Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Another One Rides The Bus - Artist Statement



This is a music video me and my partner had to make. We picked Another One Rides The Bus by Weird Al Yankovic. We had many ideas for how to do it, and our first idea was to just use the TTC busses, but we figured that they wouldn't agree to us doing a music video there. We decided after that to build a model bus from cardboard and bring our friends to help act and make the video, but weren't sure how to make that efficently and keep it all working. We even considered using pets like my dogs and cats as actors or at least characters in the video, but that changed when we decided to make a much smaller mini bus with pipe cleaner characters. We tried to put the bus on a model race track with one of the model cars so it would look like it was driving, but when that didn't work we just decided to shoot a quick video of the model cars, and do the rest of the video in stop motion.
What I didn't like about this video was the fact that many of the photos ended up blurry and the camera was too shaky for an accurate shot, because the set was built on the floor and our tripod wouldn't sit as low as we needed.
My favorite part of this video was right at the end with the main character dancing. It didn't turn out exactly as I'd expected, but it was still cute.

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