Music Video Musings: super ☆ business ☆ dancing ☆ night

So, previously I have only talked about professional music videos, and I am a big fan of passion projects and fan works, so I wanted to feature this simple but fundamentally awesome piece by one rob gilliam (here is their youtube channel)

In the description rob talks about this being a short term assignment for a class and while the piece is bare bones in nature, I think that is where some of the magic of it lies.

As piece it uses alot of visual shorf hand to convey way more than you would think.

From the first shot the story of bored office worker is immediately understood form the water cooler and the drab grays.

The unassuming cubicle citizen shows their flair for the drama in their reveal of brightly colored lips and blazing blue eyes.

And the music stays steady in it's passion as the dancer just puts his full heart into feel the music.

The piece really pushes it self into fantasy with the sudden flip into golden hotpants and the journey shown in the montage of unrelenting jive, and even if the ending leaves us with a sense of it all been a self soothing daydream, the workers smile of self satisfaction gives it an odd truth.

Also noting excellent color design with the grays of the office and the dramatic reveals of the workers red lip, blue eyes, and golden hot pants, and in general I think there is alot to praise about how efficent but fresh feeling alot of the loops in the dance are, and I think that works for the audience because of the misleading but amusing nature of the apparent premise of a bored office worker.

It's just such a playful piece and really gets caught in you head, and when it came out 5 years ago I remember it giving me a similar sense of joy now as it did then.

I actually think comparing it to the slower paced live action music video for the original song by Modjo - Lady (hear me tonight) can help give a real sense of what visuals framing/remixing can do to a song, so it will include it here;

Thanks for reading, tty'alll.