Carnegie Hall: Opening Night
130 years of performance, brought together for an empty hall.
For Carnegie Hall’s first virtual opening-night gala, 59 Studio was asked to create a title sequence celebrating the venue’s history while setting an upbeat tone for an audience watching from around the world.
As Senior Video Designer, I developed and animated the sequence, combining archive photography, concert ephemera, typography and footage of the empty hall into a fast-moving collage spanning generations of performance.
Role
Senior Video Designer
Created at
59 Studio
Format
Opening Title Sequence
Year
2020
130 years in motion
The sequence began inside an empty Carnegie Hall, with fragments of past performances appearing as if projected back into the space.
From there, it broke into a more kinetic visual language: archive photographs, programmes, typography and different eras overlapping into one continuous composition.
The approach became deliberately loose and layered, allowing the history to feel alive rather than simply chronological.
Project credits
Senior Video Designer: Max Italiaander at 59 Studio
Director: Leo Warner
Designer: Matthew Taylor
Producer: Rebecca Collis
Commissioned by Snap Snap Productions LLC for Carnegie Hall.
Sequence imagery courtesy of 59 Studio.