Now, That's ART!

Beautiful. Pleasant. Artsy. Nikki showed me this video when she got back from KL last month and I thought it was one of the cutest stop motion video clips I've ever seen. First thing in my mind was, How long did it take to complete the video! Looks really simple but trust me, the complexity involved is mad! It is one of those happy-feel-good-make-you-smile type of video. It compliments well with the song too. The vid reminds me of the end of Adele's Chasing Pavement, my favourite song from the playlists these days. Incredibly creative use of sheets, pillows and socks. I love the part when she is walking down the stairs (pillows) and jumping from one pillow to another, swimming with the fishes (socks), in a train, hanging from a cliff, lets not forget the 'hair movement' in all the frames. With all these shots, the Israeli actress/model must be really exhausted after all that stop motion. Watch it and be impressed, be very impressed! This vid makes me want to sleepwalk.


Fun Facts:
* The video was shot all stills - roughly 3225 still photos for the entire video, using one camera, hanging from the ceiling for the main body of the movie.
* It took 4 weeks before shooting to create an animated computer generated storyboard for the video, with 3d dummies for the characters.
* It took only 2 days of shooting for the live actors on set to re-create the 3.5 minutes computer sequence, frame by frame.
* Some of the bed sheets used in the video were taken from Oren’s own bedroom and are now considered collectors items, worth at the moment not very much and therefore used as bed sheets.
*Each of the wonderfully talented people above have worked on the video for a fraction of their normal rates (except Oren who worked for his normal rate of zero).