December 2011
11 posts
10 days of YYC's favorite videos: Day 9
What’s more fun than kids shooting zombies? Kids teaching zombies to dance then shooting them with cardboard guns to a catchy little pop song.
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What makes this a really great music video is that it is just plain fun. They take a lot of popular elements like zombies, kids being heroes, a grindhouse aesthetic, and dancing and combine them into one fantastic adventure that’s...
10 days of YYC's favorite videos: Day 8
This short film is decidedly more macabre than any of the others on this list, but I’ve come back to it several times this year. It hooks me on multiple levels: the score is eerily gorgeous (or maybe gorgeously haunting), the animation is fantastic, and in the span of a few minutes, it makes me care about these creatures and their creator.
It also hooks me as a tribute to Jim Henson,...
10 Days of YYC's favorite videos: Day 7
So we got a little caught up in the holidays and failed to post the past 2 days. Shopping, eating, family… can you blame us?
I imagine if you are reading this, you are taking a quick breather from all of the excitement of the holidays so I’ll make sure to keep this brief and allow you to get back to the festivities.
[[MORE]]My brother Bryant is a huge Coldplay fan so naturally he...
10 Days of YYC's favorite videos: Day 6
If you can watch this and not be mesmerized, you’ve seen a lot cooler stuff in your life than I have.[[MORE]]
I’ve always been obsessed with manipulating straightforward filming techniques to create something unique. Stop-motion, slow-motion, animation, CG … as much as I love really good, solid, linear storytelling, there’s something special about people creating things...
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10 Days of YYC's favorite videos: Day 5
Ahhhhhh! There are so many really amazing videos that I want to share. We should have called these on going write-ups, “1,000 Days of YYC’s favorite videos.” However, we chose 10, so David and I will have to choose carefully. This one is definitely a favorite for us both…
Anna Sun, by Walk the Moon, is really an incredible song. It’s the type of music that causes...
10 Days of YYC's favorite videos: Day 4
This video is directed by a duo named Daniels. They’ve had a huge influence on us this year, so they may well pop up on this top-10 list one or two more times over the next week. Their brand of off-beat (maybe even a tad dark) humor resonates pretty closely to Tyler and I on the funny-bone spectrum. They cook up great ideas, execute them well (and, until this year, on very small budgets),...
10 Days of YYC's favorite videos: Day 3
This video came to me a while back and I quickly fell in love. Some people might consider me a bit of a romantic and occasionally a bit of a loner, so after the first minute or so I was hooked. I assumed something great was going to happen to this poor lonely guy, but I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because I’ve seen enough movies to know better or maybe it was the music that had...
10 Days of YYC's favorite videos: Day 2
Yesterday, Tyler mentioned we would be sharing some videos that have influenced us over the past year. He led off with a really sweet stop-motion video. If you missed that post, check it out.
Here’s my submission for Day 2 (forgive the ad … I wish that could be bypassed):
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10 Days of YYC's favorite videos
For the next 10 days leading up to Christmas, we are going to share with you guys some of our favorite videos that have done at least one, if not all, of the following:
Inspired us to create
Forced ourselves to learn a new technical skill
Made us laugh
Gave us chills
Motivated us to push our creative limits
Caused us to argue about “How in the world they did that?!?!”
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Thank you
Yeah Yeah Creative’s first anniversary came and went a month or so ago, and we considered sending out thank-you notes to all the folks who we’ve had the pleasure to work with in the past year. Then we thought, “Hey, we have truly terrible handwriting. Let’s make a thank-you video instead.”
As were putting together ideas for the video, the thank-you brainstorming...
Brian & Emily :: Wedding Highlights
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Brian (of Brian and Emily) and Tyler and I (of YYC) go way back. We got to hang with him in high school while running cross country and playing baseball and soccer. Needless to say, Brian is a sports nut.
When Brian and Emily asked us to film their wedding, we were honored and excited for a couple of reasons: One, he found someone who loves sports as much (more?) than he does. We...