The Intellectual Ferment
Music Videos
I have made two music videos for local band The Intellectual Ferment, and am planning a third. They don't like to be categorized (they call themselves "regressive rock"), but you can tell they have some psychadelic influences, so that's what I went for with both thesse videos. I wanted treats for the eyes: lots of color, motion, and a frenetic pace to keep up with their music.
I have made two music videos for local band The Intellectual Ferment, and am planning a third. They don't like to be categorized (they call themselves "regressive rock"), but you can tell they have some psychadelic influences, so that's what I went for with both thesse videos. I wanted treats for the eyes: lots of color, motion, and a frenetic pace to keep up with their music.
I shot this at 16fps to give it that choppy, 70s look. Then, I edited my first draft of the video. I exported each clip from my first draft individually and used another program to remove every I-frame after the first one. Next, I used another program to “mosh” the clips together. I varying techniques to get special effects like the ones at :54 and 1:36. This new version of the video was placed on top of my first draft as a dodge mask. This is where all the ghosting comes from. I did a little tweaking to make everything line up how I wanted, and the final product is the trippy, glitchy, psychedelic video you see above.
This is the second video I’ve made for the Intellectual Ferment. I tried to make weird, psychedelic videos for them because that somewhat embodies their style, both musically and in general.
I shot this one on my HMC-150 rather than the GH2 because I prefer the colors I can get from. I knew I wasn’t going to have as much leeway without all the crazy, manual effects of the other video, and I wanted something that “popped” right out of the camera. Of course, I did push the colors and crush the blacks a little to make it crisper, but this is almost straight off my camera.
I also love doing in-camera effects (check out my HITS 106 ad; the focus-shift transition is all in-camera), and I’ve been experimenting to find new stuff I can do in-camera. The zooming technique was meant to be an homage to cheesy 60s and 70s films, but as I was doing it, I started seeing these crazy warping effects if I timed it right, so I started to focus on that. The best part is when I shift from Caleb to Wayland around 1:40. It creates something like a tilt-shift effect and makes whatever’s in the center of the frame seem huge.
As the song is about infrastructure, I wanted to include footage of all the things they sang about during the chorus. Going with the old-timey theme, I searched the Internet Archive for public domain films of old, and found The Miracle on the Delaware from 1955. It had everything I needed and it looked just as grainy and faded as I had imagined. It was perfect.
