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MUSIC VIDEOS STASH MEDIA INC. Editor: STEPHEN PRice Publisher: GReg ROBINS Associate editor: HEATHER GRIEVE Associate publisher: CHRISTINE STEAD Account managers: STACY JAMES FRY, APRIL HARVEY Producer: BRANDON DEMARCO Submissions coordinator: ABBEY KERR Music editor: STEVE MARCHESE Proofing editor: MARILEE BOITSON Preview director/producer: STACY JAMES FRY Preview editor: JEAN-DENIS ROUETTE Montage editor: JEFF ZEMETIS Contributing producer: ERIC ALBA Technical guidance: IAN HASKIN MUSIC Get your inspiration delivered monthly. Every issue of Stash DVD magazine VIDEOS is packed with outstanding animation and VFX for design and advertising. Subscribe now: WWW.STASHMEDIA.TV ISSN 1712-5928 Subscrptions: www.stashmedia.tv. Submissions: www.stashmedia.tv/submit. Contact: Stash Media Inc. 484-1641 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, BC V7M 2J5 Canada Legal things: Stash Magazine and Stash DVD are published 12 times per year by Stash Media Inc. All rights reserved and contents copyright Stash Media Inc. No part of this booklet nor the Stash DVD may be copied without express written permission from the publisher. Printed in Canada. Music videos are peculiar creatures – two-headed beasts with one head focused on selling a musical act and the other distracted by the artistry of sculpting visuals to audio. This dichotomy is jumbled further by music videos created not just to promote a product but to be the product itself. While compiling the list of music videos for this special collection, I began to wonder which of these visual treasures were made with which of those two heads. With all the marketing blockbusters and the abstract “art” videos out there, what I wanted to see was a collection of clips that fit into both categories; the chart-topping stars who choose the visually risky route despite their rank in a money-means-everything industry, and the obscure group who launches themselves toward stardom aboard a breakout marketing tool. Stash owes a lot to both camps, so I’d like to thank all the artists, animators, directors and labels who submit their music videos to us every month. Whether they were forged out of a passion to create something of artistic beauty, or to perpetuate corporate motion, we salute you. I also need to thank Stash’s very own music editor Steve Marchese for his input in assembling this collection. If you discover your favorite video didn’t make the cut, I would love to hear from you – but before you jump to your email, I can let you in on a secret; this is only the first in a series of Stash music video collections. Here’s hoping they are all filled with peculiar creatures and two-headed beasts. Heather Grieve Associate Editor Toronto, February 2008 [email protected] stash 01.29 “We Will Rock You” Music video 2:39 Record Company: UNIVErsAL LICENSING MusIC Agency: BETC EURO RSCG Directors/designers: SOANDSAU Production: WIZZ Animation: INVISIBLE www.invisible.fr When an Evian spot, directed by SoandSau (Jean Christophe Saurel and Sophie Deiss) and fueled by a reworking of Queen’s For Wizz: anthem, caught fire last year the Producer: François Brun agency and music label pounced. The resulting full-length video, For Invisible says the French helming duo, was Animation Super: Alexis Lavillat produced on a ridiculously short PM: Adeline Deorsola schedule but allowed them to Animation: Jean-Yves Castillon, develop ideas not possible in the David Cez, Nicolas Guilloteau, commercial. Wizz and Invisible are Gark based in Paris. Compositer: Karl Bourdin Toolkit After Effects stash 01.30 EMILIE SIMON “FLOWERS” Music video 2:35 Music label: BARCLAY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC FRANCE Directors: No BRAIN Production: CosA Animation NO BRAIN www.no.brain.free.fr French animation/direction collective No Brain have built a quick reputation for their mixed techniques and fresh vision that Cosa EP Julien Rigoulot describes as, “an incredible, precious authenticity”. Because of budget concerns, Flowers - originally pitched as a combination of stop- motion and CG - was animated entirelly in 3D except for several seconds of the music box. For Cosa EP: Julien Rigoulot For No Brain 2D: Bheu©,, Sylvain, Design: Guillaume Mat, Binjo, g-Lul Post producer: Niko Backgrounds: Isa 3D: Charly, Spawn, Editor: Delphine Boudon Bart, Rémi, Gaelle Toolkit 3ds Max, After Effects stash 03.21 BJORK “OCEANIA” Music video Directors: LYNN FOX Production: COLONEL BLIMP Animation/compositing: LYNN FOX www.lynnfox.co.uk Words seem inadequate to describe Bjork’s music as they do this video, a product of the mercurial singer’s ongoing collaboration with UK directorial collective Lynn Fox who also handled 3D and compositing. For Colonel Blimp Producer: Anna Brunaro For The Mill Producer: Bumble Davis Telecine: Adam Scott VFX super/Flame: Paul Marangos Flame assistant: Jay Bandlish Toolkit Flame, Spirit stash 08.19 SUBTLE “FK-9” Music video Record Label: LEX RECORDS Director: SSSR Animation: SSSR/PASSION PICTURES www.passion-pictures.com London-based collective SSSR is comprised of Kristian Hammerstad and Marc Raisbig from Norway and Yu Sato from Japan who all graduated in Graphic Design from Central St Martin’s College of Art in 2004. This video, a nightmarish haze of 2D traditional animation, CG and photography is the trio’s third for Subtle. SSSR is newly signed to Passion Pictures for commercials and videos. For SSSR Artists: Kristian Hammerstad, Marc Raisbig, Yu Sato stash 08.20 BECK “E-PRO” Music video Record Label: INTERSCOPE/GEFFEN Director: SHYNOLA Production: THE DIRECTOR’S BUREAU VFX/animation: SHYNOLA www.shynola.com London-based directing team Shynola (Gideon, Jason, Chris and Kenny) send Beck romping through a retro-tech vector underworld that begins when he digs up the grave of his pet dog. The weightless and disorienting movements of the singer/ songwriter were created by locking off the camera, suspending him in a harness and then controlling his motions with a team of rugged For The Director’s Bureau puppeteers. EP: Cayce Cole Producer: Eric Escott DP: Eric Schmidt AD: Mark Snalgrove Puppeteers: William Guyer, Kevin Carlson, Dave Barclay, James Murphy, Michelan Sisti, Greg Ballora Post: The Moving Picture Company stash 09.20 THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS “BELIEVE” Music video For Factory Films Record Label: Producer: John Madsen VIRGIN RECORDS For Framestore CFC Directors: VFX super: Ben Cronin DOM & NIC CGI super/TD: Andy Boyd Production: 3D animators/TDs: Jamie Isles, FACTORY FILMS Chris Syborn, Nicklas Andersson, VFX: Alex Doyle, Howard Sly, Anders FRAMESTORE CFC Thonell, Don Mahmood, Dean www.framestore-cfc.com Robinson, Kate Hood, Jake Mengers, Rob Holder During the shoot for the Renault Sr Inferno: Ben Cronin “Hector’s Life” spot (Stash 07), Inferno: Chris Redding Framestore CFC and directing Post producer: Rebecca Barbour team Dom & Nic shot tests using Line producer: Linda Francini Mini DV. Intrigued with the feel and hand held look of the digital Toolkit footage, the directors chose to Image Based Lighting with Mental use the format for this narrative Ray, Maya, Inferno promo that would have been too expensive in 35mm. With over 30 CG shots to do in a compressed schedule, senior TD Chris Syborn used Maya’s dynamic hair tools to handle the secondary motion required by the robot’s tail of cabling and wires. The final composite was completed in two weeks. stash 09.28 GORILLAZ “FEEL GOOD INC.” Music video Record label: PARLOPHONE Directors: JAMIE HEWLETT, PETE CANDELAND Production/VFX/animation: PASSION PICTURES www.passion-pictures.com Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, better known as the animated band Gorillaz, are back with their first album since their multi-million selling 2001 debut. This video for the first single fuses drawn and computer animation, painted backgrounds and treated live action. All the animation was done in-house at Passion Pictures with co-director Candeland helming a team of 35 animators, designers and compositors over a 12-week schedule. For Passion Pictures EP: Andrew Ruhemann Producers: Emilie Walmsley, Cara Speller 2D animation: Robert Valley, Heath Kenny, Rikke Asbjorn AD: Daniel Cacouault Matte painter: Christobal de Oliveira CG animation: Wesley Coman CG supers: Chris Hemming, Antoine Moulineau Sr compositor: Johnny Still Compositing: Niamh Lines, Cassiano Prado, Ed Salkeld TD: Mark Wilson For Rushes VFX: Duncan Malcolm, Marcus Wood, Brian Carbin Producer: Carl Grinter Toolkit: Toonz, LightWave, Photoshop, After Effects stash 10.21 AUDIO BULLYS “SHOT YOU DOWN” Music video Record label: VIRGIN RECORDS Director: JONAS ODELL Production: NEXUS, FILMTECKNARNA Animation/VFX: FILMTECKNARNA www.filmtecknarna.com Director Jonas Odell on creating the “Shot You Down” video in which he uses archival clips of Nancy Sinatra performing the original tune: “The way they [Audio Bullys] create a sound collage out of the original song and their own dance beats is quite remarkable. Skewed, asymmetrical and uncompromising, the track is a piece of art. I felt I wanted to use the same approach visually as the band had musically when they put the track together; to work with For Virgin Records visual “samples” and loops, and Commissioner: Jane Newton hopefully to adopt the same kind For Filmteckarna and Nexus of irreverent and uncompromising Producers: Lina Stenberg, attitude towards the material. It’s Julia Parfitt neither easy listening nor easy DP: Ben Moulden watching, but it should be at all times entertaining. Call me a Video Bully if you want, I don’t care… ” stash 11.22 PHEONIX FOUNDATION “HITCHCOCK” Music video Record Label: FESTIVAL MUSHROOM RECORDS Director: REUBEN SUTHERLAND Production: JOYRIDER FILMS VFX: REUBEN SUTHERLAND www.joyriderfilms.co.uk This mesmerizing clip takes on mythic proportions when you learn it was created by one man using only a digital still camera and After Effects. Director Reuben Sutherland (a Kiwi now living in London) shot the cars and the back plates on location in New Zealand. The photo-realistic Ladas were created via multi-layered stills For Festival Mushroom Records enabling them to appear 3D, then Commissioner: Matt McLeod animated and composited with the For Joyrider Films back plates in just one layer.