Circles began as a song by emerging Sydney band, Mammals.

• Mammals’ lead singer is Guy Brown from Nylon.
• He asked freelance director, Justin McMillan to direct the video.

• They called in editor, Simon Njoo from One Egg Is Enough

• The entire video was filmed in just under 48 hours, with help from Heliguy.TV’s pilot and MoVI technician, Guy Alexander, for the aerial and underwater cinematography and D.O.P Tim Tregoning with a Red Epic camera and a MoVI stabilised gimbal for the landscape scenes.

• Then Heckler’s executive creative director Garry Jacques and executive producer, Will Alexander added their VFX and colour grading finesse and Heckler’s resources to the post production.

McMillan applauded Brown: “Guy has a connection to the ocean and you can hear it in his sound. When I was his age, I took to the ocean as an escape from the demons in my life; I would runaway to the sea and it became my therapy… and also the central theme behind this story. When I first heard the track, I decided to avoid aligning it with my immediate visual reaction. I loved the song; it’s really well crafted, and so the moving images had to pay it justice. The aim is for the audience to get lost on an abstract journey as they slowly move along to the lyrics.”

…Brown applauded the team: “I couldn’t be happier with the end result and truly appreciate the hard work invested from everyone involved. Everything just came together so naturally – from the team, the concept, weather and the locations,” he explained. “Visually it’s just stunning. You can really tell just how talented and committed everyone was with this project.”

…And the video applauds their teamwork.

Mammals – Circles from Justin McMillan on Vimeo.

Circles is included on Mammals’ EP Animalia set to launch August 15

Creative credits:

Song: Circles by Mammals

Lead singer: Guy Brown, Nylon Studios

Director: Justin McMillan

Producer: Andrew Mclean

DoP: Tim Tregoning

RC Chopper pilot/MoVi technician: Guy Alexander, Heliguy

Movie operator/water DoP: Dean Cropp

1st Camera Assistant: Sam De Talega

2nd Camera Assistant: Ewan Donnachie

Editor: Simon Njoo, One Egg is Enough

Post production: Heckler

Executive producer: Will Alexander

Executive creative director: Garry Jacques

VFX producer: Ali Kennedy

3D generalist (Modelling & FX): Sina Rahimpour

Compositors: Mark Kwanten 
& Maxence Peillon