So thoughtful! Filmmaker reacts to NIGHTWISH - PERFUME OF THE TIMELESS music video 

Hi again ;-) I was the DoP and did the VFX and color grade on this video, double hats once more. Thanks for the compliments... You pretty much nailed most of the things. About the rest, I'm not sure how much of the specifics I can disclose at this point, as we're so close to the release and there indeed is some BTS (about the upcoming album and **perhaps** this video too) that will be released out in the coming weeks. I do not want to steal the thunder. But i can discuss some stuff in general, i think. Part of the reason for not releasing in 4K was indeed the fact that even with today's much more powerful hardware, some things in this video still were very tasking computing-wise, and there was a LOT of stuff in the video. Another reason was consistency: we used bits and pieces from pretty much all available sources you can imagine, and some of it was not very high resolution to begin with. So, we decided it was better to have consistently sharp HD than inconsistent 4K, where some of the shots are sharp, and some other shots jump out as blurrier. The same goes with the colour grade: we tried to remain as consistent as we could with the rather notable colour grade, as well as things like grain, vignetting, lens flaring, and chromatic aberration as we could, not only for the look, but also to tie the vastly different looking source imagery together. The library of the Natural History Museum at Tring was indeed a beautiful location to shoot at. We were surrounded by priceless old books and specimen from the museum - and rather strict rules to not touch anything were in place.

You need to do Shoemaker, Elan and Harvest. Edit: note that Tuomas, the founder, keyboardist and composer of Nightwish, who turns into a tree (representing the circle of life(, considered becoming a marine biologist and has a lasting obsession with oceans. Note also that Nightwish are official ambassadors for the World Land Trust and have a wildlife reservation named after them in Mexico.

Museum part: Natural History Museum at Tring - this museum is in Hertfordshire, England (zoological collections of Sir Walter Rothschild) team in there: Joanne Cooper Ian Watson Catherine O’Carroll Hailey Bickham Claire Walsh They had real freedivers instead of CGI: Freedivers: Guillaume Néry (Footage from “One Breath Around The World” filmed by Franck Seguin ), Tommi Pasanen, Pavlos Kourtellas

I think it is nice that the video starts with a drop of water and ends with it - the circle is round.

Consider the butterflies in this masterpiece. You and I are the product of a near infinity of the smallest of occurances, intended and otherwise. So many "butterfly events," to put us where we are today.

Wow! It was so nice to actually watch a filmaker reacting to this amazing Nightwish video, I love how you go back and breaks down a little all the technical stuff of the video and you are definately a Heavy Metal fan as well, very well done! Thank you for reacting to Nightwish, they really are telling an important message, I'm pretty sure that's the story Tuomas mentioned on a interview that he really don't see many people talking about it, and indeed we don't take it for granted how rare that we are here in the now, and everything that really happened resulting in us against all odds. Nightiwish changed a lot from fantasy to more grounded and scientific lyrical content, but keep the absolute poetry of the lyrics, really inspired in how Dawkings say about nature, I'm a fan since their very beginning, they realy deserve to be the greatest Symphonic Power Metal bands of the last decades...

Hi Manon, greetings from UK That was another great reaction, thank you 😊 The new album will be released in September and they were to release three music videos from the album. This means that we should see two more released before September 😁 I will keep you informed when we are given release dates

yes, Nightwish has a new album coming out. 'YESTERWYNDE' coming out on September 20th. I am very excited for it. i've loved Nightwish for nearly 19 years (give or take 1) I also love your reaction to "Perfume of the Timeless" it gave me much more to think about than only the song. Also also, on your recommendation I watched " One Breath Around the World" and found it a fascinating relaxing story. THANK YOU.

During the pandemic lockdowns Nightwish were supposed to tour their album Human. :II: Nature. - with the help of computer animation they had an Entire virtual world created and sold tickets to their concert. Live show with a green screen “in a tavern”. The room, glass roof, tiles on the tavern floor, mugs of ale all included and “tavern” was set on the cliff above an ocean. It was definitely a highlight in what was a unique time in our history. Planet Hell ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y_wKS-zBt40.htmlsi=AfmBg4n53F7_8RUa

In the heavy section, the image sequence closeup of the Owl's eyes were followed by Einstein's face and eyes. Wize Owl followed by a wize person, who then regresses to an ape face on the chessboard. Interesting sequence.

Some probability calculations: Step 1. Probability of boy meeting girl: one in 20,000. Step 2. Probability of same boy knocking up same girl: one in 2000. Step 3. Probability of right sperm meeting right egg: one in 400 quadrillion. Step 4. Now lets assume that you have just those 12 generations of ancestors mentioned in the intro to this song. For the probability of every one of those 12 generations of your ancestors having reproduced successfully with right sperm having met the right egg is 400 quadrillion to the 12th power. Given these 4 steps, the probability of you being born you at the present moment is 20k x 2k x 400 quadrillion to the 13th power. Going backwards in time with even more generations of your ancestors, we soon reach a probability of 1 divided by the number of atoms in the entire universe. This makes each one of us a unique miracle.

Great reaction Manon😀 For me personally, already this has to be the best musicvideo of 2024. I can't think of any artist coming up with a better one in the next six months.

You are very entertaining also, thankyou Manon

Thanks for your insight on the video, you highlighted Mankind’s influence of the CGI, combining real life footage from nature with the videography. The color choices. The historical events & discoveries of Mankind from science, art, poetry, music & dance There is a lot of Evolution/ Darwin theory in the video too from the lizard. the spider under the stingray, the butterflies, the flight pattern of the birds. The finches “Darwin observed that when two groups of finches competed over the same food source, eventually one of them would evolve a different beak shape so they could feed on something else”. And I think the droplet at the start of the video is the same drop with the little fish at the end of the video. 🐟💧

The last section where Troy sings reminds me visually of the video to "Harvest", which happens to be the song on the last album where he does the lead vocals. Go have a look and see if you also feel that. 🙂 Otherwise, another great reaction. And learning that the diver visuals were actually from another video puts a whole new perspective on this one for me. Will definitely go watch it. And yes, this is the first single from their next album that comes out this summer and I think I read that the next video will be out soon, but I don't have the dates on hand.

Yes, they are about to release a new album. You are so cool, Manon. I love your interpretations. hUg from Mexico.

You must watch Pan and Shoemaker videos, some of Nightwish's best.

Nightwish dont dissapoint "did you feel the ghost energy song" I listened to this song many times by now, and it is one i like to listen to with my headphones or without, its really a good song, when i can do so to me. Some say Floors voice is low in the mix, and i can agree its hard to get all words she sing, but if you look at it soundwise it sounds amazing!! and after a listen or 2, you know most of lyrics, and its no problem at all, its done fully on purpose for the sound experince of it.. cant wait for rest of album!! Yesterwynde is the opening track on new album, i belive its only like a intro, its a little over 2 min long, #2 on album then is a almost 10 min song, thats proberly another epic!! #3 is where i think they bring in a heavy track, and this Perfume of the timeless is #5.. so i think its gonna be a good mix of heavy songs, Epics, and maybe a full balled.. Perfume of the timeless, well its almonst a ghost energy song right, telling all these ancestors is perfume around in a timeless world, being around you still, also a message that your existens matters!! i feel tuomas also put in a little message that mankind could do better still, Einstein turn to ape.. The title of the album is a word made by band member Troy Donockley, which Holopainen describes as the feeling of time, history, memory, and being connected to past generation, who have "all had their lives, their ups and downs, and they don't exist anymore, except as atoms scattered all over the universe. And we're going to be in that state pretty soon as well. So that should give you something to think about." Holopainen has described the album as being about humanism, history, and the inspiration thereof, and that outlook of the album is positive and optimistic ] Track listing Yesterwynde: release date 20th September 2024 All tracks are written by Tuomas Holopainen. Yesterwynde track listingNo. Title Length 1. "Yesterwynde" 2:43 2. "An Ocean of Strange Islands" 9:26 3. "The Antikythera Mechanism" 5:55 4. "The Day of..." 4:34 5. "Perfume of the Timeless" 8:11 6. "Sway" 4:23 7. "The Children of 'Ata" 5:37 8. "Something Whispered Follow Me" 6:39 9. "Spider Silk" 6:26 10. "Hiraeth" 6:14 11. "The Weave" 4:53 12. "Lanternlight" 6:06 Total length: 71:07

This must be some award winning video. The indoor shots are from the "The Tring", (located some Hererfordayshireofshire 😅) a part of the National Historic Museum of the England. Or something like that. Great review, anyway! ⛄👍

So I watched One Breath Around The World and thank you for the recommendation - it blew me away!!

Charles Darwin died in 1882, 6 years before the first surviving film footage. His moving figure is apparently the work of an animation tool with AI elements.

. 🤘 MORE FLOOR 🤘

Yes, this is the first song drop from their new album dropping September 20, 2024, titled Yesterwynde. On Floor, I think they thought her outfit would would be timeless, & interesting to the film, & a bit of a pregnancy cover up.

They are really messing with what we perceive as real in this video. First you think the animal is a sock puppet, then you see Floor's arm and you think the animal is only CGI. After many views I was still undecided which one it is. 😅 Thank you for pointing out that Floor's arm is actually inside the animal and the one we see is a prop arm. This video is so much fun.

They even made Floor's jacket flap a bit in the wind during her opening dive. That's quite an eye for detail.

I think they mentioned a wee while back that they wont be touring this new album but will be bringing out 3 maybe 4 singles with matching videos so this was the 1st there should be more in the near future....

My guess about 4k vs. 1080p is that Nightwish wanted to make the video more accessible worldwide.

There were also Finnish deep divers. Not that it made creating of the video easy.

Thanks for checking out this one. It's so nice to learn from you about film making. One thing I didn't hear you talk about (but no wonder, there's so much to take in) was right after the intro where we see Floor dive into the woods / into the book. Did you notice that the pictures around her change faces as she descends alongside them? Curious to know what you think about that 🙂

😊 There is so much in the video That you with your experience can tell us how they do that😅 And it was a pleasure watching you react to it.

There is atleast part one of back round of this: Nightwish - Yesterwynde (Making Of Documentary Part 1 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N7Q_T58n_Nw.html"

Nightwish's new "Album" comes out on September 20th. It will be in my collection as soon as it isreleased!

🤗🍒🤘🏻😘 well done

Thank you for this one. Great insight.

wow, wat een mooie reactie, genoten. Ik hoorde dingen die nieuw zijn opgemerkt. Zo leren we ook wat. 😊 Bedankt voor het verwijzen naar de clip van de freediver, die ga ik meteen bekijken.

New record in September.

Thank you for the video, I was browsing youtube while having my morning coffee and this slow and calm format combined of Nightwish and your toughtful commentary hit this mood spot just right 😊

Personally, I loved how they tied the raindrop in the beginning the the drop off the leaf in the ending sequences. Taking us from our books, back to the pristine nature of the past. 🤘😎🤘 First-time watcher, thanks for your reaction.

🤘😁🇫🇮💙🪄🎼✨💯👍 Nightwish playlist ty 💙🇫🇮

Enjoyed chatting with you during the premiere, but wanted to rewatch it without distraction before commenting. When you think about it, there are so many different things happening in this video. It could easily come out as a sloppy mess, if not done properly, but everything just seems to flow together really well, and fits the music perfectly. A song this "big" needs a video to match that kind of grandness, and they definitely delivered. This one will be talked about for years, I think.

Hi, I so like your rection/analysis to Nightwish videos, you put another perspective/layer on the take. As we all know already Nightwish (Tuomas, the keyboard player) has always a deeper meaning with both lyrics and music and for sure when they are making videos too. He is a Poet using music lyrics and visuals. It is very common for him us use references between Nightwish songs also, so as you go deeper into the catalogue of Nightwish you will get that too. As I said is really like your analytic take on the visuals, and I would be even greater If you can connect them to the lyrics, so can I suggest that you read the lyrics beforehand? and in that way connect the visuals even more? You connected some dots already in this so you are close :) Sadly there is not that many music videos to Nightwish HUGE music repertoire but there are a few more. The previous album "Human. :II: Nature." has aloot of videos since it was released at the beginning of the Covid19 pandemic, and some of them can be hard to "interpret" the visuals, so it would be great if you can take on some of them :) You did "Noise" already, but I can suggest "Shoemaker" and "Pan" but then again you also have "Harvest", "How's the Heart", "Music", "Tribal" well the whole album actually :) Really hope to se more Nightwish from you soon :)

As for suggestion on what to watch, if you are into animated series may I suggest "Blue Eyed Samurai" and "Arcane"? Gorgeous animation, detailed world building with visual storytelling, interesting charcater studies and dark af.

You mention the opening and it's text pointing out the many who had to come before us so that we could exist. From my reading about the history of humanity, you come to realize that a frightening number of times we have come very close to being wiped out as a species, either by nature or by our own hand. Or perhaps if not wiped out, at least relegated to a much less successful species.

The shot where character falls past the semi-still images is I think a represntation of the perception of linear time from an external non-linear point of view from a higher dimensional point of view. You would see a timeline as a still set of images, one moment after the other that you could walk through as you wished. You could also enter and interact with each moment in any order you wanted to. Also an RL eagle can carry away a deer. They can even do a human but I've never heard of it happening.

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Floor is wearing a coat made of Falcor from The Never Ending Story lol In a more realistic note, the prop looks like caribou (or its ancestor's) coat/remains

Interesting perspectives!

Production values. I can't remember being so excited in anticipation, for quite a while! An epic journey! 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1,024, 2,048, keep going… Genealogy. Tuomas doing his déjà vu tricks… Radioactivity. [Paradise? What about us?]. Creation of stars, neurons, our ancestors. [I think, therefore I am] A drop of water. Galápagos Marine Iguana, _in the blink of an eye._ [Darwin, 11 Sub-species, on different islands, each differing in size, shape and colour] Freediving. [Ocean Born?]. The Yonaguni Monument. [Deep Silent Complete?] We are the dream of many ancestors. [Everdream?] “A railroad across waters, the scent of grandfatherly love”, [I want my tears back] Natural History Museum Library at Tring, Hertfordshire, UK, Charles Darwin, His Letters, Voyage of HMS Beagle, etc. [TGSOE]. *Underwater rivers* (of different salinity, with toxic Hydrogen Sulphide!). Freedivers: Guillaume Néry (with his wife doing some of the video!) Tommi Pasanen also filming, Pavlos Kourtellas. [This ancient unseen stream] Yep: Footage from “One Breath Around The World” filmed by Franck Seguin. National Geographic, Free Diver; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L4qM1IEhtNQ.html Scary Giant Angler Fish! [“Songs of the Humpback Whale”, a 1970 album of humpback whale songs, recorded by Roger Payne, Katie Payne and Frank Watlington, is still the best-selling nature sounds album of all time!]. Coelacanth (thought to be long extinct, there was a video clip in the entrance to The Natural History Museum in London). *Impossible animals and birds!* Hyenas are not capable of walking vertically downwards! Thomas letting you know, _this is imagination…_ Poor baby Barn Owl :) Winding up a music box, for a lullaby? [Taikatalvi?] How many arms does scary Floor have? Muppet comedy? *Dodo.* Extinction by man. Leap of faith, [Élan?]. “The elsewhere creatures yet unseen, Finally your number came up, free fall awaits the brave”. Blinking portrait, screaming portrait, "Shhh" portrait... Landing _On the_ “Origin of Species”. Where is TGSOE? 11:22 "Eyes of Sharbat Gula", that ‘look’ from Floor! *Finches,* the specific adaptation of their bills, which inspired Charles Darwin. Goldfinch taking flight. Spooky Tuomas grabbing a book. [Interstellar?] Why is Kai thumbing pages backwards? [History?] Poor Emppu "sneezing" :) [“The Siren”, What was that movie: "The Abyss”?] The Greenland shark (a Sleeper Shark), is the world’s longest living vertebrate. It can live for *400 years!* Troy the magician. The Butterfly effect! [Fringe?] Troy could be a great Walter Bishop! The colorists. Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, William Shakespeare. The flight of Terns. Mona Lisa. Jukka vanishing. Finches again. Did the diver actually get to swim with Humpback Whales and vertically sleeping Sperm Whales? *Perfume, Ambergris! We are the distillation of our ancestors dreams.* Tuomas the tree-hugger becomes a tree. Wrecks. Humanity, waste, litter. *Water is life. “WE WERE HERE!”* “Life in us is like the water in a river.” ― Henry David Thoreau “Water is the driving force in nature.” ― Leonardo da Vinci “The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.” ― Ibn Khaldun “In one drop of water, are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of you, are found all the aspects of existence.” ― Kahlil Gibran Jr. Edited & Directed by: Ville Lipiäinen (of course!) © A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts Limited Oy 2024 [Jukka Nevalainen, Managing Director].

regarding tv...nothing new...but since it's june I just started my REWATCch FOR SENSE8 of my ALL-TIME faves!!!

The free dive footage is made with 3 different Finnish free divers so I am curious about the docu

4K is the problems of the first world and the current generation, in my parents' childhood the radio was the most amazing invention and many families did not have electricity. A couple of generations ago, life was probably mostly about survival , and life hasn't changed much in decades or centuries. Today, the average Westerner has the opportunity for things that royalty and nobles could not imagine just 150 years ago (access to vast amount of information all over the world, communication with almost anyone on earth, food and goods available from almost anywhere all the time, the ability to travel thousands of kilometers away in hours) Even this would not have been possible twenty years ago, namely to write a comment in Finnish on the phone and it will appear translated for anyone to read 😉

The ghosts are all band members.

I'd assume that it was filmed in at least 4K and then released on RU-vid at 1080P. I'm pleased to see you wearing a Gojira t-shirt - excellent choice.

What perplexes me the most in this music video is the underwater shot starting at 15:00 (going by the timing in your reaction video). They must've composited a water surface on it... but then something else is going on, is it in reverse? It couldn't've been just a shot from One Breath, could it?

Hi Manon. Love your reactions. On Nightwish it is an absolute disgrace their work has never been considered for the Emmys etc. Just shows how warped those awards are. Just for bubblegum crap.

Can I recommend to you the band Sabaton, and one of their songs and video Christmas Truce!!!!???

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The band has said they used 3 different free divers

Great reaction. Élan and Shoemaker are a must, if you're interested. Yes, for some reason some videos go through for some when the same ones are blocked for others. That's like the silliest thing to me. I say, if you're gonna block it, block it all the time. If not, don't, all the time! Then again, it may have to do with whose upload you're watching?? My suggestion is to get it from the band or the record company, that being Nightwish or Nuclear Blast Records respectively. Stay safe and stay blessed. 😊❤️🤘🤘

SABATON. Music videos with history lessons.

Pretty sure Darwin had more books than "Origin of the Species" and that as he found a new species, he ate it. He'd document it for his books and have it prepared for a meal. Interestingly, the means of reaching, documenting, and classifying species changed so much at the beginning of the 20th century that we found that many early classifications were blatantly wrong, and others simply didn't exist at all. New evolved species come into existence every day, while several species die out every day. We used to say that fish all evolved from common ancestry, but we've found that this concept is completely wrong. With genetics we've found some truly unusual discoveries. Elephants evolved from Manatees (or from the common ancestor both are related to at least). In the last 100 years we've learned more about the evolution of every living thing than we learned combined prior to 1900 - and everything is still evolving. We may never learn everything, but with genetics we'll at least gain understanding how things relate.

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Thanks for your reaction! But i have to say: You did a video reaction, you have not one word done about the music! Tuomas did an incredible work on this piece of art! On the Nightwish RU-vid channel you can find the info about the new album and also the lyrics of this song.

So, I find this video quite unsettling. That's not a complaint, just an observation of how it hits me. I think it's the way features that are obviously fake are mixed with ones that look entirely real and ones where I have no idea. I enjoy it, but not in a straightforward way, if that makes any sense.

Musically, with their last album Nightwish have shot off on a tangent to what they were previously. Its like a totally different band and doesn't appeal to me nearly as much as their previous work. I had hoped it was a one-off, but this song, sadly (for me) seems to show it isn't. I get that its good.....but it just isn't for me. I've been a fan for over last 25 years, but now? Ah well, it was great while it lasted, but all thing end eventually. I always have their other previous albums and live concert videos.

I'm 46 years old guy but even after seeing it at least dozen times it's looking very scary to me. The whole video. Probably something wrong with me. I'm old fan of Nightwish but honestly I don't like this song at all.