Optimus Prime Was Right
With music videos becoming more and more predictable we decided to get away from the norm and let someone else with a different view take creative control of our video. We shot the video in our rehersal space as well as short clips from a metal fab shop using an old Panasonic SVHS camera. Jon Anastasiades morphed together some liquid visuals with live shots and think he did a great job. He entered our video in a CBC sponsored contest and came in with a top 5 out of 300. Not to bad for a video that was done on impulse
Eclectic metalcore video that's not the norm
Whoa, you're right, that really subverted the genre. I mean, that really changed the way I look at metalcore vids. I haven't seen anything like it, especially on Headbangers Ball.
Props for taking the time to make a video, but I hated it. Sorry. It looked like their might be a few effects and ideas in there you could build off to make a decent vid but for the most part it looks like an acid trip gone bad. I like the silhouetted head in the rain shot for instance.
Antvillers- Does anybody know of a hardcore/metalcore vid that doesn't look something like this? I'd like to know about it. I don't know...maybe it's what the kids want, but for some reason the hardcore genre has continued to turn out videos that feel like early 90's public access.
i agree with you, about that particular genre always chruning out videos that have looked the same for the past couple decades.
the only two off of the top of my head i can think of that were a bit different (for better or for worse) is one Lamb of God video (i think its As the Palace Burns) where the band is shot on a stark white background (which i kind of enjoyed since it was different) and a new Dillinger Escape Plan video on mtv.com 'Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants'.
im not saying either of them are good or anything (both are typical super cutty), but alteast they were a bit different than others in the genre. personally, id like to see a video for that genre that doesnt have 2 zillion cuts and doesnt fall to typical stereotypes of the genre
I love the video. Keep in mind that your audience will be limited to people that dig your type of music and also like experimental art types of work. Everyone else will hate it.
The best compliment I got on my own work on this site was that the person couldn't figure it out and that it gave them a headache. The worst thing would have been if someone said it looked like everyone elses stuff. Luckily no one said that.
It's GREAT and original and I wished I'd done it. Something to be proud of for sure. Shop it at the small film fests that accept and dig experiemental art type video and you will reach the target audience.
