My Favorite Music Videos from Class

     Out of all the various forms of media that I watch, I must confess, music videos are not really something I've seen a lot of. I generally don't like the mainstream types of music, or any type of music with lyrics as lyrics just don't resonate with me. Even if I may not have cared about the songs though, the videos shown in class I thought were mostly pretty awesome. Here is my personal top three list.

     Number 3: "Sometimes the Stars"

What I liked most about this video was its animation quality and style. The simple, kind of of cute, character designs coupled with the gloomy atmosphere created a bittersweet vibe throughout the piece, and made for a near instant connection with me. The animation was also butter smooth.

     Number 2: "Simple Math"

 The song in this film was OK, but what was really compelling to me was the way that this video visually represents the story unfolding; the way that the memory scenes were presented as fragmented and skewed by the crash unfolding, like using the deer head, the image of the liquid in the glass tilting, and the foreboding rumbling as kind of a reality check,  was great. The transitions between memory and reality were even better, but out of all the shots in this piece, I think my favorite is when the man flies out of the car and rolls along the street with the camera tumbling beside him. That was an excellent camera choice. My one critique of this video is that I don't think the lip-syncing to the song was necessary.

     Number 1: "Allaxis"

This music video kind of has the same general theme as the previous, however the way in which the theme is visually presented is completely different and equally awesome. Both shorts involve persons having flashbacks while driving cars, but this piece represents the story in a more abstract way, the memory is represented as a passenger in the car morphing into different people, but blurring the details in an onslaught of pop-culture like images. This piece also has a tragic end as opposed to the previous's redemptive end.  Probably the only thing that puts this video above the other is my personal preference for music without words, and my bias to animation.