24 Hours of Happy (10AM)
Happy, 10AM. Or, alternatively, Happy and The Stalker with the Cat on his Head.
The train station was actually a very solid location for all the dancing. It had the unique quality of being indoors, but also being a place with people in the middle of the day. Up until this hour, all the indoor locations were empty, and could drag when too much time was spent there. Here, the dancers can all make great use of the train's busy schedule and interact with all the patrons. As a bonus, there's an ability to go outside and inside through out the course of the song.
This hour has the unique superlative of being the first video to feature an early-bird cameo (if one starts from 12AM): the gentlemen behind Pharrell Williams at the start of the hour is the lead dancer in the second video.
There was a lot less fading and cutting, as the camera crew merely panned up, waited for dancers to switch, and then picked it up again. The 10:16AM dancer was my favorite, but there were a lot of very good dancers sprinkled through out the video, with tons of energy.
These dancers were needed, because the hour was dragged a bit by a few odd choices in dancers who didn't seem to be into it too much. I still think it was an OK hour, even if it didn't fly by like 9AM, but I think the reason it has such a low view count on YouTube is because it still suffers "set location" syndrome. Some of the indoor locations are repeated too many times, and the best areas are rarely used to their full effect by some of the dancers. I'm wondering if maybe indoor locations are only good to use for half-hour chunks, since very few buildings can have that many unique rooms, but eh, they have an hour to fill, and they had the space.
At 10:36AM, the girl dancer passes by an information booth that is playing Despicable Me 2 on a small black-and-white TV. I don't think we've seen a reference to the movie since the minions were running at 5AM. ^_^
Per the music videos pattern, the last dancer takes us to the next location, and it seems to be a return to the streets of LA!
EDIT: Apparently, the gentleman at 10:32AM is Sérgio Mendes, and famous Brazilian artist. Neat!
The train station was actually a very solid location for all the dancing. It had the unique quality of being indoors, but also being a place with people in the middle of the day. Up until this hour, all the indoor locations were empty, and could drag when too much time was spent there. Here, the dancers can all make great use of the train's busy schedule and interact with all the patrons. As a bonus, there's an ability to go outside and inside through out the course of the song.
This hour has the unique superlative of being the first video to feature an early-bird cameo (if one starts from 12AM): the gentlemen behind Pharrell Williams at the start of the hour is the lead dancer in the second video.
There was a lot less fading and cutting, as the camera crew merely panned up, waited for dancers to switch, and then picked it up again. The 10:16AM dancer was my favorite, but there were a lot of very good dancers sprinkled through out the video, with tons of energy.
These dancers were needed, because the hour was dragged a bit by a few odd choices in dancers who didn't seem to be into it too much. I still think it was an OK hour, even if it didn't fly by like 9AM, but I think the reason it has such a low view count on YouTube is because it still suffers "set location" syndrome. Some of the indoor locations are repeated too many times, and the best areas are rarely used to their full effect by some of the dancers. I'm wondering if maybe indoor locations are only good to use for half-hour chunks, since very few buildings can have that many unique rooms, but eh, they have an hour to fill, and they had the space.
At 10:36AM, the girl dancer passes by an information booth that is playing Despicable Me 2 on a small black-and-white TV. I don't think we've seen a reference to the movie since the minions were running at 5AM. ^_^
Per the music videos pattern, the last dancer takes us to the next location, and it seems to be a return to the streets of LA!
EDIT: Apparently, the gentleman at 10:32AM is Sérgio Mendes, and famous Brazilian artist. Neat!