Neon Brown Music Video - Static

Duration: 4:51.

Quicktime 7.x is required.

File size: 50.2 megs (users with dial-up or slow connections beware).

Credits:

• Music composed and performed by (Adrian and Andrew Woods) taken from their full-length album Fiber.
• Directed, photographed and edited by Eric A. Peacock.
• Created with Apple Computer's Final Cut Studio, with effects work done with Adobe Photoshop, Apple Motion, Flash and Adobe After Effects 6.5 & 7.x. 3D shots were created with Carrara Studio 4.
• Additional "blue goo" source animation and time-lapse photography segment provided by Andrew Woods.

Background:

This project was initially begun as a self-assigned experiment with animating fifty or so still photos into a full-length music video. A lot of the photography was shot using natural light in various live music venues but one segment uses a more staged photoshoot in the band's practice space, so it's all over the map as far as quality and consistency goes. There weren't enough photos to do the whole song well without being overly repetitive, so I began to generate other elements using video static and other things.

I also integrated a lot of low-rez 15fps video from the same photo shoots, using those clips as a foundation for layered effects sequences. The project grew and grew, ending up with eight or so versions created, none of which satisfied my goal, but like all things it had to reach a point of completion, so I settled on the version you see now. A lot of experiments still lie on the cutting room floor but I intend to utilize them on the full Nice Video DVD in some way