How did they do this?! Very cool music video...

That was cool. Great song too.

Looks as though they used a digital SLR camera with a long exposure to capture the movement of lights (the trail effect). One frame at a time. But some of the light trails looked like they were created in post. Not sure. If not that sure took A LOT of work.

Great video.
 
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Impressive.
Especially liked the two guys playing ping pong.

Damn that looked like alot of work -
they must have started this video in 2002.
:)
 
I'll find the site where all the Japanese people are doing this for fun like daily. I can't remember where it is.
 
at first. I thought it could have been done with those light tubes people use at trance or raves, just he got longer ones. or just something like that, since it was all stop motion. But wen gthe band started to paly, it seemed like it was post production. im sure there is a tool of final cut or avid that allows u to render those effects.
 
While I believe it's possible that some of the effects were done in post, I'm fairly certain a bulk of it was done "for real". Since the people controlling the lights in the BG are preforming the actions that they would need to have the effect done "in-camera", it doesn't make sense that they would go and do the light effect in post. Why double the work? It's also possible (although highly unlikely) that they shot with a 16mm or 35mm movie camera, simply utilizing a long exposure. A DSLR would give the same effect too. The wide shot of the band with all the stuff going on in the BG was done in camera, no doubt. The depth of the shot and the general random-ness are giveaways to this. It would be incredibly easy to do this at the time of exposure (3 or 4 minutes of work) rather than having to do it in post (substantially longer to get right). Plus, if you watch it frame by frame, notice that many frames stay up for 4 frames or more, which is a stop-motion animators trick (to save work). Amazingly cool video, I can't wait to try it myself.

NOTE: I just went and watched it again, it was indeed a DSLR! You can see several of them on tripods during the wide shot of the whole band playing. Woo hoo! Time for me to make another impulse buy!
 
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could it have omething to do with the lens? or how about the fram rate or shutter speed. i know with digital cameras u can put them on a mode that can achieve things like this.
 
A DVXuser member submitted a photo for the Photo Challenge last year that used the same technique.

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You can see a ghostly image of the man moving the flashlight around.
 
Not really filmed. They just used a highend digital still camera. You can create the same effect using your own digital camera (if it allows for long exposures). Then you take those thousands of single images and slap them together in Vegas or Premiere or even Windows Movie Maker. It's like stop-motion animation or a flipbook. It's A LOT of work! But that video did it VERY well. One of the best.
 
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i knew it was done with ad igital camera!!!
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Just for the record, it could have been done with film. It's just more likely that it was digital; logistically it makes more sense.
 
Fantastic Music Video!

I learned how to do all that in a photography course a few years ago. PK Gillock was correct in his initial response, as it's all about leaving your shutter open for a long exposure, then taking a small light and going crazy. Definitely a lot of work to do the entire MV, but it's not as hard as it seems.

LOVE that video, though. Very original, flowed well, and a great song to boot.

-brown
 
I too would like to know the name of the band. And this video flat out blows me away. How long did this take. How much planning would have to go into that?
 
artist: The Willowz
song: "Jubilee"
label: Dim Mak
director(s): Toben Seymour
dp: Ross Riege
editor: Ryan Bartley
 
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