Monday, January 22, 2007

um part four of feel good inc.......damn this bloody thing is to long!....i told 'em we wrote to much but they juss kept goin an goin an goin!!
Murdoc: I thought the video was great. Apart from the fact that a couple of coppers followed me down to the set. Bastards pulled me over just before I arrived and nicked me for having half a gram of pink whizz in my pocket. Parlophone managed to bail me out because we had the video to shoot, and luckily enough I had already strapped the other half gram to the underside of my yozzer. Then we were just about to shoot the close-up on the bass and the bloody bag split. I'm paralysed from the waist down! So, 'Sod's 'Law', i'm in the middle of a sea of beautiful ladies, on the big shoot for the next Gorillaz video and I can't move a muscle. So next, what happened was...er...sorry...What was the question?

Russel: The video, which was the most technically complex to date and took twelve weeks to make, used a fusion of drawn and computer animation,painted background and treated live action. All the animation was done in0house at Passion Pictures where co-director Pete Candeland directed a team of 35 animatoers,including Noodle,Murdoc,2D and myself,designers and compositors.

Murdoc: Anything else?

Noodle: For the live action performance from De La Soul, a camera on a body rig was attacted to the performers to achieve some of the distorted perspectives of their faces. This footage was treated at Rushes to create the lens flare in some of the shoots. All these elements were composited at Passion Pictures using After Effects.

Murdoc: Hmmm...Yeah.Great. Actually, it's probably best if we cut out all that geek rubbish and go straight to the good bits. So where were we? Oh, yeah! DE LA SOUL!!! '60 FT HIGH AND RISING'!!! It was great that they could appear in the video, laughing their big faces off! I thought the screens look wicked. I like the way De La Soul look like something off 'Poltergeist' or the Japanese film 'The Ring'. Real ghostly, man!!

Russel: De La Soul came over from the States to film their bit, but I get the feeling that they had been inhailing nitrous oxide on the plane over. They wouldn't take us seriously at all, man! They just kept giggling their heads off, goofing around and picking on 2D. But again. what they gave us came out really well.

2D: As in the song...i am seen ta be repeatint the mantra, 'feel good'. i think this works almost like im convincin myself that everythins ok....or maybe that im,like..brainwashin myself to believe it......the truth is to horrible to face.

Murdoc: 2D's such a lightweight. Before we shot this video, i'd been up for five..maybe six days. I'd been in Paris with some mates.I was on a roll-looking good, feeling sexy. Playing bass like a demon. 2D went out for 20 minutes the night before and just look at him!! Killer comedown!! He looks like......a trapped boy...Well,actually, I guess that's what he is in this video. I don't know, maybe he's just a great actor....DOUBT IT, THOUGH!!

Noodle: There are so many elements in this that I am very proud of. The way the island descends through the clouds is so graceful. It's quite moving. The way the wind blows the grass, and you can see each blade moving, is wonderful too!


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