The Eldren's sound puts me in mind of the Beatles and Elton John and maybe a little David Bowie. Something Hipster, little 70s and some 60s thrown in for good measure. All orange color-space in my mind with people dressed in vintage and with added film grain to make it authentic. Fun - oh yes fun, even ironic. Delicate but not precious. Real exact depth-of-field and rack focus.
This makes me sound all artsy-fartsy but I'm not really. This is initial impressions, mind you, which I think it's important to get down - if I wanna move past it to something else I gotta know what 'it' is I'm moving past. Of the things floating in my head here's a few that are all crowded up front:
The first is a video by Sigur Ros named Glosoli, found here: http://youtu.be/Zr_MJAOyOeU The video is interesting while moving slowly - hard to do right, that - and you get a good feeling of the music through the visuals. Plus kids - there's something modern and timeless with kids all steam-punked out. It's innocent and the audience is always voting for them to succeed in whatever they're up to.
The second is a video I remember that my cloassmate Patty Toner did where he motion-captured the film and layered text on top. It's here at his Vimeo at http://vimeo.com/20942843 (There's a better example of what I want in the opening for Red Bull's new skiing movie The Art of Flight but it's mostly in the opening and there's not footage online of that.) I like the idea of the layers of information - that it could be a video of the band, which is interesting, but then there's something else going on - I won't use the term 'subtextually' because it is literally "over text" but you know what I mean. Maybe this is the way to get a story into a traditional music video.
Third - oh, this is fun. Fun and crazy and WOWTIMESINK but really, really fun.
(notes on) biology from ornana films on Vimeo.
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