Muse "Uprising" director humble collabrotive "Hydra"
Humble directing collective Hydra, follows up its VMA nominated debut with an epic narrative of tiny proportions. For “Uprising", the lead off single from Muse's eagerly awaited new album, our boys tweaked both time and space to create an dystopic, ultra slo-mo world in 1/25th scale. We shot for 4 days on 2 continents, with two 1938 GMC pickup trucks (of drastically different size) using both the RED and Phantom cameras to get the dreamy, slo-mo look the story demanded.
A compressed delivery schedule meant an intense 11 days in-house edit/compositing marathon, with our whole post team living, eating, and breathing bears for way longer than what could be considered physically or mentally healthy. Fortunately, we feel our delirium translated quite well into the paranoia and nightmarish anti-logic of the finished piece.
Note: Many teddy bears were indeed harmed in the making of this video. Special thanks to Warner Brothers for supplying us with so much bonfire fodder. And to the lovely woman on Ebay who sold us the antique Hungarian bear, know that he's now resting in a much better place with a steel yarmulke stitched into his head.
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Nice video, great DOP work
... a waste of 3min of my day. Thanks for the memories...
11 days of post! 4 days production! 2 continents! 1 mediocre video. Love the PR piece, though. "Nightmarish anti-logic"? You guys were smelling your own farts when you wrote that, weren't you.
...song is just a slowed-down version of the Dr Who theme song, no?
Video is OK, feels like Zac Snyder trying to do David Lynch, performance work very flat which for me pulls it down, and I wish next time you'd let the video speak for itself and refrain from the hyperbolic PR.
Also, reminds me a lot of Thomas Doyle's art, which I love, and just makes me think the video needs MORE DISASTER.
Yeah! God knows no one else on here is trying to sell anything!
Oh wait... music videos are ADVERTISEMENTS. My bad.
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That's a pretty hostile response. It's not like they claim to have invented anything.
and the song it sounds like is the mashup of Greenday and the older Dr. Who/Gary Glitter mash... www.youtube.com
better than most videos being posted here.
maybe... but is that just because the budget is 100 times bigger than most videos posted here? Does the concept, narrative, creativity, atmosphere or film skills really impress anyone? Not me... just looks like a lame idea with enough money to realize the full potential of its innate lameness.
Almost as good as 'a bunch of hipsters going to a party but everything has the aesthetic of ripped street posters'..... and then onto... 'evil teddy bears destroy a model train city'.
Nice one.
I thought this was pretty dope actually. The budget was far less then you think Kansas. It definitely was an accomplishment for money and time they had.
how much is far less than i think?
At least 50k to 100k right? This is Muse right? Budget would have been quite adequate whatever it was.
How long did they have? ...at least a month?
4 day shoot on 2 continents, 11 days in post for something that is primarily achieved in camera? Right?
That all sounds pretty relaxing to me.
I am not saying its not an accomplishment. Its well made and the idea is realized but this doesn't necessarily mean its a 'dope' video and the directors were definitely not slumming it.
