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Split Screen Music Videos?
Hey Guys,
For our Uni class we are required to do a Music Video for one of the University’s bands and we have come up with an idea to do a split screen style music video. Kind of like the music video ‘Lovesong’ by Amiel except in one side there is one singer and in the other side a differnt singer and they walk between each others splitscreen.
So I was basically wondering if you guy’s/gals had any tips or other examples of good split screen music videos? I’ll be doing a camera test of it tomorrow to show you what I mean more…
Any advice/comments is greatly appreciated! 🙂
Trent Whittington – Currently studying Associate Degree in Digital Television
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I was not impressed much by the sample clip, since it’s just one scene mirror-flipped; that’s not as hard as synching truly separate action lines, camera shots and locations.
I may have a harder example for you.
Go to youtube and look up several videos by Cibo Matto, directed by the ever-awesome Michelle Gondry. I think one was “Sugar Water”, but not a live performance, you may need to specify “split screen” music video. In one of the videos, the spilt screen is the two women split in time as well as space: they are doing identical things, but one is running backwards; the other, forwards, and all their activites somehow still interact.
Gondry is a modern Dali.
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This is kinda interesting and may generate inspiration:
Though it is not a music video.
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I know the bearded actor in that thing, he said it was a pretty loose and ad-hoc kind of shoot, lots of experimentation.
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The best split screen music video is Kylie Minogue’s “Come into My World” directed by Michel Gondry (one of the best music video directors out there).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUueEVXw7ec‘>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUueEVXw7ecIf you don’t own the Director’s Label music videos – you should!
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You’re discrediting Gondry….that video is a little more complicated than spilt screen.
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check out Woodstock – it would be an incredible video whenever it was made – but for 40 years old it’s mindblowing.
In modern video the style-setter for split-screen work is the Brit TV series “Trial and Retribution” – the first 2 series are on netflix in the US
The producers of 24 tried to model their split screen on T&R
Peter Ralph
https://www.shootingbynumbers.com
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The “come into my world” video is explained on the Gondry Director Series DVD (which everybody should own, incredibly inspiring, creatively), it relied on a motion controlled camera to perfectly track the scene over and over as new and alternate actions were choreographed on every camera pass, then the thing was heavily rotoscoped in post to merge all the variations into one apparently seamless loop. It’s not so much split-screen in the classic sense of that term.
Interesting that Gondry worked on Minogue’s thing as well as the Cibo Matto videos.
When people ask me what a “perfect” science fiction movie is, I point to “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”, by Gondry.
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[Evan Schafer] “You’re discrediting Gondry….that video is a little more complicated than spilt screen.”
Of course its not a simple split screen, I was definitely exaggerating that (well aware of the complexity), but not sure how I discredited Gondry by acknowledging him as one of the best directors and his video as one of the best. I thought I credited him pretty well… even pointed out that everyone should own the Director’s Label compilations. 🙂
Thought the video might inspire something better and more creative than a split screen… Cheers!
Another one… Blink 182 “Always”… reminds me of those flip books I remember as a kid – where you can match up different peoples heads with different bodies and legs… check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUDCEzfPxw4
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