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Jason Arber, a director at the London based motion graphics outfit Wyld Stallyons has created a rather spectacular, and surprisingly profound commentary on the state of telvision news, and all without saying a word. Jason explains that
“for a long time I’ve been obsessed by the look that news presenters have when the other person in a news presenting duo is talking”
And it was this unease that inspired him to create the video.
“I recorded a bunch of footage and then stripped out the talking news presenters and replaced them with non-talking ones. The effect was weird and unsettling, and so I paired it with some wonderful music from the composer Ben Frost that really seemed to suit the mood”.
While its recently been brought to Jason’s attention that a fairly similar video was created by the comedy show Time Trumpet, I think the success of Jason’s video is that its more effective in capturing the vulnerability of the newscasters, and is more subtle and poignant in its approach. Mitchell and Webb also recently did a very funny piece of news parody, exploring the concept that really, everything was just fine.
Jason’s video is beautifully executed on both technical and creative fronts, and its about as close to art I’ve seen television news get.
Much prefer the Time Trumpet one I’m afraid!
Although that’s mainly because I’m GAY for Adam Buxton
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Absolute brilliance ….
Cheers
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Also where can I find more of this type of music?
Cheers
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This has been AAALLLLLL over the blogs this week.
Please check out the original and best from comic genius Adam Buxton, and his other vids on his YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4pY3QtiGyo
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what is your opinion of the new euronews?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKmDLJE_9kE
it has some good ideas but the logo is just awful.
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Adam Buxton’s execution was 10x better than this, it was hilarious. This is just a tad too serious.
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Jugalug Reply:
October 26th, 2008 at 4:40 am
What if the point was not to be funny?
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You might think that the graphics of ABC Breakfast is quite ugly..
But TV for me in Hong Kong has faced this problem for years and years!
Take a look at TVB(Televison Broadcast Limited) HD Jade Channel right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWxf5Rofxuc
This is a soap opera in 2008 broadcasted and produced by TVB!
They are using billions of dollars to develop a HD channel just for broadcasting these piece of ugly programmes!
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