You can stop watching music videos now

[andrewducker]

This one is clearly the ultimate music video ever. Julie's already threatened to leave me for the leading man. And who can blame her?

Comments

[diotina.livejournal.com]

I have no words.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

It's like someone took Mat, sucked out all his snuggliness, and bleached him...

[joexnz.livejournal.com]

someone refilmed dungeons and dragons, using soft core porn actress?
(even the leading bloke is soft core porn actress, clearly i don't have the same taste in men that julie has, i think we are all quite glad for that)
were do i buy the series, and wheres the mute button!!!

[joexnz.livejournal.com]

PS. simon wants four and a half mins of his life back

the man clearly has no taste for strong cheese, eye wateringly strong cheese

[captainlucy.livejournal.com]

From this moment on, I am divorcing my right hand and embarking on a (possibly futile) quest for the three hot women in the carriage at 2:42... (and yes, I know they were in the video at other points, but, well, y'know...)

Truly that is magnificent, for Dr Reanimator levels of magnificent. It's like someone took elements of "The Princess Bride" and "Stardust" and filtered them through a mid '80s Heart video. Surely a recipie for ultimate win!

[captainlucy.livejournal.com]

Pant-wettingly strong cheese, surely? :D

[matgb]

Bbbut.

He looked like a bloody elf. I don't look like a bloody elf. Either they spent a small fortune making that, or there's a TV series out there somewhere with that in.

Ouch.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Sweetheart, you have long, straight, timotei-man hair, and you are very pretty. You only need to be stupidly thin and you'd be all Legolassed.

[skington.livejournal.com]

The weirdest thing is, from what I can tell, it genuinely appears to be a one-off music video, at least if the info on the Youtube version is anything to go by.

Yet the artist's music page which purports to be a list of songs, with links to "Play MP3", in actually just a static image, with no attempt to provide links to even snippets of the other songs. (This might be an emergency page - the domain was registered in 2004, but archive.org doesn't show any changes since 2006. The page claims the album is on iTunes, but it wasn't when I just looked (UK and US stores). And Amazon has no sign of it.

Thinking about it, though, there's only actually three locations, tops, which required any actual shooting of actors; the rest could easily be CGI, certainly if the couple of dodgy scenes are anything to go by. The flying dragon things are carefully only ever seen in dark conditions and all animated the same way, a number of the 1- or 2-second scenes could easily be stock footage, and the actresses only ever have to look gorgeous but not actually do anything taxing - possibly Chris the Producer called in a few favours from make-up and wardrobe friends?

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

This is heralding a world where insanely over the top CGI visuals are available to everyone with a home computer, regardless of taste.

Lots of discussion on YouTube about how it was done. But in another few years, we'll be gasping again as actors properly integrate into CGI backgrounds, all produced by a couple of twelve-year-olds in Wigan.

Only this week, Roger Ebert observed that it was now possible to make a movie with excellent acting, plot, costumes, sets, that was still, nevertheless, awful. We've used high production values as a code for quality; and I just don't think we're going to be able to so easily in the future.

[lebeautemps.livejournal.com]

oh. God.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

I like strong cheese! I have some very nice Stilton in the fridge for Christmas.

Am I the only one who thinks that video is utterly gobsmackingly appalling - and not in a so-bad-it's-good-way?

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I think someone has watched Ladyhawk once too often. Pretty, but... David Sylvian is prettier and both of 'em are too blonde.

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

If it helps, I think it's both. Remember that old optical illusion that's either a young lady looking away or an old crone?

It's kind of like that.

[andrewducker]

I totally agree (and I posted that review on my journal :-> )

It's not new though - My ex flatmate Saint once remarked that companies should be banned from including CGI in their adverts unless the advert itself came up to a certain quality standard, because there was a rash of cheapo-CGI adverts because computer power had hit a rock-bottom level.

cairmen was saying a few days ago that the film industry is also having problems because it's now vastly cheaper to make a film - but cinemas can't physically show any more, and audiences aren't getting any bigger...

[neriedes.livejournal.com]

Hey Mr Ducker,

You're a very literate guy on the web. I was wondering if you knew of any articles or websites on the web about colour theory/colour psychology and the emotion of colour and light.

I am doing my dissertation "visual psychiatry" about the way cinematographers paint with light to manipulate the image.

Any suggestions?

A. x

[andrewducker]

Sorry - I had a quick word with Julie about it and neither of us knows much anything about it!

[neriedes.livejournal.com]

Thanks Andrew :)