Review: Ratatat - Drugs

Well, what can I say? Yet another hard-to-watch video from the director and producer, Carl Burgess. I'll give him his credit, it's pretty cool how he produces the track to interact in collision with the video. There are many segments within this production that are fascinating to the eye, and I only noticed them from when I watched the video for about the 7th time.

Throughout this video we see a selection of emotions being portrayed from a wide variety of people. Some older, some younger, male, female, groups. Pretty much every emotion possible is in the production.

Ratatat - Drugs

In this production, all of the characters were allowed to keep their own clothes on, as opposed to being given them by the production crew. With this, you can see that they are 100% being themselves and I think this is a great thing to portray when you are giving away your emotions. 

Another thing that is quite a discreet yet effective edit throughout the production is the slight hint of smoke being blown behind them. This gives the video that little bit of depth that we don't normally see with this kind of layout. I think it's really creative that Burgess has done this and I really admire him for that. When doing my own edit for this video we did in class, I also put a slight smoke effect in the background and it really made the video look special. My video is available to view here: https://vimeo.com/79204083

Screen caps of the production

I noticed when I was doing the screen shots above that the camera angle changes during a distinctive emotion. The more happier people seem to be as a medium shot, and the people looking more content, upset or angry seem to have an extreme close up shot. I think this is because happiness is easy to spot, whereas people will need to study more into what other emotions are. The cheesy smiles would be too much to handle if they were close to the camera, like the woman in the middle-left photo. Too close, too close.

Overall, I think this video is edited and created very well. Carl Burgess did an excellent job at displaying people's emotions and feelings in the most creative and dignified way possible. 

Cheerio. :o)

- Olivia.