Extraordinary Choreography
Won Over By Reality
By Tim Bayer
BRIGHTON New York—(Weekly Hubris)—1/5/2014—With the proliferation of stunning digital image manipulation and special effects, most of the coolest of the cool visual stuff on view in videos is now produced by leveraging computer processing power by way of CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery). A fine example of way-cool CGI appeared in my recent column titled “Music Magic.”
However, what I’m sharing with you this week is a video with impressive visual effects not generated by a computer. This footage (from the band “OK Go”) features extraordinary choreography and precisely synchronized movements to create an eye-popping short film.
A brief look back: just in case you missed my last post of the 2014 holidays, and want to take a peek back, here’s a link to “Piano Magic.”
The video this week was shot using a drone-mounted camera and accomplished in one continuous shot. According to Wikipedia: “The filming took about four days to complete . . . . They recorded about 44 takes with eleven being fully completed takes, and three of those being of the quality they sought.”
(If you, yourselves, come across an entertaining link or video, I’d be interested in seeing it, and sharing it with my readers at Weekly Hubris. Please contact me at: Email: [email protected].)
Tim Bayer
Tim Bayer, Webmaster, and Assistant Editor of Weekly Hubris, was born and brought up in Webster, New York. He attended St. Bonaventure University, earning a BS in Computer Science, and then worked in the hi-tech world. In 2002 he turned his creative energies to product development and video production with the release of his first independently produced products. When the demand for web site design and freelance writing increased, he once again switched skill sets . . . to writing and web work. An avid or, to be more accurate, rabid, disc golfer, he may often be found chasing plastic while in pursuit of the perfect round on a disc golf course, or designing and developing disc golf products for Demogrid.com. He says he tries to find the humor hidden in everyday experiences, because, “life is too important to be taken seriously.” (Author photo by Tim Bayer. Author Head Shot Augment: René Laanen.)
2 Comments
Will Balk
Tim, I’ll happily watch anything OKGo decide to do. They are always wonderful. I love the tweak they give to the cheek of CGI; the amount of technical brilliance to produce something like this in analog is amazing. And the slight, just-off moments only make it better – wabi-sabi! Delightful piece.
Tim Bayer
Thanks Will!
Having done a lot of video production myself (with multiple takes for a seemingly simple scene/shot) , I was amazed at the complication of this single-shot film.