The This Too Shall Pass Marching Band video will be playing this weekend at the Krokowski Festiwal Filmowy. Many, many thanks to Jan Choloniewski, one of the programmers, who displayed infinite composure and patience as we fumbled to get him a hi res version in time (OK Go’s move to go independent was not without its logistical hassles). The details:
Saturday, June 5
Kijow Centrum Cinema
11:30 PM
HUZZAH!!
It’s not coalmining. Agreed. But it’s a little more complicated than just sitting in your villa on Lake Como while your personal massage team works out the kinks in your chi.
Case in point: This gent here. Brian McGovern. Star of an ad I’m working on. Did some masterful work on the prow of a mega yacht last week. But the gale force winds ruined his performance. And the client asked for a slightly different direction in tone.
So we brought him in to record new dialog over the picture we already shot. And he has to do it without the benefit of a video monitor. Because we stuck him in a parking lot to get a more outdoorsy sound.
The job — listen to the old take and speak the line again, matching exactly the rhythm and timing of the previous dialog, but using a totally different delivery and inflection. Which, it turns out, is a bit of a mindfuck.
Better than temping at CrapCom International? Sure. But easy? Hell no. Give it a try sometime.
Just got back from Miami. Whoa. That place is nutrageous. Restaurants with disco lights. Perfumed hotel lobbies. Poolside DJs at breakfast. And some very intersting fashion decisions being made by pretty much everyone everywhere all the time.
I was on a commercial shoot, and am hoping to publish some audition tips for actors at some point, but right now I’m trying to win the (artistic) heart of a thoroughly amazing Latin American pop star via video treatment, so for now, this photo of the massive yacht we used as our location on Day 1 will have to do.
Sure, sure, OK Go have another amazing vid out now. And yes, it’s for the song as the marching band vid. But no matter what happens, as the picture above *PROVES*, a genuine, honest-to-goodness MYTHBUSTER liked the marching jam first. Maybe only because the Rube Goldberg video didn’t exist yet, but let’s not nit-pick, here folks. This is cause for maximal psychedness.
The circus of pretty swell things continues: more Twitter love for the marching band vid from a bona fide internet superstar.
We made the VSL today. Good times!
My daughter was just born, and she already rules.
A friendly greeting from Sweden (from OK Go, Tore Johansson, and Jens and Petter Lindegård) regarding a somewhat huge event that transpired late yesterday. More details to follow…
Not sure if this means they’re going to play it, and not exactly sure they play videos anyway, but MTV has deemed the marching band vid “buzzworthy.”
