Vj Animation

Combining technology and creativity, Production MD now offers visual content creation services for video projections. Seeing the growing demand in this area, PMD always on the lookout for new trends is embarking on this evolution and expansion of video production.

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Corporate events - Galas - Ceremonies

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Audio-visual shows of all kinds and styles

Customized visual animations

About VJ

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been to a club! Raise your hand also if you have already danced during the night, on the frantic rhythms of the music that bewitches you…!

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Well! After a few hours on the dance floor and your blood alcohol level rising by the minute, you turn to the DJ and tadammmm! You are hypnotized. You then see the turntables of the DJ transform before your eyes to suddenly become an extension of his arm. Man and machine finally in perfect symbiosis, welded to each other. It is also at this precise moment, that you look around you and a whirlwind of multicolored colors make you fall into an unreal world. Giant screens project images of all kinds, bits of movies, photos, paintings and graffiti that simply merge with music. Dear friends (es), behind this perfect mix of music and images is a DJ and a VJ. For most of you, the term DJ is rather familiar, but what about the term VJ? In this article, I explain where this term comes from and especially, what is the role of the VJ in events.

The little story of the vjing

First of all, it is good to know that the term VJ is the abbreviation of the word: Visual Jockey or Video Jockey. This new breed of mixers made its appearance at the end of the 20th century in the wake of the techno movement. It is also possible to trace its origin in the New York clubs of the 70s. As you can see, the phenomenon has long remained confined to the world of undergroud. He began to surface, when the famous TV channel MTV, called VJ its presenter of video clips. Until very recently, VJS were considered technicians and not artists in their own right. In fact, it is said that in the 1980s, Mrs Merrill Aldighieri, was the very first person to see the term Video Jockey written on her payslip, after improvising on music, thanks to an installation of slide projections, super-8 or 16 mm.

The VJ and the computer

Nowadays, there are several forms of Vjing as there is no standardized approach. Each VJ has its own conception of Vjing. However, they have one thing in common and that is the use of the computer. This technological tool allows the creation of virtual montages combining sound and visual animations. This technique being more and more widespread, it borrows its effects from the pictorial composition in transparency as well as the play of colors in a superposition of layers. For this purpose, the VJ uses the Resolume software to mix with three different tracks. The computer is connected to a MIDI table, which allows shortcuts to a range of visual effects and the set can be accompanied by a mixing console, all connected to a video projector.

The vjing and the events

Although Vjing is an ephemeral art, it is increasingly used in events. At high-end events with quality performances, the VJ makes sure to enrich the work of the DJ by translating into images the sounds produced by the latter. The palette of the VJ is wide, it combines high-pitched sounds with warm shades and low-pitched sounds with cold shades. For those who would like to improvise VJ, know that there is a whole vocabulary of the image. The VJ normally has a very dense media library, through scraps of films in super 8, VHS or 3D, photographs, reproductions of paintings, images and others. In events, this technique is often used to dress places in a trendy, unique and whimsical way. Be sure that the Vjing will highlight all your spaces and create an atmosphere worthy of the big trendy clubs. For a guaranteed effect and a dynamic that will certainly ignite the dance floor, always make sure to call on professionals. In short, today’s technologies and vjing video software make it possible to create incredible universes and atmospheres to decorate your events according to your themes.