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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Lunchbox on 06 Jul 2007, 23:37
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Matt and I were watching music videos today, and getting very frustrated that these days nobody (at least nobody in the top 40 on Channel V) has any good,fun, or original ideas for their music videos - it's all bands in white suits standing around singing with winces on their faces, or the solo lady singer walking through waves in a long dress.
If you had to direct a music video, what sort of song would it be, and what would your video be like?
My first idea was a video for a computery Daft-Punk type thing, and it would involve people dressed in full-body foam costumes like this:
(http://vanessabertozzi.com/cosplay/images/portrait_van_otaku_w.jpg)
And playing at a water park.
Although it's not totally original I think it is a completely awesome idea.
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AH video clips. here is a short list i have going
- There is a giant rock across from my house. i'd love to set up there, put a camera on my balcony and get a shot from across the water of just playing live
- a split screen of the band playing in an empty hall, camera on the door, and a camera walking down the street. the cameras intersect and thousands of people pour into the hall
- two words: McDonalds Playland
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Music videos are stupid. I much prefer to just turn on the visualizer thingy while playing songs on iTunes. Then the visuals are just ambient background and you pay attention to the sound, the way it should be.
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3 minutes of a tired man eating cereal.
From a bowl.
Possibly milk involved.
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Something that fits the music.
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(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c213/hey_there_fatty/MusicVideo.gif)
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(http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D11142002)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tZO94Mhfzk
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Yeah we had to produce a music video in my Video Production and Aesthetics class. I do believe my teacher would have punched me in the face five times and then menstruated in my mouth if I would've turned in a video like that to her. Actually no, scratch that, she would probably just shoot me and dump my body in a river in some god forsaken place like Cherynoble or Alaska.
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I have often pondered this very issue. But with a degree of seriousness given that I am in a band. So far my best idea is to have the band playing in a small room filled with dilapidated (spelling?) Victorian/Edwardian furniture in a relatively sepia tone. There would also be corpses of people in formal dress arranged throughout the room, as if they are still doing stuff.
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I hate videos that are basically of the band playing but dressed up as an idea.
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Yeah we had to produce a music video in my Video Production and Aesthetics class. I do believe my teacher would have punched me in the face five times and then menstruated in my mouth if I would've turned in a video like that to her. Actually no, scratch that, she would probably just shoot me and dump my body in a river in some god forsaken place like Cherynoble or Alaska.
I really don't know what youre talking about. That has to be my favorite music video ever.
I am totally serious.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tZO94Mhfzk
That is absolute genius.
This is what music videos are all about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WW8flwpH-Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WW8flwpH-Q)
christopher walken dancing.
really well
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That's my favourite music video of all time.
Edit: Actually, it's my second favourite video this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS69fuCOhTM) is my favourite.
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i love Ok Go!'s music video with the treadmills.
also there is this one amazing music video with a guy dressed up as pacman running around a city being chased by other guys dressed up as ghosts but i don't remember who did it.
there are lots of cool music videos out there, i'm sure, but they are just not on vh1.
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also there is this one amazing music video with a guy dressed up as pacman running around a city being chased by other guys dressed up as ghosts but i don't remember who did it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMtLBXlMZ-s (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMtLBXlMZ-s)
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Some awesome music videos I like that would surely influence any music videos I made (Some of these are NSFW!):
The Legendary Pink Dots - Flesh Parade (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4YmYYunrxM)
Laibach - Life is Life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvRhOpqZO7I)
Coil - The Dark Age of Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3aGTYbkxjs)
Burzum - Dunkelheit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luFCBdS5PAs)
Agalloch - Not Unlike the Waves (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYMaIzFq1Iw)
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk30a0qsVIk)
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows - The Goat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=287kBg-qEVU)
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYn5hxeFt10)
Bathory - One Rode to Asa Bay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDpc-831GPs)
Type O Negative - Black #1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aAJ2KV8F_M)
Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7QPBzAJ_io)
Immortal - Blashryk Mighty Ravendark (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aZcgMmxHxw)
Amorphis - Black Winter Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J59IQYa8bis)
Satyricon - Mother North (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64ISWrBV34Y)
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Videos I've enjoyed recently include:
Streets of Your Town by the Go-Betweens (Cheesy but oh so good)
Remember Me by British Sea Power (Singing war memorials - always classy)
Saturday Looks Bad To Me by Oppenheimer
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You guys are really bad at the whole
If you had to direct a music video, what sort of song would it be, and what would your video be like?
thing.
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We're pretty awful I know.
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I really am terrible. I just came here to plug 'Interstella 5555.' Possibly the greatest music video ever created.
(http://www.oomu.org/fichiers/harder2.jpg)