One of my favourite videos is OK GO's music video for their song "This too shall pass". It's not a bad song either.
The whole thing takes the idea of a labour of love to new heights. Here's one of the band talking about all the things in it. The question is - was the whole thing done in one take? That is, did a single camera follow the action all the way through, in a miracle of timing?
It's certainly meant to look that way, but according to FreddieW, it's not quite what happened:
A little more digging has one of the band members confirming the edit, though claiming there's just one in an article for Wired. A nice collection of behind-the-scenes interviews there too.
So the verdict is: Not one take, but it was clearly meant to be. They did such a great job that I'm going to accept the story that the whole machine worked three times, and that the camera did actually manage to follow almost all of it through at least once.
The whole thing takes the idea of a labour of love to new heights. Here's one of the band talking about all the things in it. The question is - was the whole thing done in one take? That is, did a single camera follow the action all the way through, in a miracle of timing?
It's certainly meant to look that way, but according to FreddieW, it's not quite what happened:
A little more digging has one of the band members confirming the edit, though claiming there's just one in an article for Wired. A nice collection of behind-the-scenes interviews there too.
So the verdict is: Not one take, but it was clearly meant to be. They did such a great job that I'm going to accept the story that the whole machine worked three times, and that the camera did actually manage to follow almost all of it through at least once.
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