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| 01|17|2008 |
By Debra Kaufman
The massive number of tapes resulting from multiple 18-camera shoots of U2’s 3-hour "Vertigo" concert tour was just the beginning. The production attempted to clone the original tapes as quickly as possible. Then the edit began. And 3ality Digital Systems got into gear to solve some of stereo filmmaking's most persistent problems.... »
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| 01|17|2008 |
By Debra Kaufman
Rock groups don't get any bigger than U2, which brings along a thunderously entertaining stage show wherever it goes. Stereoscopic 3D production company 3ality traveled with the Dublin lads to several concert dates in Mexico and South America. What was the big idea? To make a 3D concert movie as intense and explosive as the band's performance.... »
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| 11|15|2007 |
By Bryant Frazer
When Dean DeBlois (best known as co-director of Lilo and Stitch) got a phone call from the manager of Sigur Ros, the Icelandic music group with the otherworldly sound, he was pitched anything but a conventional music-video project.... »
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| 06|28|2007 |
By Bryant Frazer
Director Brandon Dickerson just finished a Switchfoot music video that featured painstakingly realized "photomation" scenes — created by inkjet-printing 1224 separate frames of HVX200-captured performance footage, hand-tearing the band members out of each frame, and then re-photographing the performance, frame by frame, on a cardboard-box stage. ... »
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| 09|07|2006 |
By Debra Kaufman
Jason Pires brought his background in graphic arts to bear on rapper Jae-P’s music video “Vecino” (“Neighbor” in Spanish). Even if you can’t understand the lyrics, the images make the message known — Pires' skill as a graphic artist creates a moving and powerful counterpoint to the words.... »
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| 05|09|2006 |
By Bryant Frazer
If you've watched music television at all in the last 18 months, you've almost certainly seen a video directed by Marc Webb. His work is unified by a propulsive sense of rhythm and a consistent engagement with his artists and their audience.... »
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| 02|01|2006 |
By Sharon Kennedy
New York visual effects house Spontaneous motion-captured Bono's face so he could sing to an animated woman in a 3D environment.... »
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| 01|01|2006 |
By Alison Johns
Apple has inspired a lot of people to do a lot of things, but recently it stoked a debate about how music video directors should participate in sales of clips on iTunes as well as downloads to cellular phones... »
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| 12|01|2005 |
By Sharon Kennedy
Garage-pop band The Greenhornes debuted their first music
video, "Pattern Skies," fresh from delivering the soundtrack to Jim
Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers. Given two-and-a-half
weeks to concept, shoot, edit and animate the video, Lightborne
(Cincinatti, OH) juggled production and post.... »
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| 09|01|2005 |
By Rebecca Merle
Beck’s video "Girl" is one of those puzzles that prompts a pro to ask "How did they do that, anyway?" The challenge was to illustrate the singer’s darkly inflected but light-sounding... »
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