Video Autopsy: “MEW” music vid

JPNola

JPNola

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Okay gang. I may have just started a new thing here on DVX. Examination of video and discussion of the techniques employed in the cinematography.

What tricks / techniques are going on in this music video?:


I am particularly curious about the vibrating image effect. You think it is all done in post or did they actually have something vibrating the camera ( organically )?

I figure the stepped-zooming or “stutter zoom” is certainly a post process.

The music isn’t my cup of tea. But I think the video combines and blends several stylistic techniques well and the look fits the style of music.
 
In no particular order:

- Speed ramping
- Blur transitions
- Manual cutting of frames out of footage and stitching them back together (essentially creating dropped frames on purpose)
- Post or practical light flickers (although post light flickers are heavily used in music videos)
- Shutter speed experimentation
- Reverse playback
- Smooth crash zooms (possibly in post)
- Would have also said using a stills camera for video motion capture here and there, but it's too old
- Obviously post-production with the bees
 
JPNola said:
I am particularly curious about the vibrating image effect. You think it is all done in post or did they actually have something vibrating the camera ( organically )?
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It looks to me like it was done in post-- just something about the nature of the movement. But I don't know what tools would have been available at the time-- as simple as animating a crop of the frame in FCP, or something built for this kind of effect?
 
The effect is similar to the look of dropped frames, so it could have been done using the method above, or was maybe shot on a global or fast rolling shutter system and moved around (or handled on a vibrating platform).

It says the song is from 2003 so it's most likely film.
 
JPNola said:
I am particularly curious about the vibrating image effect. You think it is all done in post or did they actually have something vibrating the camera ( organically )?

I figure the stepped-zooming or “stutter zoom” is certainly a post process.
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Shake (Nothing Real/ Apple at the time when video was released) was quite popular then.

As the name of software suggests, it was used extensively (among other things) for that.
It had advantage over other compositing systems when working with high resolution images.

Later it was discontinued, but was also offered some time as companion for Final Cut Studio.
 
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