Jay-Z and Kanye West: "Otis" Dir: Spike Jonze
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I'll comment on my own post. These two should take a vacation and worry less about thrones. Nice car. I'm colored unimpressed. Well, you stop trying.
it looks like spike jonze shot a cool behind the scenes clip for the new jay and kanye video. hackwork. camera shadows. shitty editing. spike should stick to skate videos if he's going to keep this shit up.
guys just having fun with it, looks like they dreamt up some random stream of conciousness - type ideas, filmed it, cut it without much a plan... but overall just a really fun looking, feel good video...
interestingly feels a bit more like a mark romanek video than a jonze one.
i think it's brilliant though, the world needs more freeform, obscure mainstream videos like this... with 3 of the seriously most famous guys in the world... not taking themselves very seriously. cool.
100 other videos with "rich rappers just having fun, not taking themselves too seriously" will debut this year. This is the only one that will get props from people who otherwise hate videos with "rich rappers just having fun, not taking themselves too seriously".
In other words, if this had Hype's name attached to it instead of Spike, people would be bagging on it like crazy.
Booooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnngggggg. Two egomaniacs and an art fag trying to coast on their charisma but forget to fill the tank up with an 800K budget.
Jonze is getting too old for this game. There, I said it. Between this and the beastie boys video he might be winning out over Gondry in the race into the sunset of their MV careers. Anybody seen the new Daniels video? It's fucking money.
relax budget, what you got a stone in your shoe? dont over analzye this... just enjoy the video
loved it.
Like it. Loose, good vibes. The irony of this video would be lost with someone like Hype. That's the difference.
@americanidle the recent Daniels / Chromeo video was cited as officially in production from the 1st of June on Video Static. I ask who gets 10 weeks to make a music video? I don't think even Spike Jonze gets that much time? Does he?
Not the Chromeo video, the Foster the People one. It's super good. I was on hold for the Chromeo job, and I was told that the budget was something like 25K, so giving them slack on the schedule is more than understandable.
From the opening, I though the video was going to be Jay and Kayne smashing up expensive stuff for kicks. I like that idea better.
Co sign Jesse.ewles. That sounded too good to be true.
Americanidle, villain? there's enough in here, but get in character. I see much time wasted instead of working.
I think what's turning people off is seeing two self satisfied millionares be lazy, maybe it's the point.
this video sucks to say it's like a mark romanek video means your a pituitary retard. any film student could have directed this, many of them doing a better job i imagine. get over the BRAND of SPIKE and see this for everything it should be and isn't.
its even worse than the action figures video; that one had a story to keep me mildly entertained and the song was nice
at least Kanye looks like he has a friend!
I like the idea of this video so much more than the actual clip.
This feels to me like a crappy first cut an editor rushed together while he was finishing another job. Seems like it's missing setups or something. I can just imagine Spike watching this and saying, "That's a good start. But it needs a lot of work and we're not using any of the good stuff." Only there was no good stuff.
Oh, and guys - rather than auction off that car (that no one will ever drive) maybe just write a check to Africa. I mean, come on.
no love for the colouring at least? looks it was shot with someone's iphone using instagram if it had video mode. that's the only redeemable part to me. and it's just fun i guess.
had it been shot on an iPhone and had they just trashed that ugly bently i would have been sold.
I may be in the few that find this one solid. I'm just surprised they had enough money left in the budget for pyro.
The basis of rap videos for the last 30 years has been dudes in their rides showing off; how is this a miss?
+1 for pyro and jonze
I think its great for the song, its all haters here. "Im colored unimpressed" does that even mean anything?
It's not all haters here, it's actually an agreement that this is shit.
It's an awful video and song, no matter which angle you spin it.
hmmmm. Just watched the video full screen which altered the experience from the first time. It's wonderfully photographed. Very clean, fun lens choices, feels different from a lot of the current hip hop videos. But yes they are performing to camera like most videos, and there are cars, girls, iconography, etc. But they're having a great time in a video, they're enjoying what they do, the car looks ridiculous and the video has a improv feel very much like otis's music. Barrier breaking, no. Fun and simple with no bull shit, yes.
Victus is right.
hmmm the video looks better indeed in full screen
Antville has been filled with mostly horrendous videos for months now. It's hard for me to even come here because it makes me sad for the state of the industry. Then, along comes Otis - a playful, entertaining, and cheeky hip-hop video that's utterly charming and almost all the comments blast it? When, in my mind, the video is near genius. Genius for its simplicity, clarity of purpose, and effortless delivery.
It reminds me of the famous photograph of Einstein riding a bicycle. The almost child-like joy on his face at doing something so simple somehow brings, into stark relief, the man's brilliance and also his humanity. For me, this video does something similar. Watching two titans of music (sampling a third titan) just enjoy themselves without overly-apparent artifice reminds us of just how accomplished they are while simultaneously suggesting that they still enjoy what they do.
The video is good. Yes, that's just an opinion but I hold it strongly enough that I'd have a hard time taking anyone, who could call this crap, seriously.
@motleycrew: its a maybach.
@kalstark I feel exactly the same. Jonze has still got it and he still has a lot to show the younger generation of After Effects twiddlers.
Oh man, can we please not make it into jonze vs new generation? He probably just worked with one of the biggest budgets of the year, don't compare him to some new kid destroying his social life to stretch 10k into a post-heavy masterpiece. He still has a lot to teach... about how to make a video with a world-class crew (harry savides shot this!) and enough money to make an entire 24 hour block of MTV Hits.
And really, antville has never been a place where everyone agrees. Some people like this video, some people don't. If you can find me a single instance of an antville consensus on a video with more than 10 comments, I'll eat my hat.
@budget: here you go videos.antville.org
ok,ok, hat eaten. Although that might be a bit of an outlier, since it was a lovefest for an antville regular. The main point is that even classic videos get torn apart initially on the ville.
By the way, some of you may have caught this on Mark Romanek's Twitter page after Otis came out:
@mattsontomlin: Hey, think Jay-Z might hit you up to direct a Watch the Throne video? @markromanek: There's been some back & forth about it. Amazing album.
vibrates The dreamiest of dreams would be if he directed the video for "Why I Love You".
@budget - sure budget comes into play but I think it's true that we've seen some really great videos on antville in recent years that were made for under 20k. Many of them winning various awards and certainly comparable to this Jonze video. What many of the 'after effects twiddlers' are missing are concepts, feeling and an ability to capture natural moments. These things can be achieved with low budgets but instead from my point of view we mostly see a bunch of vacuous bullshit hidden under a flurry of purposeless effects and tricks.
@Kranskian - hell I heard this Blue October video was shot for like 5 grand and the director is 23.
Doesn't reinvent the wheel or anything, but there is stuff from youngins' that doesn't rely on a ton of AE masks and smeared lighting.
