now that's outstanding.

good idea and good directing. well done.

I enjoy the lyrics. Nicely done.

this is awesome

that has to be one of the most original music videos i've seen. very well done!

brilliantly done.

i'm confused! great video

Amazing!

oh wow.


The Mountain Goats annnnnnnd Rian Johnson?!






This is almost more than I can take.

The first time through it was 3 minutes of smiles.
The 6th time it was near tears.

gondry-esk.

love 2:21...the old tube rocks....nice job!

loved it!

How much time did you spend story boarding this? or did everything just work out during production?

nicely done, cool song.

Wow wow wow wow! This is really incredible.

Amazing! Fantastic planning and use of an old idea. Best I've ever seen.

Great video but no special effects??? Don't think so.... This had some serious compositing on it. I can see a few of the transtions in the shots.

very very clever

Clever, well executed, beautiful lighting - Mountain Goats brilliant as always.

Wow. Reminds me of something I might do
only...
1) its well-executed
2) has external value that transcends the margins of basement noodling
3) credible collaborators.

Perfect.

sooo complex. awesome.

Awesome. Freethinking - If I'm not mistaken, the only effect would be well placed fades into a new shot. Had to be pretty hard/well planned to line up the shots to make them so seamless!

great flow man...I like that pensive last shot...kinda funny...but in a perfect way...amazing directing

Mountain Goats kick ass dude. I only have one album. Is this an official album video or just a fan video? I have no idea what they look like. Excellent work.

wow, if there are no special effects than the coordination is amazing!

The video is so captivating that I am not even listening to the song. Nice work.

Words can't begin to explain how awesome this is.

NO WAI!!! This must be the most amazing filming ever!!!

Exceptionally cool.

Very nice job! A well thought out video for editing in the camera.

You must be some kind of a genius to do such an amazing work. The song was right on too.

Great job, Rian...BRICK is a favourite...can't wait to see BLOOM...

beautiful

Could you tell me which camera you've used?

太不可思议了

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its on my blog now.

Very nice. Very true also

Fantastic amazing incredible, a complete delite to the eyes, and to the mind also cause the concept is beautiful .. and really no efects? DAMN.. your the master jejeje

Very cool vid. But filled with effects... To trained eyes. Good job.

This band is fantastic and hysterical at the same time. Ha.Ha.

rian johnson is a talented mofo. so's the geek singing the song. this excites me because it's so beautiful and perfect. i hate everyone associated with this piece.

WOW that was great... well done

Very neat man! The transitions are seamless.

Thanks for all the kind words, folks. For those who are wondering about effects (and I posted this as a response above but I'll cut and paste here too) there was indeed zero compositing. I diagrammed the whole thing out, and we shot the first layer, then played it back on the TV and shot the second layer, and so on. The few funky moments you see are transitions, because once we got 8 layers in the deepest TV layers were too obscured (or degraded I guess), so for a few of the segments we had to be on layer 6 or 7 then transition unseen back to layer 8, which was not easy using only Final Cut Pro's tools and my limited effects knowledge. But they're essentially just hidden cuts, and total post production time was one evening.

Again, thanks for all the encouragement!
-Rian

Woo!! I really like it

Cya.

Awesome editing... didn't like the lyric much though :)

Like

Awesome work. Very well orchestrated. I just saw their tour ender in Bloomington. What greatness!

Simple idea but complex feel

Lovely vid. Very complex set up with the multiple views of the same person! I couldn't figure out how it was done. Simple sweet personality of the singer. Delightful.

How long did it take to plan that out? amazing!

OMG amassing

come on!! tell me your secrets :d

the lyrics and the atmosphere are absolutly awesome!
A beautiefull voice he has!

Beautifully done. I've really been into the idea of playing with transitions on a way that blurs the edited and the actual and I think the way you've gone about this is brilliant. I can't imagine how long it must have taken you to figure out all the layering.

Nice, very god video and song!!

The song left a little to be desired, but I think this is a well made video. It doesn't move the genre past the whole "show a bunch of footage of the band playing instruments and singing a song" part of music videos which is getting a bit tired, but it kept my attention anyway.

The other gripe I have is: who cares whether you used effects or not? That fact shouldn't add to my experience at all. I enjoyed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind just as much before I knew Gondry doesn't use special effects. To be honest, the caption: "shot in-camera with no special effects." was a huge distraction for me. It felt like you were trying to earn street cred' or something. Anybody else feel that way? The fact of the matter is, filmmakers should be using every tool that is available to get the desired effect they want. That may mean After Effects and it may not, but the charm of the finished product should always be about the finished product, not how you made it.

lovely. really lovely. both for the ears and the eyes.

What a treat.

Very cool. For an even bigger challange - try this:

vimeo.com/thirdwave

you weave a wave of magic music loom i not feel so lonely without her

Wonderful. Nice job on the video. Hints of early Paul Simon in the lyrics.

Great job, guys. Keep it up.

Very cool

Brilliant & Creative!

this is so great. simple, but with a awesome result.
congrats!

Its so melodious. You can also upload this on uploaded.tv and gather world wide fame by appearing on real TV.

i love this. i also love the mountain goats. lovely.

I loved the video... I actually liked the lyrics

Nice Lighting, Nice song, nice atmosphere. All right up my street. Well done. Our popular Scottish group Travis, started off with lovely songs like this. Songs that make you drift away somewhere.

Simply amazing. Like an Escher drawing!

Great! Amazing craft! It's hard to create memorable music videos with the budgets of nowadays, and you've done it. Cheers...

man i cant even think how you would go about filimg this..amazing

Perfeito!

ótimo trabalho!

WOW! Talk about breaking the 4th wall.... You've tore down about 16 of them!
The synchronicity of this video is outstanding!

真棒！

Love..........It.

seriously now, there are no special effects whatsoever? if that's the case, then damn good job. ha.

man, i like your stuff

it looks so simply
and the song..
like it

this must have been impossible. Very impressive... Did you use green screens on the television. Seriously GREAT JOB. Absolutely Professional work.

awesome!

layers... i like layers... and in this video they are kind of analog layers wich makes me love it!!

Amazing video! I really enjoyed that a lot.

The more time Rian Johnson spends explaining the lack of special effects, the less time he can spend working on his next movie!

Loved the video, liked the song. Thanks for giving us your thoughts on the process, as well. Peeling back the layers is fun once you've let yourself take it all in.