Archive for the 'Music Videos' Category

Music Video Review:
Sarajevo 12/24 - Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Song: Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24
Artist: The Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Director: Paul O’Neil
Year: 1996
With the holiday season right around the corner, this music video seemed very appropriate. Besides being the best holiday song ever, this video isn’t bad. It has a very traditional look and feel that reminds me of children’s christmas books or the Polar Express. [...]

Music Video Review:
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside

Song: Otherside
Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Director: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
Year: 2000
Again, the directing team of Dayton & Faris produce a video which takes a contemporary song and puts it in a visual style of classic film. They paid tribute to Melies in Tonight, Tonight and here they pay tribute to early German expressionist films, [...]

Music Video Review:
The Gun Club - Sex Beat

Song: Sex Beat
Artist: The Gun Club
Director: N/A
Year: ?
Editor: ?
I came across this video by chance, in case you didn’t notice it is actually just a great big editing session showing dancing scenes from some classic movies. While I don’t think it is anything special, I do love trivia games so here we go, in order:

Music Video Review:
Justin Timberlake - My Love

Song: My Love
Artist: Justin Timberlake (ft. T.I. & Timbaland)
Director: Paul Hunter
Year: 2006
Acclaimed music video director Paul Hunter directed this chart topping Justin Timberlake song, and while normally cookie cutter pop songs produce cookie cutter videos, I think this video has some merit. Either that, or I am a total sucker for black and white with [...]

Music Video Review:
Incubus - Dig (Part 2)

Yesterday I started a post critiquing the Dig music video contest. That post is required reading to this one.
Lets get started where we left off!
Video 3:
Director/Editor: Matt Ryan
DEPV: $150 (I’m guessing the actors aren’t paid.)
Wide screen is always classy. But besides that, this is a well executed video. Surprisingly, I really like the way [...]

Music Video Review:
Incubus - Dig (Part 1)

Last week while I was trying to find information on the video for the song Drive, I came across the fact that at the beginning of this year, Incubus held a contest for the video to their song Dig. They gave out excellent multi-camera green screen footage of the band performing the song and let [...]