Blog Director’s breakdown · 2 November 2025

Slavic Balagan — “Purtata”: a director’s breakdown

Complete creative freedom, one continuous shot, an AI-built Barcelona — by Oleg Pylypenko.

Case film

The official music video, on Slavic Balagan’s YouTube channel.

When I got a call from Oleksii Makhurenko and Oleksii Potapenko — the artist himself, now performing under the new project Slavic Balagan — I instantly knew this would be something special.

They gave me complete creative freedom, and that was the spark that started it all.

I played the song “Purtata”, closed my eyes — and saw the images unfold.

Barcelona, the sea, a festival, skyscrapers, clouds of pink light.

In my head, a story was born — one that I decided to tell in a single continuous shot, without a single cut.

The viewer had to feel as if they were on a visual roller coaster, where the camera never stops for a second and constantly moves through shifting spaces.

Barcelona redrawn as a pink-lit dream — a frame from the «Purtata» music video — Barcelona, redrawn: the city as a pink-lit dream.

Reality and surrealism — like a CGI dream where the impossible feels natural.

I was inspired, among other things, by Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication, which back in the 2000s predicted the kind of digital aesthetics we now see in the AI era.

I wanted to create a psychedelic yet uplifting trip, where Potap finds himself in Barcelona, living through an entire story — from his arrival in the city to performing on a massive festival stage and watching the sunrise near Sagrada Família.

A surreal festival stage rising out of the water — a frame from the «Purtata» music video — The festival, built from nothing: a stage that could not exist.

The process

AI was at the heart of this process

The entire video is an AI project.

I created an avatar of the artist based on his photos and then built the entire story frame by frame using Midjourney and a keyframe-based video generator.

Each scene was written, visualized, and animated — with transitions, camera motion, and rhythm worthy of classic film direction.

The hardest part was maintaining this “continuous flight” without a single cut — but when the first test scenes came to life, I knew: “This is it.”

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The stack

Built like a film, run on AI

From the brief to the final render, «Purtata» ran a full AI-production cycle. Most of the time went not into generating frames, but into directing the drama — and the transitions between the scenes.

ChatGPT: Creative development — the director’s concept, the dramaturgy, the script structure and the system of transitions between scenes.
AI character creation: A digital model of the artist, built from his own photos, to keep him recognisable through every scene.
Midjourney: Every keyframe and the single visual language — the moodboard, the scenes, the characters and the environments.
Keyframe-based AI video generation: Animating each scene between keyframes while holding the director’s camera motion.
Final Cut Pro X: The edit — timing, music sync and the final assembly into one continuous, unbroken flow.

Built with

ChatGPT Midjourney Keyframe video AI avatar Final Cut Pro X One continuous shot Barcelona ChatGPT Midjourney Keyframe video AI avatar Final Cut Pro X One continuous shot Barcelona

The core message of the video is to never be afraid to experiment.

If you have purpose, faith, and consistency, you’ll reach your goal — even if the path looks insane.

A world without boundaries

Being a director in the AI era is like stepping into a world without boundaries.

Technology doesn’t replace the human — it extends them.

AI doesn’t tell stories; the director does, through vision and intention.

But now we have tools that can instantly realize what used to take months of production.

I’m genuinely happy to live in a time where imagination itself has become a production force.

Frames from the film

A mirror-ball dinosaur towering over the crowd — a frame from the «Purtata» music video

Two dancers in mirror-ball masks — a frame from the «Purtata» music video

An abstract chrome transition through the city — a frame from the «Purtata» music video

Hidden references

And perhaps the warmest part of the project for me is a personal touch I left in the video.

Making of

I wanted to thank my girlfriend for inspiring me — so I did it the director’s way: by integrating her into two scenes.
She appears wearing VR glasses, then rides a scooter through the streets of Barcelona, and finally reappears as a DJ.

Two little moments of love inside a whirlwind of visuals.

FAQ

Good questions

What is «Purtata»?

The official music video for Slavic Balagan — Oleksii Potapenko’s new project — directed by Oleg Pylypenko with complete creative freedom.

Why one continuous shot?

The viewer had to feel like they were on a visual roller coaster — the camera never stops and keeps moving through shifting spaces, without a single cut.

Where is it set?

In a redrawn, AI-built Barcelona — the sea, a festival, skyscrapers and clouds of pink light: a CGI dream where the impossible feels natural.

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