Nadia and I shot this video for the lovely guys in Two Hours Traffic for the song “Amour Than Amis”, which just received its exclusive online launch on Artist Direct and has since also been featured on Exclaim. Look out for it on MuchMusic soon.
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Reblogged from SIX NINE THREE:
Armed with X-acto knives and scissors, this epic feat of a live-action-turned-animated video was carefully hand-constructed by us and our team of supremely talented and fastidious collage artists. Produced by Peter and Josh at Vulture Culture Films, the video was shot over two days at Pie in the Sky studios and on location in the west end of Toronto.
I'm pleased to introduce our newest creation, a handmade paper cut out live-action-turned-stop-motion music video for Arkells. It's true what the above blog post tells you - Nadia and I shot the video live action, exported an image sequence, printed 2465 frames of video on paper, and had select portions cut out of each shot. Then we played with paper backgrounds, photographed each collage, threw those photographs back into FCP and there you have it... Arkells are on paper, literally, for your viewing enjoyment.
Special thanks to gaffer Dan Whitton who helped me achieve just the right amount of separation and depth in our lighting to aid in our creative cutting process, and to Steadicam operator Brad Hruboska - we absolutely love the effect of those fluid camera moves in stop motion, and the way they helped us play with scale in this paper world.
Here are some photos of our pitch and process - much of the look of the photography was influenced by Barry Feinstein's shots of Bob Dylan in the 1960s (seen below, with our collage technique applied):
"On Paper" is now in heavy rotation on MuchMusic, MuchMoreMusic and MuchLoud.
American friends, you can click here to read a nice write-up about the video and see the US release on Pure Volume or watch the hi-res version on Vimeo.
Good news! Our KISS CAM video is up for a CBC Radio 3 Award!
THANKS, CBC!
Arkells talked to us about doing a music video for a new one off of their upcoming album, Michigan Left. Citing our use of text in past work and our documentary aesthetic leanings, the band entrusted us with their vision for KISS CAM… and here it is:
A huge thank you must go out to all of the fans who became a part of this project, and to all of the participants who enthusiastically looked into our cameras for Kiss Cam.
Nadia and I created this behind the scenes documentary on the set of our buddy Jared Raab’s innovative new music video for Arkells’ WHISTLEBLOWER. Spinner launched the doc yesterday – click on the picture to see how Jared’s holographic masterpiece came together:
(graphic by Mike DeAngelis, taken from the band’s beautiful official site)
Special thanks to Vulture Culture’s Pete and Josh for bringing us on board!
