Am 07.08.2010 20:28, schrieb Kevin Wampler:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Oh my God... I just found this on the official website:
>>
>> http://www.thebaseballs.com/videos/rocknroll
>>
>> How *mental* is that?? It's, like, 3 minutes long and appears to be a
>> single take. Crazy!
>>
>
> It's a fun music video and all, but as far as technical achievement for
> long single take videos this is not very impressive nor very novel (not
> knocking the band, I'm sure they have a limited budget and aren't out to
> make a technically impressive video anyway).

It's apparently not the band who did the video, but the pupils at some 
Polish school. For /that/, it seems exceptionally impressive to me.

> In the realm of music videos (of which I know very little) I think that
> Ok Go's "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w is much more
> impressive in this regard (and is inspired by equally or more impressive
> previous work, such as that by Peter Fischli and David Weiss).

Compared to the Baseballs video, I think it's pretty lame: Virtually all 
you have to choreograph is a bunch of predictable mechanics. That's a 
piece of cake (once you have mastered the technological skills) compared 
to choreographing some 100 amateur actors, of which maybe 25 or more 
have a short "main actor" role.

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