David Wilson 'Moray McLaren, We Got Time'

I recently came across this wonderful music video by David Wilson for the music artist Moray McLaren’s single ‘We Got Time’. I found this music video fascinating and unique. It uses a animation style based concept through out the music video. The music video is very psychedelic and when watching it is hard to tell if what you are watching is really or not. After watching the music video I found a video on youtube which is the make of the music video. When discovering this ‘making of video I was even more fascinated my it as I found out that the whole music video was a live shoot, there was no cgi elements of compositing in any of the shots. (Fascinating and incredible).

This element reminded me of the live competition brief for the 'ministry of sound' which i created earlier this year. Similar to David Wilsons piece, I too sided with the live action shot instead of cgi. I felt for that brief in particular there are certain elements within a piece of design that when they are done in a live action shoot they have a more visually interesting style and uniqueness. Also if the viewer can question if the work is really or not it can create a talking point in regards to the work (which if it is an advertisement or in this case a pop promo it is a positive thing as more people will pass it on to their friends to have a look)

As I have been developing my final major project i have also questioned whether or not i should use cgi and live shots. i discovered through my major project some shots were better suited for cgi, so i could have full control and other shot would not work as well if they wasnt live shots. below are some still shots in which i used live action footage instead of CGI computer generated images. Again i think the use of live action gives a sense of originality within a final piece whereas cgi inparticular 3D design can look unoriginal in some cases.




















The director ‘David Wilson talks through the whole animation from concept to storyboards to Animatics through to the final shoot and piece. He explains that all the whole music video revolves around little animations all displayed and worked from a device called a Praxinoscope which was a successor to the more familiar zoetrope. The device is placed on a rotating record player which allows the animation to play. He further explains the frame rate for each machine saying that each Praxinoscope is made up of 16 mirrors equal to 16 frames of animation on each record. He goes on to say that he had to hand draw every frame on each device and the most challenging thing was to develop an animation that would loop in 16 frames to allow continues loops on each device.





He carries on to explain the the production of the animation and concludes saying that “one of the really interesting and nice things about this shoot was how often it felt quite surreal to be working and interacting with animation which is often a very slow process in a such a fast and live action way”

Overall I really interesting piece by David Wilson and for me it works so well because it is from a live shoot and has no CGI in it.