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, [...]
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:
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Song: Drive
Artists: Incubus
Director: Phil Harder
Year: 2001
This is one of my favorite music videos. Based on “Drawing Hands” by M.C. Escher, the concept of animations drawing themselves is fantastic, and very well executed here. All the art in the video is actually done by Brandon Boyd, the singer of Incubus, and Jose Pasillas the drummer. They [...]
