PhaRREL wIlliams 24 hour video

I like it (the 4 min video), and the concept of a 24 video, too.
Everybody, including all of the dancing extras get their own entire take of the song, what's not to like?

The shallow DOF/blurring BG is a bit much (blurring trademarked products and signs?), and it seems too soft at many points and blown out in the day (the "Happy"-ness of bright exteriors?), but so what???

You don't like-
The 24 hour video (because you watched all of it?)
The idea of a 24 hour long music video?
The 4 minute music video?
The photography?
The concept?
The execution?
You feel compelled to play the contrarian here?
or what?

You like the song, but why not the video?

I left the song and video smiling, and yes, "Happy"...
Forget viral, it made me happy, so I consider it a success. I got no time for Scrooges here...
(now excuse me while I click on the "happy" emoticon...) :happy:

"Happy" Day After Thanksgiving!
 
groveChuck said:
I like it (the 4 min video), and the concept of a 24 video, too.
Everybody, including all of the dancing extras get their own entire take of the song, what's not to like?

The shallow DOF/blurring BG is a bit much (blurring trademarked products and signs?), and it seems too soft at many points and blown out in the day (the "Happy"-ness of bright exteriors?), but so what???

You don't like-
The 24 hour video (because you watched all of it?)
The idea of a 24 hour long music video?
The 4 minute music video?
The photography?
The concept?
The execution?
You feel compelled to play the contrarian here?
or what?

You like the song, but why not the video?

I left the song and video smiling, and yes, "Happy"...
Forget viral, it made me happy, so I consider it a success. I got no time for Scrooges here...
(now excuse me while I click on the "happy" emoticon...) :happy:

"Happy" Day After Thanksgiving!
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I didn't say I disliked it, just that 24 hours of the same song doesn't appeal to me. There is no reason I would go, oh wow, 24 hours of the same song!, and in fact I looked because it's a novelty, but after scanning through the 24 hours in about a minute, I didn't see anything to make me want to look into it further.

I can't find the article now but I read it was shot on an arri and it's soft in spots because they did everything, or almost everything, on a steady cam and in only one take, and shot all 24 hours in 11 days, so it was kinda run and gun.
 
I don't get it. I truly don't. It seems like more of a gimmick (yes, a "novelty") to me than anything else and I have no interest in watching any of it (beyond the 30 seconds I did watch).

If a recording artist came to me and proposed such a thing, I would only be able to reply - "Why?"

I believe this is yet another case of the novelty aspect of the project superseding the actual content. Remember the first Instagram music video? I've heard about it but I haven't actually seen it.
 
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I have no interest in watching any of it (beyond the 30 seconds I did watch).
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+1

If I'm missing something groundbreaking, it's only because those initial 30 seconds bored the crap out of me. (Except for the Minions!)
Who would honestly have time to watch a 24 hour video? Especially in 2013?
 
Haters.

:happy:

It's an ambitious thing to undertake something of this scale. Dig around on the site http://24hoursofhappy.com and you'll see that it's actually an interesting art project if you take it as a whole. Skip around, and you'll see that the interface that they built for it is pretty damn impressive too. Not my favorite song and the lost focus is a little annoying, but overall I'm really impressed that they pulled this off and I enjoyed spending some time exploring the video.
 
groveChuck said:
I like it (the 4 min video), and the concept of a 24 video, too.
Everybody, including all of the dancing extras get their own entire take of the song, what's not to like?

The shallow DOF/blurring BG is a bit much (blurring trademarked products and signs?), and it seems too soft at many points and blown out in the day (the "Happy"-ness of bright exteriors?), but so what???

....
I left the song and video smiling, and yes, "Happy"...
Forget viral, it made me happy, so I consider it a success. I got no time for Scrooges here...
(now excuse me while I click on the "happy" emoticon...)
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"Happy" Day After Thanksgiving!
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DITTO….and…

Andrius Simutis said:
Haters.



It's an ambitious thing to undertake something of this scale. Dig around on the site http://24hoursofhappy.com and you'll see that it's actually an interesting art project if you take it as a whole. Skip around, and you'll see that the interface that they built for it is pretty damn impressive too. Not my favorite song and the lost focus is a little annoying, but overall I'm really impressed that they pulled this off and I enjoyed spending some time exploring the video.
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DITTO!!

The problem with some folks is that they just won't give it a chance. I think I've managed to scroll thru a lot of the videos. Matter of fact it won't be so difficult to mash up a lot of them in your own NLE and make a brand new video from scratch. I'm sure someone is doing that as we speak. Very Cool Concept.
 
Haters.
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I'd be insulted if it wasn't true.

It's tough to grow old and lose touch with what's cool. (do you kids still use the word 'cool?')
If I think it's stupid, they're probably doing something right.
 
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