This site is great. You can create really short movies really quickly. You type out your script and it says it back in a Stephen Hawkin esc voice. That alone is pretty funny, but it gets even better when you start adding camera angles, hand gestures and emotions.
Waste two hours doing it. It's worth it.
The example above is a bit of a parody on the art director. Have a go here
Bit of a milestone today. 200 posts since we started this blog.
Woop Woop!
So, to celebrate here's a link to a slide show called '87 cool things' from google. It's worth a look as there are loads of interesting ways people have been using google's API. It's application mash-up heaven!
I'm quite taken back by The Editors use of google street view to promote their new album.
There are various points to click on a google map. Each position relates to an area that inspired a song on the album. When you reach a specific point in Street View a special arrow appears, and takes you to a night scene involving the band. The Street View scene with the Editors still uses the same Street View navigation to explore it, which makes the whole experience mesh together nicely. Now i'm not a huge fan of the band. But, it is nice to hear the song playing as you look around the area which it was written about.
It's about time another band challenged Radiohead for thinking of new, interesting, ideas and channels to promote an album.
I take my digital hats off to The Editors for trying something new and all the dev team that made it happen!
The new film 'The Expendables' from Sly Stallone has just had it's first trailer released.
i'm not sure if the trailer is meant to be badly edited to get across some 80s action man nostalgia. It seems to give away a lot of the action, and to be honest that's all this film seems to have going for it. The plot seems to be a minor detail here.
What's great about music videos is how creative they always are. They don't have to have too much message take out apart from...'that was cool!"
There's a great scene in Almost Famous (Directed by Cameron Crowe) where the guitarist Russell Hammond says to the young wannabe reporter William Miller "Just make us look cool."
i think that's essentially what Musicians want from their promotional stuff. Wouldn't advertising be simpler if clients were the same!
