KANE: A Story Recorded opens a vault of memories, filmed and felt over decades. The documentary peels back the layers of a band that defined an era in Dutch rock, revealing the human story behind the spotlight. A production filled with emotion, ambition, loss, friendship and the kind of honesty that only comes with time.
Our role was to create the graphic and motion design for this series, with the main focus on capturing the raw, analog feel and letting the viewer step into the memories.
The visuals bridge past and present, giving static moments a living depth that draws you in instead of letting you look from afar. It’s about feeling the weight of a concert crowd, the quiet of a living room, the reality of a personal loss.
Turning Still Frames Into Living Memories
We received a collection of scanned analog photos, untouched fragments of real moments. The images were dissected in Photoshop, separating people, places, and light into layers. Using generative fill, the gaps were rebuilt for motion. In After Effects, those layers were placed in 3D space to create depth and perspective. Subtle camera movement and color work gave each shot emotional weight, turning flat photos into dimensional glimpses of time, intimate, quiet, and real.
Animating Headlines to Mirror the Highs, Lows, and Honest Moments of Kane
We used the same layered technique to bring news articles into motion. Headlines became part of the scene, floating around the photos in space. Moments of success and struggle were treated with the same respect.
No dramatization, just truth told visually. The goal was to let the story speak, not to decorate it. To show both applause and aftermath in equal balance.
Shifting Focus to Highlight Emotion, Presence, and Memory
Visualizing Words Through Motion.
the Documentary’s Raw Honesty.
A Story Recorded Became the Spark That Reunited and Reenergized Kane
Credits
Producent
Carlo van Lienden
Productie Manager
Danielle Bouwmeester
Redactie
Claudia Blokland
