which technique is this on brilliant music video

[Nick Heady]

Wow that is pretty neat! I’m assuming you’re talking about all of the physical structures and artwork that gets resized. Assuming all of that stuff was in the shot originally, the editors probably need to expand the objects to make them bigger, kind of like you could do with the clone tool in Photoshop.

I’m not too savvy with visual effects and graphics but that’s just my first thoughts.

[Tero Ahlfors]

Yep. It just manipulation of the elements in the picture. They also used selective stabilization to keep the head of the singer in place while the background moves.

[Kevin Reiner]

Looks like a lot of image stabilization tricks (stabilize to performer’s head and then jump zooms). And then the image manipulation of certain object probably entailed multiple effects. Perhaps liquify for many. A lot of masking and resizing to (the tunnel shot). Not just one effect throughout though.