On first impressions this video is extremly odd and remind many of the old school low budget sci-fi films. "Flux" is a song by Bloc Party,which was released November 12, 2007. It was produced by Jacknife Lee. The song uses mostly electronic instruments and has Kele's voice is manipulated through a vocoder.
A video for the song was directed by video director Ace Norton, who has previously directed videos for The Willows, Norah Jones and Death Cab for Cutie. It uses strange special effects like using toys and model like buildings reminiscient of the Beastie Boys music video Intergalactic. It features monsters and robots fighting in a city while two silver robots begin to love each other while the fight occurs. At the end of the video, the silver robots walk away after the male robot drinks toxic waste while the other monsters dance and dissapear strangely as light shines on them.
The video tends to stray away from many typical conventions of indie music. The use of the robots used in the video is also a strange, postmodern adaptation of the track itself. The video is extremely colourful, contrasting the usual dark and moody typical indie...
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Week 5 - Preparing the Pitch
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9 years ago
Tom - the whole first section is cut and pasted from http://www.kovideo.net/music/video/Bloc-Party---Flux/2171.html
ReplyDeleteYou MUST remove this and redo this analysis using the 9 question sheet. You do make some useful observations at the end, but this doesn't have enough depth for A2. Currently level 2.