Star Guitar is a song by The Chemical Brothers recored in 2002. The music video for the song was directed by Michel Gondry. We have already spoke at Gondry in a previous post, after admiring him as a director I now want to analyse some of his work.
Star Guitar is a very fast paced song, it has 126 beats per minute throughout the song, Gondry uses this to his advantage. As we already know Gondry is a bit of a perfectionist, with this song having lots of beats, Gondry conforms to one of "Goodwin's 6" throughout the video, by which every beat is represented by a visual. Similarly to his video for "Daft Punk - Around The World" where he has a human act fom each beat of the song. In Star Guitar he has landmarks to represent each beat.
Gondry claims that he thought of this idea when travelling on the train in France on holiday, after re-watching the footage again he thought it would fit in with this song. The entire song is filmed from one position on one train journey, however Gondry actually travelled along this train line 10 times to get all different shades of lighting for his footage.
This video is not a performance based video, Gondry focusses on a concept and arguably, narrative based video. The video is extremely well constructed and this is why I have chosen to study it. The editing is perfect, the framing of all his shots are just how he desires them to be and he manages to cut on every single beat. In relation to Goodwin's 6, Gondry links the "music to the visual" as you will now know from watching. He has landmarks repeating over and over again to match the timing of the song.
Although we cannot achieve the level of CGI that Gondry has in this video, we hope to create a song with a similar effect of cutting on the beat, I chose this song as I believe it is at the highest level for fine tuning and editing. Clearly this song as achieve great success with over half a million views on YouTube alone. We will continue to use inspiration like this to help aid us in our goal to creating a similar music video.
Ian
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