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Watch The Walkmen Perform 'Lisbon' with Flash-based, Real-time, Multi-angle...
The Walkmen's new album Lisbon is an aural treat, and they've been given the multi-angle treatment as part of Pitchfork's POV Concert Series. The online player allows you to watch their show from any...
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Das Racist's Music Video for 'Who's that Brooown' is a Game
This post won't appeal to everyone, but even if you don't listen to rap music -- and "joke" rap at that -- the group best known for last year's novelty smash Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell has a...
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Johnny Cash's Final Studio Album Gets a Beautiful Crowdsourced Music Video
What do you do when you have a final studio album from the late, great Johnny Cash, but no way to have the legendary man in black appear in the music video? Crowdsource it. This is what director Chris...
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DANIELS' Awesome 'Simple Math' Music Video for Manchester Orchestra
I like music videos that tell stories, as opposed to ones in which the band plays their instruments and lip-synchs in front of the camera (as if to explain they are a band and they play music). DANIELS...
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Chris Milk's Mind-Blowing 3D Music Video '3 Dreams of Black' Redefines Web...
Director Chris Milk, whose work I've covered here before, has released in conjunction with some Google Chrome developers his latest music video, "3 Days of Black," for the supergroup Rome (which, for...
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Egil Pedersen's Music Video for 'Dropping Feathers' Gets Clever with After...
Egil Pedersen directed the music video for Ruggged Wilderness & Mountain Man No More's track "Dropping Feathers," and uses some clever post-production tricks that tell the story in a very organic...
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New Nikon D800 Footage to Scrutinize: Music Video for 'You're On' by Euzen
This is a post by Joe Marine... much more to come from Joe soon. Stay tuned! Nikon's new D800 will be put through its paces soon enough (we hope), but until then we've got some moderately compressed...
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Crafting a Story with Serialized Music Videos: M83's 'Midnight City' and...
Music videos have been around for years, and while you're less likely to see them on television as much anymore (ahem...MTV), there has been a resurgence in the form thanks to services like YouTube and...
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Jack King Creates Four Inter-Connected Promos for To Kill A King's 'My...
There was once a time when the music video director was the king of all he surveyed, with a filmmaker's toy box full of gear, exotic locations and armies of extras all lavishly funded by labels happy...
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Watch Shia LaBeouf's Moving Performance in this Sigur Rós and Alma Har'el Film
Every once in a while a typecasted Hollywood actor goes outside their comfort zone and surprises everyone. Though some might think that there are always selfish motives behind some of these choices,...
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How to Shoot a Musical Performance Cinematically: Duran Duran Live with Den...
Trying to capture a musical performance in its entirety without missing anything requires serious planning and attention to detail. Den Lennie over at F-Stop Academy had the monumental task of being...
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Music Promo 'För Långt Ut' Wears Its Sci-Fi References on Its Sleeve Without...
Of all the music promos you can currently bring to mind, how many of them would you say feature a retrofuturistic journey at their heart (it's OK I can wait while you think about it)? In his promo for...
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Horrific Music Video 'Tears' Reveals Ankle Biters Can be Fatal to Your HEALTH
The frights of Halloween may be behind us for another year, but the one of the joys of surviving the disturbing images of a good horror film is the pleasure that comes from inflicting that experience...
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RED EPIC Footage Dubbed to VHS and Back? Hip Hop Music Video Blends Old with New
I may be alone in this, but I often wonder about pretty wild and crazy sorts of technical things (many times involving VHS tape -- don't ask :). For instance, I'd be curious to see how RED holds up...
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Paul Trillo Creates a 360° Panorama with a Canon 7D for the Peach Kings Music...
When one of my roommates moved to LA to pursue a full-time screenwriting career, I used the following criteria to choose a new roommate: "which among our applicants is the most talented filmmaker?"...
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Elijah Wood's Bio-Mechanical Arm in Flying Lotus 'Tiny Tortures' Music Video,...
Elijah Wood must be best known for his starring role in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and less so for some of his darker work (Sin City, Eternal Sunshine, and my personal favorite alien-takeover...
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M83 Concludes Their Serialized Sci-Fi Music Video Trilogy with 'Wait'
The French electronic band M83 has been working with the directorial team Fleur & Manu to produce a trilogy of sci-fi music videos following the adventures of a group of children with X-Men-type...
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Watch the Surreal 'We Are On Fire' Shot on the Weisscam HS-2, Plus Blackmagic...
Slow motion is one of the many beauteous benefits gleaned from the advancement and proliferation of digital technology -- not only has it been made less of a headache to achieve, it's also effectively...
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Watch 'I'll Be Home for Christmas,' a Single Steadicam Shot 120FPS RED EPIC...
While some of you may still be in the holiday spirit and enjoying time with family, we've got a music video from Sufjan Stevens that may or may not make you feel just a little different about the...
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Music Video 'Dirty Night Clowns' Choreographs Marionettes That Go Bump in the...
Short films featuring puppeteering tend to be rather thin on the ground -- in fact only Natalie van den Dungen's Paddling Ghost music video for Dan Deacon jumps to mind as a puppet centric film we've...
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Make a Dead Can Dance Music Video for a Chance to Win £3,000/$4,700 (and...
Dead Can Dance has been making their particular kind of mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful music ever since I was but a tot. After disbanding for about 7 years, they reunited in 2005 for a world tour,...
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Noisey and Belvedere Vodka Kick off 6-Part Promo Collaboration with Benjamin...
There's nothing new about brands partnering with creative talent to give a mutual boost to their respective profiles, but what's slightly different about the new six-part video collaboration from...
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Watch Woodkid's Trio of Stylized Music Videos, Which Have Racked Up Over 24...
"I create these stories with missing pieces. Missing pieces are very interesting because then people wanna fill them. People are afraid of emptiness and they wanna fill those gaps.... That's exactly...
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Directing Duo 'Us' Connect the 3D Dots in Foals 'My Number' Music Video
If you look back fondly on those days of seeing an image reveal itself point by point as you worked your way through a dot-to-dot puzzle, then the new video for Foals' My Number from Christopher...
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Cauboyz Chooses DIY Practical Effects Instead of Digital with Their Music...
I'm as guilty as anyone of falling under the spell of the technically complex or epic-in-scale music video, perhaps sometimes at the expense of those that take a more straightforward approach in their...
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How to Shoot a Low-Budget 4K Music Video on the Canon 1D C with Philip Bloom
You might know him from his excellent camera reviews, but Philip Bloom also has a large body of work online that consists of music videos, documentaries, and narratives. For his most recent project,...
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'Insane Office Escape 2' is the Craziest NSFW POV GoPro Music Video You'll...
You've all seen first person or POV videos at some point -- but the new Biting Elbows music video is something else entirely. Continuing with the Insane Office Escape Series (insane is an...
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Take a Pixilation Tour with Joey Ramone in the Music Video for 'New York City'
Tasked with the creation of a music video for the Joey Ramone track New York City, director Greg Jardin decided to get literal in his interpretation of the song and hit the NY streets with his crew,...
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Watch Ian & Cooper's Cinemagraph-Inspired RED EPIC Monochrome-Shot Music...
A few days ago we pondered what the effect of mobile video sharing app Vine enabling website embedding may have on filmmakers, but with mobile app Echograph seeing itself recently acquired by the...
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SBTRKT's Extreme Promo 'Trials of the Past' Isn't One for the Faint of Heart
If you like your music videos light of tone and populated by dancing girls gyrating through candy coloured tones, then you'll probably want to skip Ross Anderson's extreme make over promo for SBTRKT's...
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First Music Video Shot in Space: Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performing David...
If you haven't seen it yet, well, prepare for something that has never happened in the history of human existence: the first full music video shot in space. Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut and the...
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Adobe Commissions Liquid Art Video 'Magma' to Promote the Creative Cloud
When not busy transitioning people from boxed software to their subscription option, Adobe occasionally takes time out to partner with talented users to bring projects created with their tools to...
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Henri-Georges Clouzot-Inspired Music Video Shows Us the Power of Light on the...
How often do we think about the effect that light has on shaping the human face? It's one of those questions that experienced cinematographers are always contemplating, but one that younger shooters...
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Kijek / Adamski Bring the Flow in Their 32-Pass Motion Control Promo 'Slang 2'
Dress it up with bling, scantily clad ladies or hydraulic bouncing cars, but when it comes to hip-hop as an art form, it's hard to beat the visceral pleasure of watching a skilled rapper staring into...
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Experimental Meets High-Speed: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Phantom...
Filmmaker Paul Trillo (full disclosure: a fellow Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective member, and also my former roommate) used chromakey suits to novel effect in his music video Lonely, and now he's back...
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Filmmaking Gets More Interactive with New Arcade Fire Video
Vincent Morisset is not a "traditional" filmmaker. The director comes from the world of multimedia programming, and it shows in his interactive videos for the band Arcade Fire. His latest and most...
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Nature is the Best Lighting School: An Interview with DP Matthias Koenigswieser
Lights Film School is one of those awesome internet resources that doesn't get enough props for its content. Even though they offer various paid iterations of their online filmmaking program, Lights...
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Is This the Best Interactive Music Video Ever Made?
By now you may have already seen the interactive music video for Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone, but unlike most music videos, once is hardly enough, since it's a collection of many different...
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Chet Faker Teams with Flume and the MōVI For Unique Dance-Driven Music Video
Everyone has buzzed about the MōVI when it was announced at this year's NAB, but now we're starting to see what people are actually doing with it. Two of Australia's biggest artists, Chet Faker and...
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Pharrell Just Released a 24-Hour Long Music Video (Really)
This isn't some YouTube joke with a 3 second clip extended to 24 hours (though that was my first guess upon hearing he'd made a video that long). Pharrell William's new music video for Happy is a full...
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Here's How the Controversial 'Photoshop' Music Video Was Created
A music video has been floating around the web for a while now, which shows a singer being "magically" transformed inside a fake image-editing program into a "more glamorous" version of herself. The...
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The First 'Magic Eye' Music Video Explained: Learn How the Filmmakers Pulled...
Chances are you've spent your fair share of precious time looking at (or trying to look at) one of those Magic Eye posters. You know what I'm talking about -- those pictures that look like nothing but...
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Shooting on NYC Streets & Braving the Cold with MōVI & RED EPIC for Pillar...
Shooting in the freezing cold is never an easy task, especially when your gear wants to stop working at all the wrong moments. The team over at Wild Combination braved the elements -- including New...
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BTS: This Interactive Music Video Lets You Control the Action. Find out How
Interactive media may not be a staple of narrative filmmaking, but it's certainly making itself known in music videos. Last year, we saw the work of several big name musicians and groups contain...
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How DANIELS Broke the Internet with the Music Video Sensation 'Turn Down for...
UPDATE: part two of this interview, where DANIELS share the original treatment for "Turn Down for What," is here. Three years ago I posted one of my favorite music videos of all time, created by the...
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Director Tyler T. Williams Gets Deadly with DIY Microbudget Neo-Noir Music...
Budgets are rapidly coming down for music videos, but some directors still manage to execute their visions on a budget. Tyler T. Williams is perhaps one of the best at this, always putting together...
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Award-Winning Directors DANIELS Share the Original Treatment for their 50...
In part two of our interview with the directing duo DANIELS, we talk about forging careers as music video directors, film school, storyboarding, writing treatments, and moving onto feature films....
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This Might Be the Most Entertaining, Informative, & Inspiring BTS Video Ever...
BTS videos and films can be many things. Sometimes they're just that, a brief glimpse behind the scenes of your favorite films. Other times, they're a harrowing account of productions that, by all...
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Turning Shia LaBeouf into an Actual Cannibal: Behind the Scenes of the Viral...
With almost 11 million views on YouTube, the music video for Rob Cantor's "Shia LaBeouf Live" is clearly a viral success. If you haven't seen it before, let me give you a visual. Imagine tons of...
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Shooting in Zero-G in a Single Take: Behind the Scenes of OK Go's New Music...
Four words: Zero. Gravity. Music. Video. The alt rock band OK Go is known for their unusual music videos, like the one in which they performed a choreographed dance on treadmills, but the one for...
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