MUTEMATH : Making of the "Typical" music video

Because then the song they play in the video is going backwards, and the soundtrack is going forwards. Unless I'm misunderstanding you, that would fail epically.

not as cool. duh

I don't know if you've realized, but the track played in reverse doesn't line up with the track played normally.

So you'll have a video where none of the playing and vocals line up with the music track at all. Which makes for a horrible music video. Then again, you're right--horrible music videos are easier to make.

man.. he learned to sing reverse, drummer played the rhythm reverse... and everything lines up :)

dood, ur a goof... they played the whole thing backwards for the video, meaning forwards, but in reverse order... at the beginning of shooting, they played the end of the song... at the end of the shooting, they were playing the beginning... of course the tracks wont line up...

mavriksfan11 suggested, "Why would they not just act it out forwards from end to beginning, then run the tape in reverse and record that and then overdub the sounds with the actual track? Much easier."

I was explaining why his idea wouldn't work; his method results in their mouths acting out the end of the song in reverse at the beginning of the song.

have u seen what there doing it would make it alot harder

That's what I thought they did at first, in the music video, you can't really see his mouth well enough to see if his lips are moving exactly with the words.  Obviously this band is dedicated to making good music and videos for there fans.

it would mess up the vocals.

Paul bought his Kurzweil keyboard from me. Sweet ass video man. :)

-Brett, Abigail's Ghost