Bloc Party - One Month Off (2008)

Estamos ante un videoclip que utiliza los fantásticos cuentos de Harryhausen incluyendo digitalmente tanques, granadas y demás material bélico:



Well there were 7 years between us seems that all my friends were right
That we can’t survive on your bedroom eyes and a Spanish guitar
When we started this it was paradise, not just Bethnal green
And it’s just not right this waiting game, making a cuckold of me

I can be as cruel as you
Fighting fire with firewood
I can be as cruel as you
Fighting lies with lies
If you need time…

And it’s just not like me to lash out, but enough is enough
Tell me what the others can do that I cant
Translucent and sun bleached skin, when did you get so LA
How can you desert me after all we’ve been through
Stuck on a dream that somewhere its better
You’ll be the one missing out

I can be a cruel as you
Fighting fire with firewood
I can be as cruel as you
Fighting lies

Lies

If you need time…


La genial labor se debe a Mike y Enda, de la empresa DADDY, con quines me puse en contacto para realizarles algunas preguntillas:

1) ¿Porqué que usásteis los cuentos de hadas de Harryhausen en el videoclip?

Tuvimos esta idea general por un tiempo - alrededor de 3 años - de animar el metraje original de Harryhausen, y esta parecía la canción idónea a utilizarla. Vimos estos cuentos de hadas de oferta en un archivo de metrajes, y siendo aficionados de Harryhausen, pensamos que sería ideal comprarlos y hacer algo con ellos. Debido a la letra de la canción y demás, nos decidimos por el tema de la destrucción del mundo de fábula.


2) ¿Las pequeñas criaturas mecanicas que disparan Hansel y Gretel, son stop-motion ó CGI?

Todas son CGI - las animabamos aquí en nuestro estudio.


3) ¿Incluisteis alguna parte hecha con stop-motion?

No lo siento! - Todo es hecho con los ordenadores - se usó 3ds Max para animar y After Effects para composición.
Sólo tuvimos dos semanas y un presupuesto pequeño para crear el vídeo entero así que el tiempo era escaso!


¡Muchas gracias por las respuestas y por crear este videoclip!

Gracias a ti por el e-mail,
¡Sigue así con el blog!


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1) Why use these Harryhausen´s fairy tales to the music video?

We had this general idea for a while - about 3 years - to animate over the original Harryhausen footage. and this seemed like the right song to use this idea with. We had seen these Fairy tales for sale on a stock footage site, and being fans of Harryhausen thought it would be great to buy them and do something with them. Because of the lyrics etc we decided on the theme of destroying the fairy-tale world.


2) The little mecanic creatures that fired Hansel and Gretel, are stop motion or cgi?

They are all CGI - we animated them on here in our studio


3) Did you included any other part made with stop-motion?

No sorry! - Its all made with computers - we used 3ds max to animate and after effects to composite.
We only had two weeks and a small budget to create the whole video so time was tight!


Thanks a lot for asking and for made this music video!

Thanks for your kind email,
keep up the blog!