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We were in charge of the direction and CG moving images for a web video produced by Nissan Motor to celebrate a second consecutive championship in the 2023 SUPER GT series, Japan’s premier touring car racing series. In 2022, in both the GT500 and GT300 classes of Japan’s highest-level touring car racing series, the SUPER GT, “TEAM IMPUL” and “KONDO RACING,” both supported by Nissan Motor and Nissan Motorsport & Customizing, each won the series championship. To commemorate a possible second straight title in 2023 as well, Jazztronik (Ryota Nozaki) arranged Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 9,” a year-end tradition, using actual engine sounds from the GT Series, pit sounds, crowd cheers, and more. We hope you enjoy this video, which is a fitting way to close out 2022. To make this unusual collaboration even more enjoyable, we used a variety of techniques, such as switching shots in rhythm with the dynamic jazz arrangement and placing the carefully integrated motorsport sounds on screen so they could be visually perceived.