Tuna Melt

So I'm aware I've fallen into the trap of posting videos on Fridays instead of writing stories and I feel guilty. I was on such a good tear for a while, writing four stories a week and accompanying them with a song or two. And to be honest, I don't know what has happened. I'm stuck in a pattern and hopefully I'll break out of it soon.

But until then - video time!

The following piece is actually done by two IC Alum. Go Ithaca! Along with realizing my Friday video habit, I've also realized that I've posted a lot of travel pieces - time lapses, driving, flying, etc and seemingly distanced myself from my true love, music videos. So today I'm going back to my old routine. Below, you'll see a video to A-Trak's song "Tuna Melt." Now, by no means do I think this is groundbreaking or even pushing the medium of music videos forward - but at the same time, I don't think it needs to. At its core, this is just a fun, creative video. Which is what I think music videos should be. Pure entertainment. I won't be a stickler and break the entire piece down, but I will say that upon watching, I quickly realized this was not one continuous shot (if you watch closely you can see all the different scenes and where they are spliced together).

Favorite part of it aside from the song (remember I'm kind of in a dance craze at the moment)? That they did some work in the editing, to slow down specific shots, to allow certain "larger" events in the video to fall on important beats in the song. Nice little touch. Oh - and the little underwater transition is a nice change.

Overall I really enjoy this piece for the song and all the work put into the video. Even though it isn't one continuous shot - I can't imagine all the prep work and how many time they needed to shoot each section.

Fun fun fun! Yay for creative content.

A-Trak & Tommy Trash - Tuna Melt from Pomp&Clout on Vimeo.