Sunday, November 23, 2008

Chemical Brothers

so pretty much all of the Chemical Brothers videos i've seen are very synched up with the music. but for all intensive purposes i will only be talking about one of them. this video is "Believe". if you haven't seen this film, first i suggest you look it up on youtube and second it is about a man in a car factory that starts noticing the welding machines noticing him. he later sees thes machines in the streets outside of his job. the machines work very well with the song because one of the elements of the song is a pnuematic wrench type sound that accompanies the movement of the machines very well. there is also a beat in the song which goes along with the steps of the machine and renders the machine with quite a large mass since it is a deep bass sound for when the main body of the machine hits the ground. there are also some great uses of the action on screen being punctuated by some aspect of the music. a couple of examples of this are when the cymbal crash comes into the song at different points throughtout the song. the first time this happens the machine crashes through the mans bathroom window. so the cymbal crash is made into a sound effect for the breaking glass. another time when the cymbal crash comes in is when the maching is chasing the man on a bus and its crashed into by another bus going the other way. this is what makes Chemical Brothers videos so entertianing to watch because quite a lot of time the music lines up with some visual element on screen and this makes things seem to work together in a way that makes the video not just some visual elements with a song in the background. it gives life to the video by giving it sound effects that dont have to be added becaus they are simply part of the song.

No comments: