Alot of ants for antsville... QT www.factoryfilms.net view on site www.placeboworld.co.uk

         

Really love this video, think it deserves a picture attatched but but unfortunately my antville no-how is limited to a mere posting. Hope it this doesnt mean it gets relegated to the no comments basket!

         

Awesome! Really cool mix of B movie sci-fi and slick effects. Great track as well. Interesting narrative in it, like the subtle political edge, very relevant!

         

engles: click on "images" in the little box top-right: you'll find an image i uploaded, called infrared. copy its macro-name (it starts with a < and ends with a >), and paste that into your post.

re: the vid: story's a'ight, performance seriously in the way, the whole thing's shot like something from the eighties...

         

Thanks for that progosk. ( ; Can't help that your being delibrately controversial, don't think it bears any resemblance to anything out of the 80s'! Maybe only down to that the ants are real rather than 3D, but I think thats what makes it. Nice use of real and CG.

         

I felt the same way. It's too much like just another performance video with a small story attached to the sidelines to make it a bit more interesting. don't think that this is something that would make it like something from the eighties though.

         

W00t ants!!

         

was buzzing at the chance to do a sci-fi story with ants. been an ambition for years, and placebo were really into the idea. I get the point with the band/story split, but ultimately its a music video not a short film, so it has to be about the music. There's not much funding around to develop story and narrative ideas and bands that are up for supporting those expressions are not in the majority. video for "song to say goodbye" was a good example of pure story. a lot of the stuff that does have more freedom makes it onto antville, and that might give the impression that you can do what you want in music video's, reality is 90 % of whats out there is performance based or centered for good reasons and there's a challenge in that, but you have to see it for what it is. Whole thing was filmed on HD, primarily because waiting around for ants to perform would have burned too much film, and I wanted it all to have the same look.

         

HOLO: You do much much better work than this. The fourtet piece is tremendous. You mention shorts above and I'm curious if you're working on any now...?

Either way, I look forward to your next.

         

Thanks lusk, It's really cool you like the fourtet piece. I'm still really happy with the result on this one, it's just a different kind of video. The fourtet piece had a six month deadline with absolute creative freedom. (The final production once the idea was in place took about six weeks with a couple of weeks to get the shoot ready.) The track is 5 minutes long and was not intended as a single release. So there are lots of things that make that piece more of a personal film. That kind of project is extremely rare. but if you look at some of the more strikingly individual music videos, ganz graf, push pulk- like spinning plates, and many others, they have similar production characteristics. I hope these don't sound like excuses for why one thing and another achieve different goals. ultimately, you look at the best examples of work by gondry, chris cunningham, etc and there is a unity there that makes them both a personal film and a hugely successfull music video at the same time. I guess thats what were all aiming for (the unity i mean). I'm not working on any short films at the moment, but have some ideas and am keeping an eye out for funding. cheers for the interest and the encouragement lusk, ed

         

your piece for she moves she has me rewatching it every now and then.

         

yep, ed, kudos on the two four tetters. are we allowed to project ourselves onto those ants now?

         

project away.