Out of a Forest

On the eve of the one year anniversary of Top Shelf Audio Daily I find myself really going back and forth on how to close out year one. I've decided to keep it simple and share a music video I saw last week and was blown away by. The song for the video is a cool one called "Slow Show" by a very solid group called The National.

Out Of A Forest from Tobias Gundorff Boesen on Vimeo.

Directed by Tobias Gundorff Boesen, the film is a non-commercial short film, intended for film festivals. It is not the official music video for the song, but it certainly could be. The film was shot in the forests of Denmark and inspired by both Victorian Literature and the song itself. It is a stop-motion film. For those of you who aren't familiar with the term "stop-motion" think about Gumby.

Stop-motion, which is also known as frame-by-frame or stop-action, is an animation technique that makes a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is re-positioned in tiny increments between individually photographed frames. The illusion of movement is created when the series of these frames is played in sequence. Clay figures are most commonly used in stop-motion because they are easy to reposition and manipulate. The director noted that this particular video was "painful to finish, as shooting stop motion in the forest at night for longer periods turned out to offer a lot of problems". Well I for one am glad that he and his animation crew saw it through to the end.

If you liked the vid and want some additional insight into the creative process behind it, make sure to watch this too

Hope you all enjoyed Year One.
Ben