I was wracking my brain for a while watching this trying to figure out why clips from a show made in the 21st century could look so much like an 80s Mtv music video (and yes, the music helps, but that wasn't it).
I realized that you really picked up on two features of 80s videos that are not so true about music videos today:
1. Many of your clips in this one (unlike say the Knight Vipers one I just commented on) are relatively long. This is something that isn't done so much in Mtv-style music videos anymore. It seems like 2 seconds is about the tolerance level these days in a video before there must be a seemingly disconnected jump cut. ;)
2. Whenever 80s videos weren't just boring performance recordings of the band, they tended to try and tell coherent stories using clips to tell a lot of story in a few minutes. Today's videos are far less likely to tell stories, and are more likely to use their 4 minutes creating postmodern pastiches of random images that connect in completely decentralized ways. Here, you are clearly trying to use a bunch of disparate clips, from shows far apart from each other in the timeline, to tell a pretty clear story that also evokes the lyrics of the song. Very 80s approach, IMHO. And you know? I bet a newbie to BSG could get the basic gist of the Lee/Dee/Kara/Anders angst from watching your vid. That's a compliment.
Anyway, I don't know if you were purposely trying to evoke an 80s video, but in my mind you did, which works real well with the 80s song. So great! Keep up the great vids!
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I realized that you really picked up on two features of 80s videos that are not so true about music videos today:
1. Many of your clips in this one (unlike say the Knight Vipers one I just commented on) are relatively long. This is something that isn't done so much in Mtv-style music videos anymore. It seems like 2 seconds is about the tolerance level these days in a video before there must be a seemingly disconnected jump cut. ;)
2. Whenever 80s videos weren't just boring performance recordings of the band, they tended to try and tell coherent stories using clips to tell a lot of story in a few minutes. Today's videos are far less likely to tell stories, and are more likely to use their 4 minutes creating postmodern pastiches of random images that connect in completely decentralized ways. Here, you are clearly trying to use a bunch of disparate clips, from shows far apart from each other in the timeline, to tell a pretty clear story that also evokes the lyrics of the song. Very 80s approach, IMHO. And you know? I bet a newbie to BSG could get the basic gist of the Lee/Dee/Kara/Anders angst from watching your vid. That's a compliment.
Anyway, I don't know if you were purposely trying to evoke an 80s video, but in my mind you did, which works real well with the 80s song. So great! Keep up the great vids!