Wild Things: Storyboard/Final Product Comparison

We believe that our pre-production, notably our storyboards, were instrumental in creating our piece. Below we compiled a short video demonstrating some of our proposed storyboards next to the final product:

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'Wild Things' - Screening and Feedback

As part of the evaluation process for our music video we staged a screening in front of a live audience. We then conducted some interviews, using them to receive feedback from audience members.

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Wild Things Evaluation - Shot Comparison

For this post, we wanted to demonstrate the influence of Spike Jonze's 2009 adaption of Maurice Sendak's timeless children's book 'Where the Wild Things Are' upon our piece. We loved the aesthetic style of Jonze's adaptation and took inspiration from the film in the setting and some of the narrative.

An extreme close up of one the furry creatures
in 'Where the Wild Things Are'. 

A similar close up of our characters
in 'Wild Things'.

A sweeping pan from Jonze's
 'Where the Wild Things Are'.

A similar long shot of a woodland setting
from 'Wild Things'.

Wild Things: Post-Production

In the post-production stages we used Apple's Final Cut editing software to edit our film. Despite being veterans of Final Cut Express 4.0, we decided to use Final Cut X - Apple's newest incarnation of the software for the project. 

A view of our project in Final Cut X

Colour grading using the inbuilt correction software in Final Cut X

Despite our previous familiarity with Final Cut Express 4.0, using Final Cut X was in many ways a rewarding experience. The Software has many useful features like the magnet timeline, but at the same time is somewhat more linear and rigid than Express 4.0. Overall, it was beneficial to learn the ins-and-outs of a new software. 

Low Res - Wild Things: The Promotion

Our music video was also coinciding with the release of the artist's debut EP. The music video largely serves as a promotional tool for the artist (as is conventional of music releases). For this reason, we carried out extensive promotion for the video, in collaboration with the promotion carried out for the EP release. 

Screenshot of video promotion via Facebook

Peer-to-peer sharing via social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter seemed an obvious reach. We posted links to the project via the sites, encouraging others to view and share the link.

Others then shared, retweeted or favorited the link

We first tweeted out the link to followers and friends

After sharing the video via social media, we decided to send the video out to music blogs (in addition to the full EP) and also embedded the link on the artist's Bandcamp. We wanted the music video to complement the full project and work as an extension to the EP.

My email outbox - we sent the video out to independent music blogs across the internet

Low Res - Wild Things [Music Video]

The finalised video for Low Res' 'Wild Things'. Click the image to watch the video. Enjoy.

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The Banana Splits - Inspiration and Innovation

Following a discussion regarding the two animal costumes we planed to use for the video, we learnt that the suits were based on designs from the 1960/70s television program 'The Banana Splits Adventure Hour'.

Source A1

As seen below, similar characters to those in Source A1 - a screenshot from 'Wild Things' - appear in Source A2 - an image from 'The Banana Splits Adventure Hour'. 

We conducted further research on the show, and learnt the show's premise was deep routed in music, with the four main protagonists performing in the fictitious rock band of the show's namesake. 

Source A2

After scouring YouTube in search of clips of the 60s kids show, we came across this short segment from the show. From 1:57 onwards the characters appear dancing over a white background. The white background provided a clean, uncluttered canvas for us to play around with in Final Cut. We downloaded a copy of the video and began distorting the footage using various video filters.

After cutting up and testing various filters on the footage, we decided the clips could be interspersed between our footage as a homage to the original show. 

A .gif of some of the chopped and screwed footage

In regards to the question of copyright terms, our music video is strictly non-profit and gives a creative interpretation of another piece, using short 1 - 2 second samples; the piece would stand free of copyright unless requested otherwise by Time Warner, the conglomerate with ownership of the rights to the show.