Thursday, July 2, 2009
Video Death Cab for Cutie - "Little Bribes"
Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:36 AM
This Death Cab for Cutie video for the song "Little Bribes" is about a month old (centuries in internet years) but I didn't see it until today (thanks for the Twitter tip, Matson), and it's really cool.
To make it, director Ross Ching says:
I pulled out every time lapse, stop motion and live action camera trick that I could think of. It took me about 2 weeks.Production of this video was fairly simple. I looked around the house for things that could spell out words and then photographed them. Most of the time I would incorporate some kind of motion into the shot to keep it interesting. However, the song has 211 different words in it and I quickly ran out of ideas. This is where things became difficult.
To keep myself sane, I printed out the lyrics and timed each word to the number of frames that I needed to take. The “accents” over each word signified that the word was completed.
Location wise, almost everything was shot in the LA area. A few shots came from my parent’s house in San Jose, but that’s it. For this one I didn’t have to travel all over the country to get unique shots. I just had to create the unique shots.
Read more about how he did it at his website, rossching.com.
Death Cab for Cutie play Marymoor Park July 18-19.
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