Krafty video will start its career next monday

lossless wrote:

Originally posted by francois-marc loze The concept with the non-stop camera movements reminds me a LOT of Pulp's "Do You Remember the First Time?"

yes i thought the same too. another one that uses the device is the sundays and their summertime video. you can watch summertime here, but you'll need a yahoo reg.

http://music.yahoo.com/ar-265645---The-Sundays

i just remembered that for both the pulp and the sundays videos, the sweeping / looping camera motion is restricted to the vertical - where the whole world turns upside down. the krafty video mixes in other ranges of camera motion. so, still similar idea, but expanded.

Didn't The Pixies do one even earlier? Set in a old empty house, I think.

thank you lossless, i was almost giving up for getting the complete video...

Originally posted by Hank Wiseass© > > lossless wrote:> > > > Originally posted by francois-marc loze> > The concept with the non-stop camera movements reminds me a LOT of Pulp's "Do You Remember the First Time?">

yes i thought the same too. another one that uses the device is the sundays and their summertime video. you can watch summertime here, but you'll need a yahoo reg.

http://music.yahoo.com/ar-265645---The-Sundays

i just remembered that for both the pulp and the sundays videos, the sweeping / looping camera motion is restricted to the vertical - where the whole world turns upside down. the krafty video mixes in other ranges of camera motion. so, still similar idea, but expanded.

Didn't The Pixies do one even earlier? Set in a old empty house, I think. pixies? i don't recall that one. empty house... monkey gone to heaven maybe? see pixies videos.

i didn't re-watch all of the ones from the above link, but i scanned them, and i don't think there's one with krafty-style camera movement.

Yeah, big up to Lossless.

I was screaming along at about 3fps on the stream site.

Feedback? Well it's an expertly shot vid with a positive vibe about the indomitable human spirit, ya-de-ya. Cool to watch a couple of times and the narrative follows the lyrics fairly predictably. Urban Scandinavian(?) love story. Nothing groundbreaking.

I do wonder now what route they'll take for the J-E-T video. If they're really gonna milk it they need to get Ana Matronic in a hotel room in Miami or somewhere, split-screen duetting with Barney and the lads (soft focus, baggy clothers and sunnies please) in an airplane or UK air terminal or something. Camp it up. I can see it now. But no dancing from the UK end... Hmmm... Or would the site of the lads just scare the kids off?

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I like the camera work, but this is a lame video.

A big problem is that the actors are unwatchable. They are hideous, emaciated, and can't kiss to save their lives. Worst kissing I have ever seen! And honestly, kids, eat a Twinkie.

I would have gone with a much brighter video... The colors were all wrong. It is a bloody peppy, upbeat song, and it needed some bright greens and blues. I could think of several better treatments off the top of my head. I wonder how these directors get their jobs!

Originally posted by lossless i'm hosting the hi-res 27mb version on my site for a short time:http://lossless.blogs.com/main/2005/02/new_order_kraft.htmlspotnick - if this sort of file sharing is frowned upon (trouble from record company, etc.), please delete this post. i didn't post a direct link to the clip, but maybe that doesn't fix everything. thanks.

Cheers mate...

Hank Wiseass© wrote: Reminds me a bit of the Round & Round one.

Fair enough... and R&R is the

worst.

video.

ever.

:)

Originally posted by Thataboy I like the camera work, but this is a lame video.A big problem is that the actors are unwatchable. They are hideous, emaciated, and can't kiss to save their lives. Worst kissing I have ever seen! And honestly, kids, eat a Twinkie.I would have gone with a much brighter video... The colors were all wrong. It is a bloody peppy, upbeat song, and it needed some bright greens and blues. I could think of several better treatments off the top of my head. I wonder how these directors get their jobs!

Sounds like you want your MTV.

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Originally posted by Dubya's Little Helper Erm...may I say taht I thought this video SUCKED!!!Oh well...good thing I don't intend on watching MTV or VH1 that much!

Sucked? Absolute garbage. I never thought 60MPH would be a better video than this.

I just want a video that actually considers the tone of the song. This video is static, ugly (outside of the camera work), and uninteresting.

Looks like a good video for VH1 :barf:

Also if they were going to make a song about people fucking, why not choose a better looking couple. Looks like two lame Brits to me

I'd recommend downloading the High Quality video provided by lossless, then playing it in the BSplayer video player. You can adjust the color and aspect ratio of the video, so it looks very high quality. It does look a little dingy otherwise.

JK

Is the lack of the band in the video perhaps eased by the fact that the principals were "playing hooky" from work?

Er....that was real...um....hmmmmm.

It did look like a safe sex campaign. Oh, and look what we can do with the camera--pretty neat, huh? (Actually, I liked some of the more disorienting shots.) It wasn't THAT bad until they went up to roof after, you know--like breeding--and started pogoing around like glue-sniffers (or Bez at his finest). To its merits, the girlie in it didn't look that shabby, and the fella looks a bit like me!

New Order go commercial:

First Sunkist, now Trojan condoms.

New Order go commercial:

First Sunkist, now Trojan condoms.

I presume the location and the kids are meant to be in the former soviet bloc about ten years ago, right?

It's all been done before, but I quite like it. It fits the song well and has made me think about something other than the travesty of the chorus.

Of course it promotes safe sex. She keeps her pants on...

Damn, i'm somewhat disappointed.  At least they made a video I guess.  Those two certainly seem elated that they were able to do the deed there.

Maybe the video would have been better if it starred John Simm and the Nicolette Krebitz.  With John lip-syncing throughout the entire video, the entire video.

Now give me the link so I could download that real player

As bad as the new record appears, the Krafty video is quite good... not sure if music fans grasp exactly what is being said about them in this video, but to me its a pretty clear statement about how sensual indulgences (music, sex) keep people quietly doing what they are told and that those escapes ultimately limit their lives... as long as your heads are in the clouds, your life stays firmly in the gutter... its such a 180 degree turn from the punk idea of questioning everything and living your life in an examined way... Ian Curis may have worked in a factory, but he was daydreaming about a fantastic life, and fantastic work... not just getting head later that evening (ok he was probably thinking of that too)...

As with Madonnas' Holiday, this video both provides the pleasure of escape with an indictment of that escape at the same time... ah the thrills of pop!

Ajw

Welcome to the firing line, AJ.

One of the few WFTSC dissenters!

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AJ Wells wrote: As bad as the new record appears, the Krafty video is quite good... not sure if music fans grasp exactly what is being said about them in this video, but to me its a pretty clear statement about how sensual indulgences (music, sex) keep people quietly doing what they are told and that those escapes ultimately limit their lives... as long as your heads are in the clouds, your life

Well then I suppose I didn't get it. If you listen to the lyrics of the song, it sounds more like a an ode to the common man...something well beyond the members of New Order at this point, I should mention. The video seemed to suggest-as well as the lyrics--that as long as you have love, it doesn't matter where you start from, you always have hope for something better.

JK

'Shock value'. 'So-so song, let's get a bit more coverage with a "controversial(ish)" video'.

Originally posted by Tristan Also if they were going to make a song about people fucking, why not choose a better looking couple.

Absolutely. The lad looks as though a pan of scouse would kill him.

Originally posted by PHD > Originally posted by Tristan> Also if they were going to make a song about people fucking, why not choose a better looking couple.

Absolutely. The lad looks as though a pan of scouse would kill him.

Mmmmmmmm, scouse.