Artist: Echo Helstrom
Track: Hungry Ghost
Director: Kurt Nishimura
I recently did a series of guest blog posts for a brilliant VidCast called $99 Music Videos. It's a brilliant concept for a show where a band and a director are put together and asked to make a video in one day for $99. It sounds crazy, but the high quality of the final videos unquestionably proves my primary motivation for making this show. You don't need a huge budget to make a brilliant video. All you need is a great idea.
This weeks video was the first blog I posted and shows the $99 ethos perfectly.
Kurt Nishimura directed this video for Portland band Echo Helstrom that takes the old concept of stop-motion animating a real person and gives it a haunting feel. The band hardly appears in the video as a ballet dancer takes to a darkened room with the band only sometimes appearing in the mirrors at the back of the studio. Great stuff which fits the dramatic style of the music perfectly.
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See you next week for another great music video.
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
WMVP020 - Fake It by Brad Sucks
Artist: Brad Sucks
Track: Fake It
Director: Allen Henderson
A great video this week that tries to do something very original. It doesn't quite come off, but the video succeeds in doing something equally as good.
Brad Sucks from Canada had the idea to try and create the most cliched music video ever, so he asked his fans to create videos of themselves doing cliched things and then he and his editor, Allen Henderson, would put them together to create a super-cliched video.
It's a brilliant idea, but I personally don't think it's worked very well. The problem is that the user submitted videos aren't that cliched. The final video works incredibly well, but not in the way it was originally intended. I am a fan of the user submitted sub-genre of music videos (See Episode 5) and this is a perfect example. All too often the fans are doing exactly the same thing and in this example they all have very different ideas. How often do you have fire juggling and Batman in the same video?
You can subscribe to the podcast on the right or directly download the file by clicking the post title.
See you next week for another great music video.
Track: Fake It
Director: Allen Henderson
A great video this week that tries to do something very original. It doesn't quite come off, but the video succeeds in doing something equally as good.
Brad Sucks from Canada had the idea to try and create the most cliched music video ever, so he asked his fans to create videos of themselves doing cliched things and then he and his editor, Allen Henderson, would put them together to create a super-cliched video.
It's a brilliant idea, but I personally don't think it's worked very well. The problem is that the user submitted videos aren't that cliched. The final video works incredibly well, but not in the way it was originally intended. I am a fan of the user submitted sub-genre of music videos (See Episode 5) and this is a perfect example. All too often the fans are doing exactly the same thing and in this example they all have very different ideas. How often do you have fire juggling and Batman in the same video?
You can subscribe to the podcast on the right or directly download the file by clicking the post title.
See you next week for another great music video.
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009
WMVP019 - You Walk on Empty Streets Now (Part II) by 2-L8
Artist: 2-L8
Track: You Walk On Empty Streets Now (Part II)
Director: Vassilis Gogtzilas
Another great example of green-screen video making this week. 2-L8 are an odd group from Salonika in Greece who dress in austere clown make up for their performances. Greek comic book artist and designer Vassilis Gogtzilas has taken this fact and also the fact that the bands latest album is entitled He & She to provide inspiration for this video. It apparently took about 18 months to finish, which shows dedication as well as talent.
A male and female clown enter an animated stage and start having a kind of magical battle in a kind of mimed way, which fits the history of the band and also the green-screened surroundings. The video is full of arresting images and ideas and is a perfect introduction to the crazy world of 2-L8.
You can subscribe to the podcast on the right or directly download the file by clicking the post title.
See you next week for another great music video.
Track: You Walk On Empty Streets Now (Part II)
Director: Vassilis Gogtzilas
Another great example of green-screen video making this week. 2-L8 are an odd group from Salonika in Greece who dress in austere clown make up for their performances. Greek comic book artist and designer Vassilis Gogtzilas has taken this fact and also the fact that the bands latest album is entitled He & She to provide inspiration for this video. It apparently took about 18 months to finish, which shows dedication as well as talent.
A male and female clown enter an animated stage and start having a kind of magical battle in a kind of mimed way, which fits the history of the band and also the green-screened surroundings. The video is full of arresting images and ideas and is a perfect introduction to the crazy world of 2-L8.
You can subscribe to the podcast on the right or directly download the file by clicking the post title.
See you next week for another great music video.
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
WMVP018 - In The Ocean by Stars & Sons
Artist: Stars & Sons
Track: In The Ocean
Director: Matt Anstee (Animations by Nick Willis)
When you have to provide a video for a track called 'In The Ocean' the temptaion to just go for simple water themed visuals must be overwhelming. Don't get me wrong, this video for Brighton band Stars & Sons features a segment shot on a beach and a segment shot on an animated ocean floor, but the video as a whole is much deeper than that.
Matt Anstee has provided an interesting pursuit style video where the chasers all have the faces of the lead singer. It's kind of like a Philip K. Dick film played for laughs. Very fun and almost as impressive for the video that didn't get made as the one that did.
In a case of getting good value for money, during the filming of this video they found time to shoot another video for a Stars & Sons track. If It's Good For Me is just a case of a group of friends messing around in their garden with some toy instruments and hula hoops. Great piece of fun music video making.
You can subscribe to the podcast on the right or directly download the file by clicking the post title.
See you next week for another great music video.
Track: In The Ocean
Director: Matt Anstee (Animations by Nick Willis)
When you have to provide a video for a track called 'In The Ocean' the temptaion to just go for simple water themed visuals must be overwhelming. Don't get me wrong, this video for Brighton band Stars & Sons features a segment shot on a beach and a segment shot on an animated ocean floor, but the video as a whole is much deeper than that.
Matt Anstee has provided an interesting pursuit style video where the chasers all have the faces of the lead singer. It's kind of like a Philip K. Dick film played for laughs. Very fun and almost as impressive for the video that didn't get made as the one that did.
In a case of getting good value for money, during the filming of this video they found time to shoot another video for a Stars & Sons track. If It's Good For Me is just a case of a group of friends messing around in their garden with some toy instruments and hula hoops. Great piece of fun music video making.
You can subscribe to the podcast on the right or directly download the file by clicking the post title.
See you next week for another great music video.
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