COSMO SPEEDWAY - "Lights On"

THERE WAS A FOREST FIRE IN MY BEDROOM...

The set was too big to fit in my room, so I had to prop my bed against the wall and sleep on the couch for six months. It wasnt a glamorous process. It was days of dangerously hot lights in a poorly wired apartment by myself, hoping my roommates wouldnt get drunk and knock everything over. At one point, a halogen backlight fell and caught the dry brush of the set on fire. My room filled with smoke as the indoor forest fire set off all the alarms in the complex. I managed to put it out quickly and told the landlord that I burnt a bag of popcorn. I moved. My new place doesnt smell like burnt foliage and plastic, so thats a plus.

The video is comprised of roughly 3,600 still images animated in stop motion. I would take a photo, move the character, move the lights, change the focus, move the camera, then take another photo and do it again. It was all physically shot, except for the light from the bulb (vfx) and the stars courtesy of the Hubble Telescope. The vocal track of the song was stemmed out and fed into the luminance channel of the lens flare. This way, when I sang louder in the song, his light would shine brighter and give him a more human feel. The video was shot with an Olympus C-8080 still camera, and all in, cost us $386. If time were money, however, Id be broke. This thing took forever.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• Cosmo Speedway
• Lights On
• Stop Motion Animation
• Forest Fire
• Wilderness Survival
• Olympus C-8080

[0ojo01]

i have this camera and im 13 years old and i have NO IDEA HOW TO USE IT...like NO IDEA and i love editing videos and photos im really good at photoshop

[MrHowieReed]

The most EPIC music video ever!

[IndieRokker321]

I just discovered this song and I LOVE it!!

[humzzzikle]

this is my new "favorite band"

[Benson0727]

It seen so simple but make the video so beautiful :)

[RamboDuckyclan]

Cant wait until you make your next music video. I hope you make it as good as this one which is EPIC!!!!

-Ryan

[DeusEx3]

AMAZING.

[moapa06]

a music video that took so much time should have lalot of luv!!

[YoSoybeanMusic]

this is beautiful. thank you for existing

[lbooz126]

The video is amazing, Shane! Tell Ali thanks for sharing!