If you only have one shot to shoot your music video, what would you do? The following video makers and bands have restricted themselves to this this rule, resulting in explosions of creativity, as often is the case with very restricting rules. The one shot music video is now more popular then ever! Watch the … Continued
YAY! to flashy bright colors, YAY! to sun and summer and YAY! to Eindhoven Psych Lab! – the two-day music psychedelic music fest from Liverpool is setting up camp in the City Of Lights in the south of Holland on June 6 and 7. As big fans of the current trend, we could of course … Continued
It’s so refreshing to see how some creators are so infected with the docu-style virus that everything they do, whether it’s photography, ads, shorts or music videos, has to revolve around the same ideas and aesthetics. Such is the case with director and photographer Ewen Spencer. In 1997, freshly graduated from the School of Art … Continued
Heavily gendered music videos are boring. The music videos in the boy/girl department that really stand out are coming from directors who are not afraid to mix it up a little and make a brave statement about gender. Though simple and low-budget, The Knife’s ‘A Tooth for an Eye’ directed by Roxy Farhat and Kakan … 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.
Winner Takes It All… But in the case of the TAX Videoclipprijs, the runner-up steals the show! TAX Videoclipfonds awards the best music video in Netherlands Film Festival’s Online competition. Last Saturday, the jury made up from David Kleijwegt (journalist and director), Sander van de Pavert (Lucky TV), William Linders (content director for UPC), Tamara … Continued
John Mayer’s new video on 2Pause ‘Submarine Test January 1967’ is one to fall in love with. The animation is made entirely without post-production. How? Producer Virgilio Villoresi used animation techniques from the pre-cinema era, aka optical toys. Lucky for us, there are lots of music videos created with optical toys like the ombro cinema, … Continued
Two things you’re bound to find in almost every cool French music video: incredible cinematography combined with a surprise element that blows minds. Is Tropical‘s “Dancing Anymore”, directed by Megaforce, makes no exception. Offering a valuable insight into what goes on in a teenager’s mind, the video oozes gorgeousness with every shot and could easily … Continued
Wonderful! This fantastic 3-D animation integrated in a real cityscape that is just ever so gentle on the eye. Go see it now on 2Pause; then come right back here; see the making-of pictures and read the Q&A we did with creator Alain Maessen from the Dutch production studio Aap Noot Film.
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