So I'm guessing this was take number nine, due to the eight broken TVs.

*extreme *quality to the *max.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by arvana.

Awesome!

OK, mad props to the cameraman.

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Very cool.

these dudes need to get laid, bad.

>> ^KrazyKat42:
these dudes need to get laid, bad.


Dude, you know how much Mensa pussy they're gonna get after this?

>> ^eric3579:
So I'm guessing this was take number nine, due to the eight broken TVs.


If they got that with taken nine I'd be stunned! Take nine hundred maybe

Awesome video.

incredible. simply incredible. I was going to post some Rube Goldberg devices myself, particularly involving fire, but... that's not getting topped for a while. brilliant, simply fantastic find.

That was purely epic in scale!

I was going to say that the Honda add was better. That was around 0:30. Now I don't know what to think. This video may have singlehandedly saved my faith in humanity.

Nice CGI.

Possibly, yes. Though I´d like to imagine it was all done without.

@2:27 somebody seems to be holding the curtains shut, which makes me think they just HAD to have some bits where they could compensate for timing issues! (Similar to the Spice Girls in "Wannabe" which I was told had a few cleverly hidden bits that were edited later.) Edit: Can anyone find a Making of Clip for Wannabe?


Otherwise this would just be too mindboggling.
Or CGI of yourse.

>> ^dgandhi:
Nice CGI.

The making of OK Go's This Too Shall Pass video

>> ^maatc:
Possibly, yes. Thought I´d like to imagine it was all done without.

From the editing it looks to me like:

1) they built a significant subset of this machine.
2) they ran it in sections (the placement of the band in different locations suggests cuts).
3) they pieced it together with some kick ass digital editing (this can account for some of the syncing).
4) they added more "stuff" to the machine in post, to make some parts look more interesting.

The "we don't like computers" line at the end of the making-of seems suspiciously like a smoke screen.

[edit] what would be mind-bendingly kick ass: If the whole thing, including the making-of were green screened.

I don't know, I feel like I should enjoy this video, but it seems so strategically engineered to be a viral hit on the internet that it feels a bit cynical and soulless to me.

According to Damian, there is one edit: "We did actually shoot it in long, single takes. We only made it all the way through three times. But the truth is, one part, where we come down a waterfall, the action got a little behind, and three times, we actually got all the way through, the camera guy only got it once," Kulash explained. "So there is a bit of an edit in there. One edit. The machine did run all the way through each time, though, which is important."

Sarzy's comment that this feels "cynical and soulless" makes me sad. Obviously the band is trying to make viral videos, but that's been true since they recorded their first dance video and handed it out to some fans at concerts a number of years ago now. It wasn't cynical then, and it's not cynical now; it's just good marketing.

Wow...

Just Wow.

From watching it I thought 'no way is it all one take'

And to read that it has one edit (and some timing stuff one would imagine) is just mind boggling.

That they got the whole thing to run through three times is darn impressive unto itself.

Bravo chaps

Bravo

Disappointed there were no treadmills...

Mixes well with Hang on Sloopy...

>> ^Payback:
Disappointed there were no treadmills...


There were... on the TV showing the old video... which was then destroyed.

Brilliant.

That's their sledgehammer response to your call of/for cynicism too.

This video always leaves me transfixed and mesmerized.

A lot of VERY talented people worked on this and cost roughly $90K to pull off. It took thirty some odd takes (with resets, that could take almost no time to a few hours depending on where the machine got to) with two edits and some manipulation (just the speed-to match with the song) This used NO CGI and they actually got the machine to work IN FULL with no resets three times.

People from MIT and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other, just as talented people, helped to build and get this machine to run. And, specifically, to get it to run in time with the music (or roughly so--the editing slows it down and speeds it up where necessary, but they aren't LARGE edits--you won't notice them unless you look HARD). This will always be a great and unique video.

BTW, considering the people that worked on this you should keep your eyes open and on the look out for easter eggs that are included in the course and related with, usually, their day jobs. This would also be a great teaching tool to introduce kids, in a physics/science class, specifically talking about the easiest of beginning physics: Newtonian Mechanics. Maybe, get the class or better, groups in the class, to come up with their own using various objects available. Make sure you show your math!

Thriller is a great music video and is epic to watch and is great in it's own way. This video does the same. It's memorable and very re-watchable (although the music is average ).