I tried to model my Haiku off the music video for Step by Vampire Weekend. Once I had heard the piano piece that was selected as the royalty free soundtrack in the brief I tried to think of something that incorporated cloudy city shots with a piano song, and immediately thought of the video for Step. Not only did that make sense, but the opening line from the song was pretty much a Haiku:
Not only is Ezra Koenig my hero for such appropriate seasonal quotes:
But the art direction for Vampire Weekend’s videos is impeccable. It’s the exact creative and aesthetic direction I would love to work towards. These are some of the parallels I tried to create between the videos.
Victorian State Library
New York Public Library
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Baller Boyz in like… central park
Baller Boyz behind building 80
hardly workin
working hard
State Library with text
manhattan with text
You can watch my original video below. I used footage from the shared folder on google drive, and I thank all the classmates who’s original footage is shown below.
Music credit to Circus Marcus – ‘Rumbo De Grises’ https://soundcloud.com/circusmarcus/rumbo-de-grises This Work is licensed under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/