Muse Contest Video
// December 8th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Video
So per our usual last minute selves, Jabarie and I made this video for an entry to win Muse tickets when they come in March. Not that I couldn’t just go buy tickets… and I mean, I like Muse, but not that much. But, an excuse to do a video, is an excuse to do a video.
Actually, I suggested this idea to Jabarie when he first brought up the contest, but on the day of, he wasn’t really feeling it. I wanted to do it in front of my green screen, but since we weren’t gonna do it, i didn’t bring it with me. Of course, we ended up doing it…
The contest is that you have to perform a Muse song in one way or another, and you have to keep it under 60 seconds. So our concept is that somehow our bodies are making sounds, and we play the bass-line to “Hysteria” on our bodies. Then to sell the point, we had our various parts light up. Incidentally, we actually mapped out the bass line, so if you look at the info on the YouTube video, you can see which notes each color represents.
It was really, really, really hard to coordinate myself to do that. It took like, five million takes. I also wanted to do more with the video, but like I said earlier, it was very last minute (due tonight). Soo…. let’s see if we win this time around. If not, at least I have another pretty cool video.
During editing we started masking out our hands and stuff so they wouldn’t cover up the colors, but ended up deciding against it because it would take for-freakin-ever to do that, and I only had one night to edit. Besides, this way you see the colors better anyway. I also wanted to do more things for our feet, but again, ran out of time. You’d think that one day we’d actually plan ahead to do something and that way I’d be able to do everything I want with it…
I was originally planning on splicing up the actual Muse song to put into the video, but ended up using some synth sounds instead, so it feels more like we’re “performing” it, rather than just dancing to it. If you can call it dancing. I almost went back to the original recording, but even though this doesn’t sound as authentic, I think it helps sell the idea.
I also wanted to pan the audio so that my sounds would come out the left speaker and Jabarie’s out the right, but again… ran out of time / was too lazy to re-import into pro-tools and mix the audio in there. After Effects is definitely not made to do any sort of audio work. Sheesh!
Anyway, enjoy, and leave me a comment letting me know what you think!
