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www.youtube.com/bestbuy - Musician and Best Buy employee, Keith Parsons, rocks his Best Buy holiday campaign audition.
49 Comments
- CLIFFosakaJAPAN, on 10/12/2007, -8/+58@Hensworth
You're the type of perrson who would go to a museum, look at a Painting and blurt out; "big deal, just a bunch of lines painted on a canvas; I'm outta here" - amboy00, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30I think it could have used more of the silent movie cliches, but it sure beats Episode I.
- MadMan459, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20"and most were shot in 24 fps just like today."
Most were shot in something close to 24 fps... those old-time cameras were hand-cranked. The speed variations came when the cameramen didn't quite keep it up to 24 fps. Speed variations were pretty common until motorized film cameras came out.
I thought this video was funny. - lechatron, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23There was a lot more done to that video than just removing the color. But clearly you're a master of video editing so you might know more than me.
Buried YOU as lame. - TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19and apparently replying, too
- somunny, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16It was doing well until it turned into a music video. If you're going to make it look like an old time silent movie (good job on that) at least follow the time line of the original. Splicing a bunch of random clips together to the rhythm of the music is weak.
- ogmandino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10too bad they don't try to maintain a story. This one of Top Gun is a little better I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUVqig9aYLc - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Good grief.
- RipperMortis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Well, admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.
- jettloe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9fine for first few seconds when you thought they were going to tell the story - but then just clips - so burrrried as lame.
- wingnut21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8No *****. Digg should check to see if the url is to google video, youtube, metacafe, whatever to make sure it goes in the video category. And here I thought this ***** was off the front page for good.
- TheKingInYellow, on 10/12/2007, -14/+20@Hensworth
you don't appreciate it because you're probably 8 years old and have no respect for art. i should summon the spirit of buster keaton to b!tch slap you and he'd do it while performing some insane acrobatics, too.
"wow they just removed the color and sped it up". you're nothing but a whiny brat. you'll change your tune when you go to college and take some art/film appreciation courses. - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The dollar sign goes before the number (welcome to America), and I'm still waiting to see what you've done with your $25 video editing program...
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yes, but film was often sped up for comedy effect, and not just in the early silent films. Watch anything from the Keystone Kops up to Woody Allen, and you'll see that done.
- selrahc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Starts off good... but then they start putting clips out of order and the storyline disintegrates. Still cool, but it should be longer and more coherent.
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Also,
Die Hard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StuihXsyEqU
Dirty Dancing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxxmHOfR29U
Too bad about the SW one, it started out impressive, but fell flat when he just retorted to the running. - Salmar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@sockpuppets
Nice Charlie Brown reference to the above poster's profile pic. - Jacques67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Most were shot in something close to 24 fps"
Technically, 18fps. Silent film used 18fps as a target rate since that was the projection speed back then. The sped up motion is due to a 1:1 frame transfer and projecting at 24fps. The speed variations and brightness pulsing are due to the hand crank; going too slow means sped up motion and brighter frames, since each frame captures more motion, and therefore more light (overexposure), too fast and it's just the opposite.
I like the added touch of the vignette on this video. Reminiscent of the non-uniform projection and poor lenses back then. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6The original comment is right, this is nothing like a silent movie. Morons who are burying him know nothing about the history of film, because silent movies had plots and coherent narratives. This is just a music video, nothing more. And a poor one at that.
- DarthBibble, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Video section?
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You just sounded like the perfect audience for George Lucas' "vision" ;-)
- pianoimprov, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, there are many silent films that have no coherent narrative at all, that are very abstract and without any kind of story, or even characters. Look at the work of Germaine Dulac, Marcel Duchamp, and early Orson Welles (HEARTS OF AGE) or any number of works by Dziga Vertov. I think Stan Brakhage's work also falls into that category. Go to unseencinema.org and check out some of the clips.
- plnegative1, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7"I applaud the Visual Effects, Editing, and Original idea for this 'Alternative Style'"
You are a moron. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7""wow they just removed the color and sped it up". you're nothing but a whiny brat. you'll change your tune when you go to college and take some art/film appreciation courses."
perhaps i'll appreciate it when they do more than just take existing footage, speed it up, and black and white it, *****
you see, i appreciate original art. - MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1in the same way that a painter splashes paint. It's more about what they've selected or removed than what is IN it.
- statiktv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i thought it was great. agreed it coulda been more of a timeline, but who cares, the death star popping was so hilariously anti-climactic at the end, it was glorious. normally i just smirk at videos, but this one made me chuckle slightly.
- GhostToon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would love to see the whole movie like that. I thought it looked better that way.
- jvworldwide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1// well done //
- cazoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1when i was little, our family owned a super-8 projector and we would sometimes purchase these 1 reel super-8 movies from k-mart. one of which was star wars and it was in black and white with subtitles! the entire film was condensed into about 5 minutes too.
- ehmjay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Excellent job! Loved the Vignette effect.
- orbit1979, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow! that ***** rocked! The person dubbed in the music perfect with the selected scenes, made more amusing. Totally digging it.
- ryan4477, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3woooow a bunch of whiney brats (some of you =P)
guys, if you dont like it or dont care then just move on with your life without commenting. some of us care and like comedy, like me and...hte other...people who....are cool.
you should have to pass a maturity test to join digg. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I agree, this isn't a tribute to silent movies as more of a "gee look what I can do with my 25$ copy of some video editing program!"
- 574lk3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1not art, but great comedy, dugg!.
- Tapewormz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Fantastic, 3 episodes in 1:15 without all the convoluted crap. In your face Lucas the Hutt. You greedy SOB. :P
- yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Lame. So lame.
- mendelini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I did the same thing with "Jaws" seven years ago. This is way better, though.
- cru99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0If you watch Eps 4-6, paying attention to only Darth Vader's movements with no sound, it's hilarious.
- Sethwm2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Wonderful they used iMovie and took 5 minutes of there time and made it black and white and made it go faster. Whoopti Friken Doooo Bazel
- whoisKeel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Did they have to use the SE death star explosion? Geez.
- heavyal, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Oh come on. Its funny! And like someone else said, a helluva lot better than episode I.
- rufug, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1WOW, Laghed my ass off when the ewoks kept apearing!
- raynar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1That was actually pretty neat, but they should have at least kept it in order.
- Spazkake, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Great video, WRONG TOPIC.
- icepick314, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0could have used film scratches, noises, and random spots to make it look more authentic....
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -18/+6Oooh, Star Wars goes emo. "I force strangle myself to feeeeel...."
- Hensworth, on 10/12/2007, -49/+5Yep, that's me, I hate art, specifically that video.
- Hensworth, on 10/12/2007, -49/+5I find it ironic that you two are saying that I hate art, quite the opposite. In actuality not all silent films were sped up to such an absurd speed, it's just a misconception further perptuated by whomever made that video and most were shot in 24 fps just like today.
- Hensworth, on 10/12/2007, -99/+10Wow they just removed the color and sped it up. Buried as lame.
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