Talk:Video for Ray

From zefrank

I think it would be nice to use a "ray of sunshine" motif.

Does anyone with leet drawing skillz want to take charge of storyboarding?

Images of work

-- With the lack of an image likeness of the artist, we are hard pressed for visual content. What does the music conjure up in your mind? I see cubical and office, repetitive cubes rendered in 3D (easy to model) that compliments the repetitive beats of the house/dance music.

Ray's very bluesy vocals reminds me of soulful songs of the south about slavery, which juxtaposed with modern office work could be the plot of the video. The whole "bad day at work" theme with an overlord boss, rising up and 'whip somebody’s a$$' and sending me home.

I see a lot of motion graphics, using after effects to fill in the cubicles or images of office settings. Here is an example of what I am picturing http://accad.osu.edu/~kgecsi/movies/yellow.html ---

how about people upload short video clips of themselves singing 10 sec. or so of the tune...this can be the base on top of which other stuff is laid down. or maybe dancing? would be cool to have a simple idea that everyone can do and string together.

We could take photos of ourselves at work. If each SR had a series of photos of themselves in various stages of clapping (hands together, hands a foot apart, etc.) we could put them in a grid and use a slideshow to "animate" them clapping together to the hand-claps in the song.

In the slow middle section, have a shot of a female cubicle working having a bad day, head in hands, looking like she's going to cry. Then when the tempo picks up, she gets herself together and starts to dance.

Or we could have (an animated version of) Ray stand up on his desk and sing, and once it gets to the slow part his colleagues stand up and start clapping with him, solemnly. Then once it starts speeding up the could start dancing. (Maybe with a furious manager in the background?)

Fabulosos! We must leverage our happily dressed legion of vaccuum cleaners to tell Ray's story. Can they be animated? Can they be made to sing? And dance? Yes they can!

Sports Racers film 10 second clips of themselves at their crappy jobs. Everyone wears the same "Hello my name is:" stickers (like the ones we get at the AA meetings) with Ray's Daughter written in.

I like this idea so much I added images of "Hi my name is:" badges (with and without "Ray" written in) to the whipass gallery http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/gallery/v/whip+somebody_%2339_s+ass/

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I think the idea of using images of Sports Racers at work is a very cool idea... maybe? -adam

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--- Just a thought - if we're doing scenes in the office, perhaps one shot should be the frustrated person opening up a drawer with a whip inside. Another possible image: darts at the boss's picture... ---

Real Sports Racers? Slide Show? Images? Animation?

How are we going to do this?
Should we get a group of SR's who are close togeather and see if they want to act?
How are we going to edit?
Should we try and get a server of some sort?

Will we designate one editor?
What's allowed?
What's not?

Are we going to work on the assumption that we're not adding any audio?