A few months ago I wrote a piece on the video for Passion Pit's song Take a Walk. I talked about how it just was not quite as good as it could have been. This time around I'd like to take a look at the video for their song Carried Away. I think its a fantastic portrayal of the ebbs and flows of a relationship. Throughout the video there are abrupt and smooth cuts that shift the viewer's perspective from the good times to the bad to the crazy to the silly and everywhere in between. The editing combined with the special effects and typography at the end are able to illustrate the chaotic whirlwind that can be a relationship.
I think the underlying theme in both the lyrics of the song and the video is that sometimes we say things we don't mean and sometimes we overreact when loved ones say hurtful things. At the end of the day though, you have to remember why you love each other no matter who many crazy things were said or done; in the end everything will be alright.
Passion Pit
Carried Away
directed by Ben Brewer and Alex Brewer
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Sunday, April 28, 2013
Monday, September 17, 2012
Almost Not Quite 2
Hello again, its time for another installment of "Almost Not Quite". This time I'd like to take a look at Passion Pit's video for their song "Take a Walk". Okay first of all let's start with things that I think the video/song does well. The song itself tells the story of a man who goes from fresh off the boat immigrant to Wall Street inside trader, it shows a ruthless progression, but also conveys hope throughout. Its a fun song, jangly and polished and relevant to our world today.
The video shows us a sort of tour of America from the point of a bouncing blue rubber ball. I enjoy the slices of life and nature and happenings we're shown in the video, but nothing is really shown for any significant length of time to get any context to the situation at hand. We see a car accident, but how did it happen? Did the driver see the bouncing ball coming from the heavens and miss the bicyclist in front of him? Or there's a girl who spills her papers in an alley, did some ruffian harass this nice woman? Sadly we will never know the truth. I think my biggest problem with the video is that we are given the point of view of a bouncing blue rubber ball, but yet to me, the bouncing mechanics do not seem to have the right feel to them at all. Did they examine how a ball bounces at all before making the video? I understand they needed to cover hundreds of miles at a time, okay fine, but at times we the camera/ball seem to just sail in these awkward arcs that seem as if the ball has grown wings. That's all I have to say, give it a watch for yourself.
Passion Pit
Take a Walk
The video shows us a sort of tour of America from the point of a bouncing blue rubber ball. I enjoy the slices of life and nature and happenings we're shown in the video, but nothing is really shown for any significant length of time to get any context to the situation at hand. We see a car accident, but how did it happen? Did the driver see the bouncing ball coming from the heavens and miss the bicyclist in front of him? Or there's a girl who spills her papers in an alley, did some ruffian harass this nice woman? Sadly we will never know the truth. I think my biggest problem with the video is that we are given the point of view of a bouncing blue rubber ball, but yet to me, the bouncing mechanics do not seem to have the right feel to them at all. Did they examine how a ball bounces at all before making the video? I understand they needed to cover hundreds of miles at a time, okay fine, but at times we the camera/ball seem to just sail in these awkward arcs that seem as if the ball has grown wings. That's all I have to say, give it a watch for yourself.
Passion Pit
Take a Walk
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