Inspiration

http://okgo.net/

I think that OK Go is much more than those videos. The band’s frontman Damian Kulash sometimes makes big declarations like “We’re trying to be a DIY band in a post-major label world” or “Our whole bag is having good ideas and making cool stuff.” This is the exact attitude the band themselves have towards there music and the industry. I think picking this band Ok Go is a good source of inspiration as they are a bit different from the traditional commercial band--they try to be as creative and unique as possible in many situlation from there songs to the globally famous videos. We decided as a group to research into the band in further detail to find out the meaning and understand were the band came from and the story behind the videos.

But despite the funny, unique music videos, that exuberant buzz has spilled across the globe. But don’t let that distract you, the best part of OK Go is still the music.A quote from the band in the reasonings behind there music videos "It has always been our position that the reason you wind up in a rock band is you want to make stuff. You want to do creative things for a living."

OK Go is an American alternative rock band originally from Chicago, Illinois, but now residing in Los Angeles, California. Made up of four band members Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka ,Damian Kulash and Andy Ross. This orginally formed in 1998, won a Grammy award in 2007 for there video music of "Here It Goes Again"
Oh No gained popularity for its first single, "A Million Ways", in 2005. The video featured the band in their back yard performing a dance choreographed by lead singer Kulash's sister, Trish Sie. By August 2006, the video had become the most downloaded music video ever with over 9 million downloads. The band performed the dance live on British TV show Soccer AM, as well as on the late-night American comedy show.

We wanted to take inspiration from there videos as we found the pure creativeness and individual style they have unique. There daring nature, sets them apart from the other mainsteam artists--they're there own people. This was a deffo a sense we wanted in our video and after discussion with the band they were too. We really like the stop motion that featured in there End of Love video-this was when they did a series of different movements-kind of like a dance routine but really slowly and taking photos every second. This created a clever but doable technique we could copy. Although we would need to make the movements more simple-in order for it not to look messy, but as affective as possible. We hope to do a series of different test shots that would include jumping, arm/leg movements and stretches, this would give  us more of any idea to see whether or not it is possible to do and if it looks good. This will also give us an idea to see what kind of movements work best.