The Song of the Day: Film School 101
06/22: Song of the Day. Vampire Weekend–Oxford Comma
Today’s Song of the Day highlights a couple aspects of the music video. First off, this brand new music video from current indie-rock darlings Vampire Weekend just debuted on MTV. I find this interesting because I didn’t know that MTV still showed music videos?!?
Now that I’ve gotten over the initial MTV shock, I can concentrate on what I really like about this new video; which is that it’s shot in one long tracking shot. From start to finish, there is no cut, no editing, and no change of camera. Just one long, continuous camera shot with all the action put to film in a single take. (Although I read that it took 17 attempts before getting the whole thing choreographed just so). Technically these aren’t the easiest shots in the world to pull off, although modern advances such as Steadicam have definitely aided directors in making it look easy.
All in all, a well done video and I’m not even going to deduct points for the director’s decision to show the dolly tracks used during the video’s last sequence. And oh yeah, the song ain’t bad either. The video for Vampire Weekend’s “Oxford Comma” is after the jump. Thoughts anyone?
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