Beautiful new video for Jack Peñate’s new single Tonight’s Today, directed by Alma Har’el. Oh man, the dayshot/nightshot trick is something I wanted to do but the strobelight makes it even more cool. Fantastic editing, all around great video!
Download the MOV here. Thanks for the heads up Anne!
I am proud to finally announce Booooooom Project #8 and it is a big one. I had been dropping little hints on Facebook and Twitter and now I can tell you what it is!
We are officially producing a music video for Denmark’s Choir of Young Believers!!! If you are up on music blogs then you already know, but in case you don’t Choir of Young Believers is orchestral pop music at its best! The group is essentially one guy, Jannis Noya Makrigiannis, although you may see as many as eight people on stage at a show. I think if you take one listen to the song Action/Reaction and you’ll see why I am so excited.
The main sources of inspiration for this project are Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Cheated Hearts video and Michel Gondry’s book, You’ll Like This Film Because You’re In It.
All of the content will be supplied by you! Performing the song! Playing instruments (real or fake)! Singing! Dancing! Jumping! Lip-syncing! Whatever the song inspires you to do! Try to capture the emotion of the song!
1. Get the song here: Action/Reaction.mp3 (no longer available). Turn your stereo up to 11 and become one with the music.
2. Get a video camera and some friends together and go wild! We are looking for raw footage, so don’t worry about editing what you shoot. Just concentrate on getting the shots!
3. All of the submitted content will be edited into one video, so be creative! Feel free to film multiple versions!
4. Upload your footage to Youtube or Vimeo and email the link!
5. If you are shooting NTSC (North Americans) you may also submit your footage on miniDV, data CD, or data DVD by mailing it to:
8811 Roselea Place
Richmond BC
V7A2K5
CANADA
6. Understand that by submitting your footage you are giving us permission to use your images in the video.
7. Submissions are due by July 7th 2009.
A-Z Idea Checklist – Feel free to use all or none of these ideas:
a) interpretive dance (i hope some of you go this direction)
b) costumes (elaborate or subtle)
c) sunrise, sunset
d) face paint
e) an open field (corn or otherwise)
f) kites
g) find all the instruments and perform the song correctly
h) fake everything
i) cinéma vérité (move the camera! go wild!)
j) build elaborate sets (or film it all under a blanket on your bed)
k) robots
l) literal or magical
m) perform on a rooftop (a building not a car… well its up to you)
n) paper mache
o) temporary tattoos
p) animals
q) cardboard and duct tape
r) mirrors
s) sunglasses
t) in the mall food court
u) underwater?
v) beautiful people or ugly people
w) smoke machine
x) flashlights
y) lens flares
z) mustaches
I am looking forward to seeing your footage!
PS – here’s the LYRICS:
action/reaction
im spending my time/ walking spirals in line/ did i ever honestly believe/ a change of mind/ and then a change of position/ only action no reaction no/ this time is mine together we cant spend it anyway/ nothing is gonna change nothing is ever gonna change
and im a trigger/ your my gun/dont you wanna come/ dont you taste the times that come/ back and forth in one/ dont you wanna come/ if I could take you to a better place
she is a monument/ and everyone is talking/ like a vision its all crystal clear/ a change of mind and then a change of position did we ever honestly believe/ watching dead bodies and bombs falling from the sky/ nothing´s gonna change nothing is ever gonna change
and im a trigger/ your my gun/dont you wanna come/ dont you taste the times that come/ back and forth in one/
I am slippin! I missed posting this fantastic video for Depeche Mode’s Wrong. Helmed by one of my favourite directors, Patrick Daughters, this one reminds me a lot of David Fincher. Thanks for the heads up Dean!
Awesome new video for Mims’ Move, directed by Keith Schofield (whose work you should be quite familiar with by now).
Great new video for Peter Bjorn & John’s Nothing To Worry About, directed by Andreas and Filip Nilsson. The Japanese take rockabilly to the next level.
Kris Moyes is quickly becoming one of the most exciting music video directors to come along in awhile. While none of his videos made it on my Best of 2008 list, they all seemed to have at least one section that got me hitting rewind over and over to analyze what he’d done. Head over to his site to get inspired! Make sure you watch his video for Beck, and his commercial for Cadbury is great too.
New video for Bloc Party’s One Month Off, directed by D.A.D.D.Y. Great song, but I’d like to know what you think of the video. Fairy tales originally animated by Ray Harryhausen get set on fire and blown up. Download the quicktime here or watch the youtube.
In a lot of ways this video is just a less successful version of this hilarious clip of Patrick Duffy destroying every on the internet…
Seattle-based Matt Daniels (thinklab) directed a gorgeous new music video for Damien Jurado’s song, Caskets. I haven’t been too impressed with the bulk of music videos I’ve seen lately but Matt Daniels’ cinematography alone is worth the 1.5 seconds it will take to move your mouse-hand slightly downwards to click the play button.
My pal Brian over at Shotsringout has a great little interview with Daniels as well.
