Applying Yoga
Music Video Production
Read the steps dedicated to Contemplation, Prayer Space, Manifestation Goals.
Early Manifestation Goals
Prayer Space
Gathering ideas about themes and experiences. Clarifying information in relation to the narrative (intention). Directing attention to project process through Crowdsourcing.
Pre-Production Stages
Spiritual Practice
The Mood Board process is curated inspiration for each project, in which those wishing to be a part of the Music Video production, may initially take part in developing the Storyboard.
The Film Crew meets and plans every detail. The Director places essential materials into a Portfolio. Send out a Call Sheet 24hr before production.
Production
Accomplish Goals
Director of Cinematography, and 1AD work with Film Crew, who apply the Shot List, etc., ensure every frame captures the essence of the music, accounting for climate and daylight.
Recording the performances, actions, and transitions of the song in relation to the musician(s), including B-roll. Organize footage and audio.
Post Production
Involution and Network
Record reflective interview and take footage for Music Video to the editing lab. Connect the node to the network. Post Production includes video editing, and screening within Crowdsource.
Yoga Sutras
of Patañjali
Patañjali divided his Yoga Sutras into four portions
(Sanskrit: Pada), as follows:
(1) Samadhi Pada contemplation
(2) Sadhana Pada practice
(3) Vibhuti Pada accomplishments
(4) Kaivalya Pada absoluteness
Portion vis-à-vis Picture
Samadhi Pada
reaching a state of direct and reliable perception, where "the seer" abides in itself
Motion Picture
centering in early manifestation goals for motion picture
Sadhana Pada
aiming at preparing and calming the mind
Motion Picture
organizing in pre-production stages of motion picture
Vibhuti Pada
balancing the elements
Motion Picture
uniting the five elements in music video production
Kaivalya Pada
the process of liberation
Motion Picture
realizing the reality of "the seer"
Yoga Philosophy of Production
Early Manifestation Goals
Contemplation
Before entering pre-production stages
Hold space for the sensation of the production
Pre-Production Stages
Practice
Getting in touch with imagination
Imputing intuition into a portfolio
Production
Accomplishments
Creating a space, establishing set and setting
Recording the scenes of story or narrative
Post Production
Absoluteness
Interview as a recorded reflection of the production
Post production video editing and networking
draw from three distinct spheres
from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE
(1) one or more Samkhya traditions
(2) one or more Buddhist traditions
(3) an emerging philosophical Yoga tradition that is compiling various older ascetic and religious strands of speculation
Consciousness as Pulsation
concentration / regulation
applied in the sphere of music (to derive its usefulness)
- pin-pointing, emphasizing, holding space for certain themes, events, or experiences for both inspiration and discovering areas within consciousness to explore and expand upon (whether for self or collective) at first
02 Dhyāna
meditation / contemplation
applied in the sphere of music (to derive its usefulness)
- realizing, witnessing, understanding, establishing certain patterns and cycles to work around and work through or work upon and work with to create a cohesion between audio and video for motion picture
Dhyāna is the seventh limb of eight elucidated by Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga or Raja Yoga.
A steady, continuous flow of attention directed towards the same point or region.
03 Samādhi
applied in the sphere of music (to derive its usefulness)
- listening, accepting, releasing, absolving into the sound, the experience, the memory, the place, the area of inspiration, such as the muse for creation, which occurs when one is open for transformation
04 Saṃyama
applied in the sphere of music (to derive its usefulness)
- coming to fruition, feeling the wholesome nature of creation, beyond the accomplishment of putting the connections together, finding how all is related and meaningful, and why the creation came to existence
Production as Transformation
i. reliable perception
pramāṇa (correct means of accurate knowledge and to truths)
Six most widely recognized pramanas:
Pratyakṣa (evidence/perception)
Anumāna (inference)
Upamāna (comparison and analogy)
Arthāpatti (postulation, derivation from circumstances)
Anupalabdhi (non-perception, negative/cognitive proof)
Śabda (word, testimony of past or present reliable experts)
applied in motion picture production
- considering variant perspectives to produce the vision
pramāṇa (प्रमाण) is where "the seer" or puruṣa (pure consciousness, the Self) abides in itself
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
One of the core concepts in Indian epistemology, pramanas are one or more reliable and valid means by which human beings gain accurate, true knowledge. The focus of pramana is how correct knowledge can be acquired, how one knows, how one does not know, and to what extent knowledge pertinent about someone or something can be acquired.
viveka (insight, discriminative knowledge, judgement)
In Buddhist literature, the term viveka is used in the sense of separation and is classified into three kinds: bodily seclusion (kāya-viveka), mental purification (citta-viveka), and final liberation (avadhi-viveka). In Yoga philosophy, it is sometimes described as the shifting of awareness from the object of perception to the power of perception itself (puruṣa).
applied in motion picture production
- signifying the purpose and meaning of the production
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
In the context of Sāṅkhya and Yoga philosophy, a primary meaning of viveka is the discrimination or knowing the distinction between prakṛti (material nature) and puruṣa (Self or pure consciousness).
iii. interdependent being
tattva (element, sense, state, relationality, reality)
The Essences, the five elements, the senses of knowledge and action too came into being then. All these principles originating from Prakṛti are insentient, but not the Puruṣa.
applied in motion picture production
- producing through the interconnectedness of creation and narrative of the motion picture
tattva (तत्त्व) refers to a “cosmic principle,” where there are constituents of prakṛti (material nature)
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
kaivalya (isolation, distinction, stability)
That means the isolated element (puruṣa) is distinct from the three guṇas—sattva, rajas, and tamas.
applied in motion picture production
- reflecting on the influence and experience of the production by the individual, pair, or group
