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Uh, he’s throwing his parts.
Bring in the interns!
-Bring Lorenzo!
[Cinecom's intro music]
Hey guys, it's Jordy here for cinecom.net
and welcome to Sundays!
That's right, every Sunday we are going to upload an entertaining video
and we're gonna kick it off with a reaction series.
You know, we've done a react video a little while back
and it was a huge success.
So we're gonna do this a little bit more often.
So let's get started with this.
If you're new to the channel, by the way guys,
I'm a filmmaker for 10 years now, it's pretty long, I’m getting old.
Anyways, what we do here on the channel is recreations of visual effects, of movies
and music videos.
So that's why Yannick over there, he made a playlist for me
with music videos that we haven't recreated yet, I think,
or maybe we did.
Anyways, I'm going to try and figure out how they made the visual effects work
in their music videos
and then I'm gonna get my thoughts about it.
So let's start with it.
First, I want to say there’s a little bit a different concept to it.
You have to explain the effects but you also have to guess
from which time they are.
Okay, I like that!
Alright, let's get started with this.
Special Effects Through Time.
Can you guess the date?
I want to see some MTV music videos.
Those were the best.
A-Ha, Take On Me.
That's pretty cool.
Wow!
It's an old music video.
A-ha, from which time is that?
Early 90s?
Or end 80 somewhere.
I'm guessing the 80s.
88?
Is it 88?
1988.
-It’s not.
It's 1985.
-85?
Wow, this is pretty good, you know.
One thing is, I'm not gonna say easy,
but it's okay to make stop motion out of drawings,
so, that's okay.
But then the whole connection like here where she is taking the hand
of the scribble effects.
That is some high-end stuff.
And back then there was no After Effects
where you could draw a mask.
That’s probably how they’ve done it, it's like a real hand
and afterwards they kind of just draw the scribble lines on it.
That’s how they've done it, pretty sure about that.
The next one!
Weird Sleeper.
All right, that's just stop-motion.
I've seen that, yeah, I've seen it.
That is very well made, very well made,
a lot of work hours went into this thing.
It’s pretty simple because there are just a few pictures.
A few, a lot of pictures that you have to take.
And you kinda have to see that your motion is right,
that is important.
But, other than that, I think it's it's pretty ok.
With the pants here.
They're kind of making these exaggerated movements
which really sell the effect,
I really like it, I love it a lot.
Basically, you could make this in the early 1900s,
because it's stop-motion.
And back then you actually had stop-motion
because you had like 15 frames per second, so…
I'm gonna guess something, 98?
-What?
-2000? I don’t know.
Oh, this is pretty cool.
Wow, have you seen that?
That is so clever, so here she's falling
and then suddenly she drops into the water
and are just some bedsheets.
And then you kind of have these small little tissues around it
which represent bubbles.
I really like the detail in this music video.
Like when she's underwater now her hair is not flat anymore.
It’s kind of like floating.
It’s floating in the water and I really like that.
They've paid attention to the details, which is good.
You want to pay attention to the details.
2007?
-Cheater!
-I didn't put the dates in there!
All right the next one, Stripping To Bone.
Robbie Williams, oh!
I don't like this kind of thing.
Oh, come on, that's nasty!
I’ve never seen that music video before!
And he knows that I don't like these kind of things, he knows that.
That's actually a shirt.
I don't think there's much visual effects going on in here,
I think it's all practical.
I said that than a previous react video, as well.
If you can do something practically, do it practically.
It’s always going to turn out better in most cases.
Because with visual effects you need to have a lot of tweaking,
a lot of detail to get it look realistic.
This is again one of those examples,
don't do this with After Effects, for example,
just make like a shirt that kind of represents your skin
and then underneath that wear something that looks like like flesh.
So, yeah, I think that's probably how they've done it.
Oh, come on, he takes it further!
I've never seen this before!
And he's throwing his parts too.
Who comes up with these ideas?
Come on, who's in that meeting room saying:
‘well let's have Robbie Williams tear his own skin apart
and let him destroy his flesh all over the place.
That’s a good idea!
Well, these days it's more about sexy stuff.
Back in the MTV days there were more experimenting.
So, I'm guessing the MTV time which was the 90s.
-Give me a date.
-1, 9, 9, 8.
-Its 2000.
-Ah, two years, oh yeah!
All right, let's get to the next one.
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And now let's get back to the real next music video.
Caution: Wet Floor.
That’s what she said.
Jamiroquai, Virtual Insanity.
Okay, this is pretty cool.
What I like about this is because it's not just masking out a sofa
and then just moving it around.
No, because you can see a perspective going on in here.
First you kind of see the front of the sofa
and then when the sofa is kind of gliding over the floor
you can start seeing its back, so there's clearly a perspective going on.
Oh, he's also walking there.
Oh, I get it!
Yeah, probably like this:
it's the camera that is moving.
The camera is moving to the left and to the right
and after that they've kind of stabilized that
so that the actor or the person on black stays in the middle
and then in post-production they’ve moved him to the left and to the right,
this is complicated.
It's really weird.
Why don't you move the sofa with motion controlled…
like a motorized RC car.
You can see who does the Copy Cat effects around here.
It’s me.
Okay, it’s Yannick.
Of course!
Yeah they probably put everything on rails here
and then it kind of painted away the rails afterwards.
I was thinking about the technique that we did with the hotel rooms
where we shot this hotel room on a dolly system
and then in post-production we would stabilize that.
And that way we kind of had the hotel room in the middle
but you would kind of see this perspective
which allows us to make this infinite loop of hotel rooms.
I thought they did it this way, but apparently not.
And of course not, it's gonna be way simpler, or easier
if you would do this on rails.
-Give me the date.
-2000?
-No, it’s 96.
Everybody saw this one.
Oh yeah, OK Go.
Wow, they make some really cool music videos, guys.
Check them out on YouTube OK Go, because this is not the only one.
So, what you're seeing right here is real time although it seems like it's speed up.
-It’s real-time.
So this is the real-time shot at the music video
and after that they’ve just slowed it down.
But now pay attention to the details in this work.
Like he's holding this book so everything tells a story,
there's so much detail going on in here.
And they needed to have a ton of lights.
Because this was probably shot on a phantom or something,
like a high-speed camera so your shutter angle is going super fast.
There’s super fast shutter speed.
So you need super amount much of light.
That was a great sentence.
What I really love about this music video is that there is no special effects in there.
Only practical effects.
In essence, in theory, everyone could make this,
you don't need knowledge of technical programs.
I mean, everyone can go to the Home Depot, buy some paint buckets
put some explosives in there,
and then explode it.
If something goes wrong there, like a couple of paint buckets wouldn't explode
or like when he's flapping his book like something goes wrong there
and they re-shoot that thing,
even though it's not a long shot, it’s just three seconds or something,
but it was going to clean up that mess,
they’re like ‘hey, bring in the interns!’
-Bring Lorenzo!
-Oh, I remember that from the early days of Cinecom!
Always making coffee and cleaning up for you.
I’m still here doing that.
-Give me a date, Jordy.
-I don’t know, somewhere in the 2010 plus,
2014?
I don't know.
-Yes.
-Spot on!
they've probably shot this as well on one of these cine bots,
so it's one of those cine arms like I mentioned before,
and you would have the camera therefore could go very fast,
because you can program that thing making very fast movements.
Really cool.
Am I seeing double?
No, I see one Yannick and one Lorenzo, so far.
Oh, Nickelodeon!
This is from Nickelodeon.
I know that,
because in between the Nickelodeon videos they would play this music video.
Or the music from it.
I know the date!
19…
2000, I’m not that old.
2004?
-It’s 2003.
This is green screen, obviously.
No, it's not green screen, it's blue screen,
because they were wearing green.
You know, a fun fact right here guys, now that I'm thinking about it ,
digital cameras are more sensitive to green,
so that's why we're using green screens with digital cameras these days.
But back in the day, film cameras, film was more sensitive to blue
so therefore they would pick more often blue keys.
But of course, if you're wearing green you can't really put a green screen in there.
As far as the movement goes, they also use one of those
programmable cine bots or robot arms.
Because, as you can see here, they're making a movement
and if you're going to make multiple shots of your subject on a green screen
and putting them on top of each other,
you want to make sure that the movement stays exactly the same.
So, all in all, this is not a really hard effect to recreate,
you just need the right equipment.
It's just green screening, putting it on top of each other
and you have this thing.
It’s just like going back to those prom nights of the 70s, you know.
What is he saying?
It is that kind of feeling, it is that feeling.
-How would you know?
-I don't know, from movies.
And that’s it, guys.
Those were the music videos, really fun.
That was a great playlist, Yannick.
I really loved it.
These were some really nice things, we saw some nice visual effects,
nice practical effects.
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Stay Creative!
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Don’t sing the songs!