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Yeah. This one rocks... Great contrast between downbeat of the song & strikingly hilarious composits.

Beautifully shot. Killer track.

This one's a hit for sure, people will love it. Excellent job!

         

perfect track/video combo! thanks for the mov!

         

nice action

         

bloody amazing. kinga does it again.

         

Not bad but all these 80's throwback video's are getting very repetitive now. This one seems like just another forgettable one to add to the pile.

         

i agree. there's been too many videos like this one recently. "lets make fun of bad 80's comps" does not = a good concept.

         

Maybe an 80s throwback, but it was a great song, really elegantly put together, and wacky enough to keep my attention. It wasn't your typical "let's use some cheesy effects" videos.

         

Cool! HQ availible here: www.myspace.com

         

that'd be here

         

Same director, Same trick, different day, different artist

videos.antville.org

It is bizarre how this outstandingly unoriginal technique goes unnoticed.

Instead it just gains sycophantic praise such us 'she does it again' from other friend directors.

'does WHAT again' exactly?

Trawls youtube for Bonnie Tyler, Fleetwood Mac and other like-minded 80's videos to rip off? Teenagers - Make It Happen???

It is just amazing how these days mildly successful directors like this are so *ucking unoriginal hiding purely behind styling and copying video styles. It really is scary, something has to change.

Nice track though.

         

oh come on. she's pitching videos that labels want to make. end of story.

you sound pretty bitter. you are probably sitting in your bedroom in your underpants dreaming about the fact that you could make an altogether more substantial masterpiece with the same low budget/ brief/ track/ week to make it in.

well... good for you mate.

         

Shatner -

Just because you sit around in your undepants all day does not mean everybody else does. I work at a european label and I just find it amazing how it has got to this point.

These are the videos the labels want to make? In part you are not wrong there and that is precisely the problem.

I am not bitter just pissed off at the the talentless commissioners and foolish directors who accept this shit.

When the budgets are so bad what the hell is the point for a director to just remake videos that were being made 20 years ago?

It takes brave and talented people to innovate on both sides of the fence.

This site helps to critically push the boundries of a great format, seeing work falling to this level of creativity is just disappointing, sorry if that happened to ruffle your feathers.

         

brooklynia, if you're really that upset about the lack of innovation in music videos, why don't you push your label to raise budgets, allow for a proper amount of time for pre and post production, and ask for riskier treatments. i think it's hilarious to hear people from labels moaning about the quality of music videos. Kinga probably has to make a living, just like you. It's hard to do that when even big acts are coming at you with tiny budgets. If she wants to work, she needs to make things labels (you!) will go for. It's as simple as that.

         

Hey budget, we'll increase our ... um ... budgets, when people start buying music again. OK? So like, never.

         

everyone should pay a music and film license fee and then make everything available for free. because yes, those media are too easy to distribute for free at the moment. stealing on the internet is out of control. imagine if shoes or wheelbarrows were this easy to steal over the internet- they would have sorted that out by now.

whole other debate though.

brooklyn- I was just trying to smugly demonstrate how much more in touch with the realities of making videos 'inside the system' I think I am than you, that is all. Typical Antville bitch-move.

It's tough out there yo, so I just don't like it when people are flippantly diss-ful of videos. That is all.

         

Yes. I have no idea what the solution is, but if you want to know why the budgets aren't there, it's because the industry as a whole has hit a financial wall.

         

Has it though? I'm not talking about indies, they're allowed to go to directors with 7k budgets. The majors though, they actually had a better year than last but the budgets are still dropping. Look at how many reshoots happened this year- the budget is there to shoot something twice, why not just shovel everything into the first video and avoid a reshoot to begin with?

Furthermore, videos are a money-making tool for the first time in the history of the industry. Youtube is turning people in to millionaires, and the labels are cashing in on this too. A few weeks ago an indie label new media guy boasted to me that he'd recouped the entire budget of one of his 20k videos after just two weeks of showing it on youtube. There's also the itunes store and zillion other profit-sharing video sites. Labels aren't stupid, they're going to rip off production companies and directors and take in the extra profits to increase their bottom lines. Don't tell me they've "hit a wall".

I'm all for not wasting money, but at this point the labels seem content to give directors next to nothing to work with, reap the benefits, and still demand the moon.

         

It is. And everyone is hit: Rolling Stone article on industry sales from 2007. I haven't seen the '08 numbers.

There is a lot of double-speak regarding the digital sales increases (some from the majors), which were obviously coming. But an increase in digital sales does NOT mean that the companies are making more money on the whole. Profitability is still down comparatively.

For every video that turns someone into a millionaire, there are thousands - tens of thousands - that do not. How many times do you want to play those odds with high budgets, when some crappy handy-cam video may very well do you one better?

The guy who boasted to you is an exception, not the rule.

Indies are lucky because they are leaner running machines than a traditional major label, and are more capable of switching gears to capitalize on alternate revenue models. That said, they are also hurt by the decline in real-world sales, even if people are listening to more music, or watching more videos than ever.

         

Same director, same anonymous useless stupidly crappy post, different exclusively for this director video first time seen nick

I bet you all, the same IP address

It is bizarre how this outstandingly unoriginal hater waste so much energy believing he’ll achieve anything.