Felt - Early Mornin' Tony

This video combines a lot of elements which I want to use in my music video. For a start the whole video surrounds a comic book, it involves animation with drawings, and the drawings link back to the lyrics. At the same time there is also live action footage, with both of them combined you can see its extremely effective.

This video is a montage of images which link to the song, it's about the year 1988 and shows pictures from that year. I put this video up to show the simplicity of the video, still images mixed with slight animation. I think using still images could be very effective in my video but it can't be like this video, as it get quite monotonous so would definitely have to mixed with live action footage.

P.O.S. - Purexed

This video incorporates a main idea for my video, the stop motion pictures mixed with free moving footage. I particularly like how occasionally the pictures don't necessarily fit but make an effect much like a scrap book of photos memories and places.

Eyedea and Abilities - Junk

This video incorporates a lot of what I wanted from the other videos below. For example the fast cuts with loud and in your face movements, also incorporated are figures which seem almost ghostly, a scratchy old look with the black lines and dots. I have also found that the screen with in a screen effect can be very well worked. I also think I will incorporate the flickery effect by using a strobe light.

Lucas - Lucas With The Lid Off

This is an excellent music video that aired briefly on MTV in 1994 and soon became largely forgotten. This one was filmed in B&W to produce an old-timey ambience that works very well with the ragtime sound. You should pay close attention to the continuity. The whole video was filmed with a steadycam in one continuous shot in one studio which is an unbelievably difficult task that only someone like Michel Gondry could pull off. As it was one continuous shot the singer had to run from shot to shot with out being seen inbetween.

Atmosphere - You

This is a second video from Atmosphere. This song is a lot more up beat and and the video more complex and much more interesting. The video is

mainly a performance video, Slug on stage with a crowd dancing. The interesting part of the video is the tech-deck as it makes its way around the gig

venue. This makes the video that much better as the idea is simple but with out the skill impossible to pull off.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere is an American Hip Hop group. The members are Rapper Slug (born Sean Daley, September 7, 1972) and DJ/Producer Ant (born Anthony Davis). Active in various forms since 1993, they are one of the most commercially successful and long-lived independent hip hop artists.

Atmosphere are my favorite Hip-Hop group so I have watched many videos of there songs and have nearly all of their albums so they would be a perfect choice.

This is just a simple video from Atmosphere just to show their lyrics and style. Slugs lyrics are always very well thought out and more times than not have a strong message behind them and his songs are always about real life situations rather than the common misconception that Hip-Hop is about Guns and Drugs.

New ideas

My favorite genre of music is Hip-Hop. At the start of the project I wanted to stay clear of it as I felt doing something different might stir up a myriad of individual ideas out side of my comfort zone. But since thinking that my current song wont be very interesting I've started to think that Hip-Hop could be the way to go, especially if I were to choose an upbeat song which would go well with a fast paced video and flickering cut scenes.

Thoughts on my current song

At the moment I feel my song is the perfect length but I feel the song isn't very interesting, the beat and lyrics are quite repetitive so this would effect the final outcome of my video as I don't feel I could come up with enough ideas to fill the song, therefore would be quite monotonous for the viewers.

Flying Lotus Lyrics

Lyrics:
Hey (X4)
Now I can't seem to get it
and in my mind I'm bettin
My times made up, I gotta go
and its alright if you want
to see through your tomorrow,
but right now I gotta go.


if you want to stay then you can
be here with me.
but I can't let go all this love, oh no, so easily

I said if you want to stay then you can
be here with me.
but I can't let go all this love, oh no, so easily

No I can't seem to forget
In my mind Its ready
my times made up, but I'm at home

And its alright if you want
to be who you want to be
but right now, I gotta go.

if you want to stay then you can
be here with me.
but I can't let go all this love, oh no, so easily

I said if you want to stay then you can
be here with me.
but I can't let go all this love, oh no, so easily.

If you want to go babe, you can.
but hear me out.
Oh I can't let it go so easily.
So easily
So easily

(Harmonizing)

No No No
If You want
If you want
So easily
Its alright
Believe me it's alright.

Flying Lotus- Tea Leaf Dancers

This is a possible song which I will use. This is a possible choice as the Artist isn't as well known as other Artists, the song also has lyrics which can be

lip synced.

Progress Report

So Far I have one possible choice of song, I have also got a few ideas for my video, examples of these can be found in the two videos for Jeffrey Lewis - Anxiety Attack both the official and unofficial video. The First video is very flashy and involves a strobe light there are many effects used such as a layering effect. In the second video it is all stop frame animation.

Unofficial Music video to Anxiety Attack

I have put this video on here as it is an unofficial remake of Jeffrey Lewis Anxiety Attack. The video is all stop motion concentrated around a boys head while objects move around him, for example the last the shots where a can of beer slowly fills the glass with out being touched.

Jeffrey Lewis Video

Anxiety Attack - Jeffrey Lewis


I've posted this video due to the effects used, for example the strobe light effects with the almost stop motion. The clips with the people in the lift is also very effective due to the dual imagery as if there were a ghost.