I used to be something of a music video fanatic — it’s fun to see the small-scale testbed for special effects that later show up in movies. Unfortunately with the collapse of the music video industry (not to mention the larger music industry), it’s been a while since anything interesting has come along.
A couple days ago, however, director Keith Schoderfield put out a new music video for mediocre rapper Mims. The song won’t win any awards for originality, but the video takes a couple cool effects — slow motion breakdancers, looping back and forth — and runs with them. Simple, but a lot of fun. Best is the slit scan warping technique that comes in about halfway through. Good beat, too.
More creativity from the same mind comes via the video for “Knights” by Minus the Bear. It looks like the old mirrored image trick until you start to notice some things lacking perfect symmetry. Then one or two items cross the border from one side of the screen to the other. It all flies by at such a pace your brain has a hard time keeping up. It’s good visual trickery in the vein of Michel Gondry.
One Comment
Eppu
Posted 20 Feb, 2009 at 1:20 amPermalink
Yooooooooooooooo,
Nice Website Nigel! Very fresh and cool. Super stylish. Very Nigel in other words. Plus the Jeru quote at the top is a good touch! I checked out those videos. Youre right, the first one is a terrible song but the video is pretty cool. Even cooler is the second video. Again, musically not my cup of tea but its got some nice little “tricketry”, as you put it. Ill have to study it some more to figure out a few things before I make a fool of myself by admitting I dont get it.
Im off to the cottage, but nice work!
Eppu