The Vision Pro Metallica concert is the best immersive video Apple to date
A moment ago in MetallicaThe new concert video of three songs Apple released For The Vision Pro yesterday, where the Metallica singer, James Hetfield, kneels on the edge of the stage, hired with a single member of the pumping public. Hetfield leans a few centimeters from his face while he and the fan scream, before the singer gets up and passes. The projector follows Hetfield but the camera remains in place, lingering as the spectator reacts to what has just happened. He falls back against the crowd then launches forward, stabilizing on the stage, then buried his face in his elbow, crying.
In many ways, Metallica is like any other concert video, frequently cut between the shooting of the members of the group while they trot around the scene, others of fans, both in close -ups and in overflight shots which point them directly upwards. (There are so many smartphones!) The video of about 25 minutes from a Mexico shot show has three songs from Metallica – “Whiplash”, “One” and “Enter Sandman” – interspersed with Documentary Style and Hetfield Social Sequences, drummer Lars Ulrich, bass player Robert Trujillo and guitarist Kirk Hammett.
The 180 -degree video format from Apple, combined with high production values and net vision screens, ends up adding a lot of additional flavor. This moment with Hetfield and the fan is already a very good concert video direction, but this presentation gives a visceral and emotional weight which, I think, would be difficult to capture in 2D. The feeling that I was almost there when the camera followed behind a hetfield smoking cigars, on me on his way to the stage, made me think: “Oh wow, he is big. “I had chills when” a “started (I am a person of a certain age; I cannot help it), but I could practically feel my aging feet and the lower back begins to hurt me while Hammett extended the song with a long solo and the crowd, which had nothing more to sing, lost part of his energy. The audience was always crazy.
The Apple Immersive Vision Pro collection has improved in recent months with the release of videos like The Weeknd: Open Hearts and the Scripted fictitious short film Overwhelmed. The two are great, but although I appreciated the rest of the catalog, it often seems that its content serves the immersive format, not the other way around. MetallicaOn the other hand, is not only a good immersive video; It is a good concert video, and it establishes a bar on which Apple should endeavor to continue to meet.
