A couple of months ago we told you about Genero.tv’s amazing, one-of-a-kind challenge that invited filmmakers to create and submit their own interactive music video for tracks from either Damon Albarn, Aloe Blacc or Ellie Goulding. The submitted videos were to use Interlude – a platform that makes it easier for filmmakers to create interactive … Continued
While we salute Linkin Park’s love for interaction by including this option again in one of their music videos, they are once more not 100% original in their design. Making promos as interactive games that users needs to navigate through is certainly not a fresh concept, but the famous rock band have given it an … Continued
When Bob Dylan’s interactive video ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ went viral last November, it was very clear that interactive music videos were on the march. And with the latest brilliant entries from Aloe Blacc and Night Bus, it’s unstoppable. With the aid of interactive video-making tool, Interlude Treehouse, everybody’s doing it, or is at least … Continued
We’ll be honest: when it comes to interactive music videos, we like to experience everything first hand, even if – as in this case – that involves allowing them to hack into our Facebook accounts, reading and interpreting data released by us on social media platforms, posting things on our behalf and basically committing what … Continued
Just as the world was ready to crown Arcade Fire “Kings of Interactive Music Videos” the band goes old school linear with their recent promos for Afterlife. Or did they? It might seem that way, but the three promos by three different directors appear to be strongly inter-connected. The lyric music video of Afterlife is … Continued
Let 2Pause take you on a sentimental journey through 2013 in music videos, the year of crappy 3D video game animations, retro science fiction, pre-cinema animations and the big bang of interactive music videos. These are the 5 best music videos of 2013.
We’ve all seen music videos produced in a documentary style but ‘Hidden Wounds’ is a whole new experience. Made by director Tomas Kaan and creative producer Arnold van Bruggen, it’s inspired by a dEUS song of the same name and it manages to creep under your skin like nothing else. We spoke to Tomas Kaan about the … Continued
There’s been a real peak in interactive music videos made with user generated content (UGC), pulled from different social media platforms. Talking about a niche! Here’s a little overview of the best ones yet, all selected by our music video heaven 2Pause.
Facebook much? Well, here’s an interactive music video that will make you re-think your relationship with the world wide web. Facehawk, directed by Rajeev Basu for Big Data, reflects on voyeurism in the digital age. Replicating the Facebook environment (but without actually posting on Facebook) the interactive promo serves as a reminder that it’s not … Continued
Watch carefully, because you can only see this interactive music video once! Read the full article on 2Pause That’s because the promo for Califone, made by Braden King randomly creates, and re-creates itself from a series of images and animated GIFs gathered from a curated set of Tumblr blogs. This is how it works. Upon … Continued
Submarine Channel