetfield leans centimeters from his face while he and the fanatic shout, before the singer stands up and continues. The attention center follows Hetfield, but the camera stays, persistent when the concert assistant reacts to what has just happened. He gathers against the crowd and then throws himself forward, stabilizing on stage, then buries his face in the elbow, crying.
In many ways Metallica It is like any other concert video, frequently cutting between the shots of the band members while they trot along the stage, other fans, both in the first planes and in high shots that points them directly from above. (There are so many smartphones!) The video of approximately 25 minutes from a program in Mexico City presents three songs from Metallica: “Whiplash”, “One” and “Enter Sandman”, interspersed with documentary style images and voiceover of Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, bass player Robert Trujillo and guitarist Kirk Hammett.
The 180 degree video format of Apple, combined with high production values and clear vision pro screens, ends up adding a lot of additional flavor. That moment with Hetfield and the fan is already a very good concert video address, but this presentation gives it a visceral and emotional weight that I think would be difficult to capture in 2D. The feeling that it was almost there while the camera tracks behind a hetfield of smoking cigarettes, size, on his way to stage, made me think: “Oh wow, he is high. “I put chills when” One “began (I am a person of a certain age; I cannot avoid it), but I could practically feel that my aging feet and the lower part of the back began to pain while Hammett extended the song with only one and the crowd, which now had nothing to sing, lost part of his energy. The public still went crazy for” Enter Sandman “after that.
The immersive Apple collection of The Vision Pro has improved in recent months with the launch of videos such as The Weeknd: open hearts and the fictional short film with script Submerged. Both are great, but although I have enjoyed the rest of the catalog, it often seems that its content is serving the immersive format, not vice versa. MetallicaOn the other hand, it is not just a good immersive video; It is a good concert video, and establishes a bar that Apple should strive to continue gathering.
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