I’ve been doing two types of video projects recently: working as 1st AD on music videos for the Creato-Destructo team, and helming more straightforward interview clips for higher-education clients, including a Boston-based law school and, coincidentally, a Long Island-based law school.
I’ve been glad to do all of it. Although some of my more creative colleagues suggested my sensibilities have been growing more documentary-like, even more literal and realistic (as opposed, I think, to more poetic and figurative).
First, nice work if you can get the poetic/figurative stuff.
Second, I finally broke out with something completely abstract based on last week’s schedule. Because I could, I did — and I especially wanted to emphasize motion, playing off grayscale and light-dark.
Beyond that, it also gave me the chance to delve into licensing through Creative Commons. The music is “At A Distance” by Matmos, and falls under the Sampling Plus license.
Let me know what you think. Although I’m not pushing ideas with this, more like emotional responses.
Nearly all this was done in-camera, meaning I didn’t add any effects or other post-production features, apart from the title and the music. Even the last “white” piece was in-camera.
And to go full nerd again, the video’s title is a reference to quantum entanglement, which Albert Einstein famously described/derided as “spooky action at a distance”.
James Hyatt 