Hi everyone, it's Clay. Director of video here at STEEZY.
And today we have our special guest
Hi, I'm Jordan I'm an editor. I've edited for mainstream American music videos.
Hi, my name is Jordan, I'm a professional music video editor for artists like these guys
it's a pretty extensive list.
He's kind of a big deal.
I'm just happy to be here.
Yeah, we're going to give you a dancer's perspective and a video editor's perspective of Jackson Wang's 100 ways.
Let's get into it. Let's do it.
Team Wang!
And the sound design the sound is pretty. Was that beginning portion definitely filmed on a gimbal?
Because you can see the shaking.
This is why I always recommend to do steady cams If you have it in the budget
because you don't notice that shaking. But you know gimbals are way cheaper so it's understandable.
Oh, the camera movement.
Oh my gosh!
Okey, that's enough. That isn't, that's it, I'm done!
See you later guys. That's fire.
That was one minute of pure world-building.
You felt like you were in a completely another universe
And the way that this universe is built Is through sound design and especially through that riser in the music.
If we didn't have any kind of building music. Like that we would have gotten bored throughout the entire scene.
But because there's constantly building The dance moves get faster.
There's a build throughout it all. We stay entertained the entire time.
It's interesting that they use probably foley. To emphasize the dance move.
There's probably some dude just going like...
Like they're watching the sound and just trying To emphasize all those really quick movements
And they're just like they literally take cloth And they just like move it around just to emphasize that.
I'm gonna do it for you right now I'm gonna fight the air.
Okay, here you go.
And then we got four Kinjas! They are amazing!
Which are the ones we have?
We have Anthony Lee, Zing Yuan That's bam martin and that's John Ha.
They have all taught classes on STEEZY.
No way! Every single one of them. You guys have a connect, holy fruit.
That overhead shot. That oh...
That looks like it looks like It's not a that's not a
Like in post keyframe like slide That's not actually that's just something with the camera.
That's just good directing right there.
They're not like tutting.
You know like tutting is like When you're like I'm making these angles
And all these crazy things, they're not trying to do that. They're literally like playing with like Naruto like Ninjutsu .
And making these symbols and just doing it Where it feels powerful and effective.
But it doesn't have to follow necessarily A specific style and dance, let's go bam.
Oh. put it inside, oh. put it in front. What are they summoning?
I'm assuming - a dead person. I don't know.
Why they're in a graveyard? Like this is creepy.
And the way that the sound just cuts out Gives you the moment.
So in this story Jackson has an opportunity
To be with his lover That he wasn't able to be with in his first life.
So, he literally just got raised from the dead. And we'll see how he conquers time to be with his lover.
This is so clean bro.
All right, the thing that I'm shook with the most Is just the directing of the camera.
First of all, they choreographed this entire scene, right?
And then the director was like Okay, how do I capture this choreo in the most like clean way possible.
So, all of those little movements they did Little pans little tilts to capture the energy of all the choreo.
That was so freaking good, I think there's like two directors
That i know that kind of do this or two like groups.
One of them I know Daniel "Cloud" Campos. He does a lot of these like know camera tracks because he's a dancer.
Amazing dancer. And he always follows the choreography.
But i also know the people that are in our scene In the dance realm which are like VIBRANCY
Who are also amazing videographers and creatives. And Jackson Wang obviously respects dance - is a great dancer.
I love that the sound design is continuing Throughout the song too.
Because most in most music videos People don't want you messing with the music.
And so they want the song to be completely pure No sound design in it.
But we're continuing to build out the world By hearing the trees fall hearing all kinds of ambient sounds.
Is he about to raise his lost love from the dead? Is this just a zombie movie?
He's definitely gonna raise his lover through dance.
What dance move would raise somebody from the dead?
I think there's something interesting about this Because they're doing a lot of movements
To not very clear like beats. You know, like I think a lot of music
That you're choreographing such like sharp
Like you would hear those sound effects You would hear that as a part of the music.
But in this case, they're sort of filling space with that. And I don't think that's an easy thing to choreograph it.
You just have to get really good at counts.
You know you don't count like musical counts. Right I have five-six...
You're a drummer, right? I'm a drummer so that's pretty embarrassing that I just did that.
But having rhythm and like counting helps so much with editing
With any kind of filmmaking dancing all of it it's helpful. Absolutely.
So, it turns out that most people watch that section Of the video over and over and over.
And that's because it was in one shot it wasn't edited It wasn't cut up it was completely real.
That's the thing when you edit You're telling the audience a lie because you're cutting
And you're trying to hide something So when you don't cut it makes everything way more impressive.
Bro, I come out the grave looking like that
It's over fans. Jordina has come to play not like that but, you know.
The cuts are so clean.
It's so clean. Every cut is so intentional and feels perfectly correct.
Wait... Are they like going to the grave together? He's going down, right?
That was a trip. That was a journey we just went on.
I have never watched this video in the past.
I watched a portion of it. But I only really noticed the dancing.
It is actually really cool to see this story happening. The story is fascinating
And I love how the story is told through the dancing.
That's the coolest part to me. If I think about this whole thing minus the dancing.
You're gonna have to do a lot of gimmicks. If you think about the order of the video, right.
It's like people there summoning, awaken - walk Walk to a new place - dead person.
Rise, rise, love, dead person I think that's the really interesting function of dance.
And how so little has to be said. So little has to happen all the emotions within the dance.
All the emotion in the dance through the power of each movement That's able to sell and extend the story.
And actually enrich it. I think that's a really special thing, Kinja just did an amazing job.
That was the "100 Ways" by Jackson Wang And we're so glad you watched this video.
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Because we did another video on his page. BTS on "Kinetic Manifesto". you don't want to miss it.
You don't want to miss it. We'll see in the next one, peaces.