See an Awesomely Psychedelic Music Video Made From 5016 ... - Wired News (blog) |
| See an Awesomely Psychedelic Music Video Made From 5016 ... - Wired News (blog) Posted: 21 Jun 2012 02:06 PM PDT DIY music videos made on iPhones are awesome. (Well, sometimes.) But the obsessive director of Trumpeter Swan's "Fools Parade" clip went above and beyond, using the go-to gadget to shoot the video and handle visual effects. Jeff Turboff captured imagery on an iPhone and then passed each individual frame — all 5,016 of them — through PhotoTropedelic, an app that adds 1960s pop-art flair to smartphone images. "Fools Parade" turned out so acid-trippy amazing that even the app's creator was impressed. "When I first saw the 'Fools Parade' music video, I felt like a cartoon character getting hit over the head with an oversized frying pan, complete with stars circling around my stunned head," Larry Weinberg said in an email to Wired. "I had some notions that the images from PhotoTropedelic could be used for compelling animation, but I was not prepared for what Jeff pulled off for this video." He's right. The clip looks like something made using a crazy visual effects video editor, but it's actually much more complicated than that.
"I shot the video using the iPhone 4S 1080p camera in a tiny music studio practice space with about 120 square feet of room for lights, camera and performers," Turboff said in an email to Wired. "I offloaded footage from the phone to a laptop on-set in order to clear off room on the phone and keep shooting." Believe it or not, that was the easy part. After the shoot, Turboff, who works as an editor for ABC News' Nightline, cut together the video into a sequence that Trumpeter Swan approved of and set about breaking the video into stills to be converted. Then, over the course of many days, he uploaded the photos to Dropbox, downloaded them to his iPhone and processed each one individually in PhotoTropedelic. "The time involved in treating the video with PhotoTropedelic was around 30 to 45 minutes per second of video," Turboff said. "Altogether I'd guess I put in about 200 hours of post-production." That's a ton of work for a three-and-a-half-minute video for a catchy indie rock song. But Trumpeter Swan's Drew Patrizi (formerly of indie rock outfit What Made Milwaukee Famous) said he was pleased. "I have no idea what inspired Jeff to do this — luckily for him carpal tunnel did not set in — and luckily for Trumpeter Swan the end result was fantastic," Patrizi wrote in a post about the video. Here's where to go if you want to see more of Patrizi's work or get more Trumpeter Swan. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks. |
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