hi friends its adam tambakau i'm a professional video editor and after my recent rv to skusta clee
you guys have left comments to let me know about ex battalion a filipino hip-hop group
that's skusta clee has been part of and because of that they've been on my radar
for a while so today i'm gonna be checking out their music video yearly which i just found out
is completely in tagalog and doesn't actually have a cc/subtitle function so today it's
just a reaction to the music to the video and hopefully i get to pick up some tagalog words
that i've learned from you guys without further ado let's get on to this reaction
hmm so there's six of them
looks like he was just getting ready i think he's just prepping himself
the lighting in this set is beautiful
oh i love that that little shake into the flares
oh i need to watch that again that was beautifully done
camera shake flares and then back into that original scene
look at that properly at high speed so that back bit with the thunder and the clouds
that's been masked out that would take in quite a bit of work to sort of get all the
cutouts of these guys out and then have that pasted in the background but so quickly and
so precisely done that you don't even notice like the intricate work that comes through
so cool
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that little little touch at the back there if you look at the coffin it lights up in
red so quickly but it highlights the drama in this area of this sort of like horrific theme
i love it just those quick movements to sort of do the transitions
and that's all the matches that read from the coffin showing that it's
like a power coming from him
there's so much energy to it
next
that scene look at that with the water on the bottom but it's bright red and the fires but it's
not matching the top oh that is really really cool so that's another masking that they've done where
they split the scene masked the top part sort of inverted that to the bottom and then create the
fires so it looks like it's a reflection but it's completely done in post this is so nice
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and those little quick movements in the camera like this is all done
in the edit as well where it zooms into him and brings you on this journey to sort of focus
on the specific parts they want you to focus to so if you look at this
see the camera sort of punches in and comes back out and it punches in again
those sort of movements are used to create energy when the frame is sort of static almost
and that was just brilliantly used
like it feels very energetic and i'm not sure what they're saying obviously
because a lot of the words rhyme really well with each other
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so that background was all completely artificial before this is what's really happening
i've also noticed this part here on the popcorn thing that he's holding
there's a little x i'm guessing that's the logo of
x battalion it's such a simple and cool way to reinforce the brand of the band
yes
the next one
those flames
bolts of lightning
the six coffins the six members of ex battalion
creepy
you look at that that was so beautifully done they've used
the speed ramp to slow down their walk and through this when the explosion happens
so nicely done the lighting on all them as well
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oh what's going on so they're burning their coffins
is that some is that a symbol of them sort of like moving away from something
and that bit at the end i would say wasn't done in post that was actually
all done like it looks very real the fire isn't doesn't look very artificial wow
what a hot track super cool how they put all that together and i love the use of transforming a
well environment to sort of enhance it with these fires that is used as a theme throughout most of
this video and it's very clever like the fire the burning of something i don't know what the lyrics
mean but picking up what i'm getting from this music video it's about trying to throw away the
past almost or like just move on and like move on away from something and by burning it and by using
the flames it sort of allows expertise to sort of move on that's just my interpretation of it
unfortunately i don't have the advantage of the lyrics to sort of understand and go with so
i hope you took away something from that reaction as i said earlier i have made an rv disgustingly
if you want to check that out up here for dance with you or down here for karma
until next time i'll catch you guys around