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In my 2nd youtube music video find I give you Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
I'm a big fan of very slow pacing in music videos. I think that MTV has ruined the medium for most directors now as it's come to be expected that there be a cut every half second. But look at this video. It's the band playing, it's a door opening and closing, and there are some color effects. Incredibly straightforward incredibly simple but still very effective. It comes off as a more theatrical work as the cuts seem to reflect how someone watching the band play live may dart their eyes from artist to artist or instrument to instrument. No one watches a fucking live show and darts their eyes around every second looking for something else. Just let the band play, let your rendering of the video be reflective on the band itself, and don't get cute. Watching this video is much more satisfying than 90% of the videos I see today.
Does the somber song have something to do with it? Sure. But I think that you could get quite interesting with metal bands having videos that are a single shot in some kids basement. It's funny, I saw the Guns and Roses video for Sweet Child of Mine and it's also fantastic. A very postmodern, reflexive look at a video. What you're seeing is a mishmash of some guy filming them while they make the video as well as what the actual video is capturing. Fuck i gotta find it now so you know what i'm talking about...Ok here we go.
Look for two successive shots about 15 seconds into the video. A cameraman is filming an cameraman filming the drummer. The cameraman filming the drummer then pulls out as the drummer hits his cymbols. You see the start of the motion and then that is followed by the shot of what the cameraman filming the drummer is recording and you flow through the motion as the song kicks in.
I think it's impossible to trick most viewers of media of the fact that there is any sort of verisimilitude or assumed reality of a film or video anymore. Everyone knows there is a process going on behind the scenes behind a film and works that embrace that postmodern realism and build upon it I feel are the most interesting and innovative works right now.
See:
Day for Night
Tristram Shandy
24 Hour Party People
Living In Oblivion
Ferris Behuler (really)
I'm a big fan of very slow pacing in music videos. I think that MTV has ruined the medium for most directors now as it's come to be expected that there be a cut every half second. But look at this video. It's the band playing, it's a door opening and closing, and there are some color effects. Incredibly straightforward incredibly simple but still very effective. It comes off as a more theatrical work as the cuts seem to reflect how someone watching the band play live may dart their eyes from artist to artist or instrument to instrument. No one watches a fucking live show and darts their eyes around every second looking for something else. Just let the band play, let your rendering of the video be reflective on the band itself, and don't get cute. Watching this video is much more satisfying than 90% of the videos I see today.
Does the somber song have something to do with it? Sure. But I think that you could get quite interesting with metal bands having videos that are a single shot in some kids basement. It's funny, I saw the Guns and Roses video for Sweet Child of Mine and it's also fantastic. A very postmodern, reflexive look at a video. What you're seeing is a mishmash of some guy filming them while they make the video as well as what the actual video is capturing. Fuck i gotta find it now so you know what i'm talking about...Ok here we go.
Look for two successive shots about 15 seconds into the video. A cameraman is filming an cameraman filming the drummer. The cameraman filming the drummer then pulls out as the drummer hits his cymbols. You see the start of the motion and then that is followed by the shot of what the cameraman filming the drummer is recording and you flow through the motion as the song kicks in.
I think it's impossible to trick most viewers of media of the fact that there is any sort of verisimilitude or assumed reality of a film or video anymore. Everyone knows there is a process going on behind the scenes behind a film and works that embrace that postmodern realism and build upon it I feel are the most interesting and innovative works right now.
See:
Day for Night
Tristram Shandy
24 Hour Party People
Living In Oblivion
Ferris Behuler (really)