Interstella 5555 (Daft Punk)
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Ironfistviii
- Joined: Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:26 pm
Interstella 5555 (Daft Punk)
I am currently working on an AMV with this and I must say that there is some excellent footage here just waiting to be used. Find the whole saga on DVD or Kazaa. Its an hour of concecutive videos, although poorly synced there are excellent visuals and a lack of filler crap.
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7sigma
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rose4emily
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Interstella 5555 is licenced in America, and probably in many other countries as well, so you really should buy it if you liked it - especially if you are planning to make an AMV using it. It's $15-20 out of your pocket, but worth it.
It's not really supposed to be synchronized beat-for-beat with the music. The visuals are supposed to follow the mood of the music, and tell a story that is abstract enough to work without dialogue, but concrete enough to be something you can follow and make sense of - and they do so very well. If anyone's ever seen the film version of Pink Floyd's "The Wall", which I imagine is the most famous of feature-length music videos, you would remember from that that there were times where the beat and the visuals were in synch, or where an image would appear to match the lyric being sung at that moment - but that most of the time the match between the video and the audio was emotional and thematic. Same thing for "Dark Side of the Rainbow", or several long segments of "2001 - A Space Odyssey". There were even parts of Disney's "Fantasia" that would not rate as 'good AMV material' according to the stylistic criteria by which most AMVs are judged - yet I doub't that this is really any sign of artistic inferiority on the part of one of the world's most respected animation teams. Longer subjects call for a different treatment, and not all music is well suited to beat-for-beat synchronization. While I would hardly argue that Daft Punk's "Discovery" was in any way composed of music it would have been difficult to make a great conventional AMV to, I am glad to see that they and Leiji Matsumoto chose a different direction for their work.
And silent movies were kinda cool. As were black and white films. As is traditional two-dimensional animation. They're all examples of technical limitations that can, and have, given birth to wonderful examples of stylistic creativity. Things seem to be too explicit, too 'spelled-out' in much of modern media - with films that try to explain their philisophical framework in tedious dialogue, and television shows with pre-recorded laughter to inform the audience when they should find something funny. Having to fill in a few blanks gives the viewer a role beyond that of a passive observer, allowing a sort of 'involvement' with the story and its interperetation that can greatly deepen its effect. Maybe the lips don't move with the words of the song, but that's not the point if it's a story-telling film rather than a performance video.
As to making a video using Interstella 5555 footage, I don't see why not. If you change the song and cut it up as you would any other anime it does not matter much that it didn't contain any dialogue. It might be an interesting challenge to create an Interstella 5555 video that doesn't contain any of the 'stage' scenes - but they are so good that it would also be a shame to not use them.
It's not really supposed to be synchronized beat-for-beat with the music. The visuals are supposed to follow the mood of the music, and tell a story that is abstract enough to work without dialogue, but concrete enough to be something you can follow and make sense of - and they do so very well. If anyone's ever seen the film version of Pink Floyd's "The Wall", which I imagine is the most famous of feature-length music videos, you would remember from that that there were times where the beat and the visuals were in synch, or where an image would appear to match the lyric being sung at that moment - but that most of the time the match between the video and the audio was emotional and thematic. Same thing for "Dark Side of the Rainbow", or several long segments of "2001 - A Space Odyssey". There were even parts of Disney's "Fantasia" that would not rate as 'good AMV material' according to the stylistic criteria by which most AMVs are judged - yet I doub't that this is really any sign of artistic inferiority on the part of one of the world's most respected animation teams. Longer subjects call for a different treatment, and not all music is well suited to beat-for-beat synchronization. While I would hardly argue that Daft Punk's "Discovery" was in any way composed of music it would have been difficult to make a great conventional AMV to, I am glad to see that they and Leiji Matsumoto chose a different direction for their work.
And silent movies were kinda cool. As were black and white films. As is traditional two-dimensional animation. They're all examples of technical limitations that can, and have, given birth to wonderful examples of stylistic creativity. Things seem to be too explicit, too 'spelled-out' in much of modern media - with films that try to explain their philisophical framework in tedious dialogue, and television shows with pre-recorded laughter to inform the audience when they should find something funny. Having to fill in a few blanks gives the viewer a role beyond that of a passive observer, allowing a sort of 'involvement' with the story and its interperetation that can greatly deepen its effect. Maybe the lips don't move with the words of the song, but that's not the point if it's a story-telling film rather than a performance video.
As to making a video using Interstella 5555 footage, I don't see why not. If you change the song and cut it up as you would any other anime it does not matter much that it didn't contain any dialogue. It might be an interesting challenge to create an Interstella 5555 video that doesn't contain any of the 'stage' scenes - but they are so good that it would also be a shame to not use them.
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