The project inverts the concert-film format. Rather than documenting an existing show, every element — staging, choreography, lighting, camera positions, transitions — was designed from the ground up around the camera, which in VR is the audience's point of view. The setting is Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth, the trademarked World's Largest Honky Tonk, with a bull-riding arena inside the building. The visual language draws on cinema, honky-tonk culture, and magical realism, with lighting states by André Petrus built for the headset rather than the room.
META QUEST
ROLE CREATIVE DIRECTOR
STUDIO UNTOLD STUDIOS
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ROCHELLE PALMER
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IONA GOULDER
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER RAJ KAPOOR
EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR PHIL LEE
HEAD OF PRODUCTION ANNIE AYRES
DIRECTOR ROHAN BLAIR-MANGAT
CREATIVE DIRECTOR SAM CANNON
HEAD OF PRODUCTION TESSA WOOD
PRODUCER GEM SOULEYMAN
PRODUCER JORDAN VERNES
DIRECTOR JEFF COBB
PRODUCER SARAH ATHAS
POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR JOE RICE
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY JASMINE SAFAEIAN
MONKS
DIRECTOR SARAH CANNON
PRODUCER ZACHARY PETERSON
LINE PRODUCER ANDREW ORR
PRODUCTION MANAGER NATHAN ISRAEL
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY ALAN BUCARIA
ENGINEERS DEVIN BLOCK CHASE WEBB
CAMERA OPERATOR DOUG PRICE
1ST AC MARCUS JOHANNES
1ST AC PATRICK MALLEY
DIGITAL IMAGING TECHNICIAN STEVE FREEBAIRN
SOUND ERIC SCHILLING
7 CINEMATICS
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER VINCENT ADAM PAUL
PRODUCER ADRIAN WESTENDORFF
PRODUCER JASON LEWIS
PRODUCER MARK ZENOW
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY BENJAMIN WALTER
PRODUCER LARS LARSEN
STEADICAM ROB OCHTERA
CAMERA OPERATOR JACK OCHTERA
CAMERA OPERATOR KYLE THOMAS
TECHNICIAN CHRISTIAN CHAMBERLAIN
GRIP JEFFREY C. HOPKINS
ENGINEER JOHNNY CUNNINGHAM
ENGINEER TERRY SMITH
THE SAW
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER KRYSTLE TESOREIRO
EDITOR BILL DERONDE
EDITOR TIMOTHY SCHULTZ
COLOUR GRADING CARLOS VERDUGO
ONLINE EDITOR RANDY MAGALSKI
MUSIC / SOUND BRIAN RIORDAN
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ERICA POTTER
MUSIC SUPERVISOR JOE RICE