Analysis on Sam Bisbee's - "You Are Here" [IDD 301]
I decided to take a look at Sam Bisbee's music video for "You Are Here." This video is quite different from the other videos and animations I have been analyzing. This video looks like it wasn't necessarily made in Macromedia's Flash. It could have been made in any number of animation programs.
The video incorporates a couple different techniques in it. The majority of the video is a 'frame by frame' animation. They use this technique in a very interesting way. A series of several photographs are placed on top of each other to create motion within the photographs. The video also has full motion video as transitions. One of the transitions a hand comes into view and grabs all of the photographs and takes them off of the table so more photographs can be stacked again.
The frame rate of the 'frame by frame' photograph sequences are also in sequence with the beat of the music. This helped tie the two together.
The technique with the photographs was incorporated well into the video, however, I think that if this were any longer it would have soon lost my interest. The different transitions different camera angles within the photographs kept my interest. Without the variation the technique would lose its effect quickly. The director managed to keep a descent balance of everything throughout the video.
The video incorporates a couple different techniques in it. The majority of the video is a 'frame by frame' animation. They use this technique in a very interesting way. A series of several photographs are placed on top of each other to create motion within the photographs. The video also has full motion video as transitions. One of the transitions a hand comes into view and grabs all of the photographs and takes them off of the table so more photographs can be stacked again.
The frame rate of the 'frame by frame' photograph sequences are also in sequence with the beat of the music. This helped tie the two together.
The technique with the photographs was incorporated well into the video, however, I think that if this were any longer it would have soon lost my interest. The different transitions different camera angles within the photographs kept my interest. Without the variation the technique would lose its effect quickly. The director managed to keep a descent balance of everything throughout the video.
posted by Tim A. at 10:47 PM
2 Comments:
I agree, the different camera angle transitions were a major part of what kept my interest during the animation. I hadn't thought about it, but you're right, if they didn't vary the technique as much as they did, the flipping-through-photos idea would have become old fast. I think that what really holds it together, other than having everything synchronized to the music, is that the coffee table background never changes.
-Sandy
the pictures are real, they were shot on a canon G2 and then printed out on a hewlett packard home printer and are, as the coin and gum suggest, very small. that's why it looks cool, because it's real. NO CGI!
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