Videotape    27 April 2008

some great images/shots - liking the thought and philosophy underlying this Jason...will you finish it do you think?

brilliant!

Some great stuff. Sun to camera light looked wonderful. The unraveling bomber too. Final zoom out leaves you with a nice image.

Hey Jason, thanks for your positive comment! I really like your sketchy style and overall concept, especially the end instrumental bit. Suits the song, suits the atmosphere, suits the album. Suits Radiohead. Thumbs up

some more stylistic notes: will possibly find a way to tell story without such pointed ethnic/cultural cues (e.g., crosses, burkas) but possibly it's the specificities that make it more easily readable as graves, as a suicide bomber and that hopefully by bumping up more surrealistic elements it expands the discourse? Art direction wise I do want to keep images looking more sketchy, like charcoals, but richly detailed and realistically animated (the flap of the videotape, a soldier smoking in the

i thought it was a dream, but it was a song, but i was wrong, it was a video, but i was wrong again, it was a feeling of image and music...

haunting. loved the unfurling of the suicide bomber figure.

your visual motifs are so beautifully connected here. it's so haunting and beautiful. brilliant.

cool.

Continuous tracking shots are mesmerizing. Great song choice.