Dark & Long (Hall's Edit) User Submitted Video Contest

[Lx_Nen]

That's true - with these 'open creative brief' competitions you always run the risk of making something that isn't what they wanted, but for me the new video's visual language has to work with the record sleeve, Kiteless, the Skyscraper book and the original videos, because those things were so closely linked at the time.

Are there really only 4 of us in the competiton? Surely you don't get a name like "rossinabook" without hanging out on here, does anyone want to own up to that one?

[Lx_Nen]

Apparently they wanted a generic 'fit bird in lingerie' soft core porn video. Here's are some stills from the winning entry:

[TheBang]

Yeah, I'm a bit appalled and wonder if UW actually judged this contest themselves? I think I watched about half of the submissions, and there were many that were far superior to this one.

Here's the winner:

http://genero.tv/watch-video/38985

I noticed that they've removed all the Finalist and Winner tags from the videos. Maybe they didn't want to reveal it before it's announce on UW's Facebook? Or maybe they've had a change of heart?

[Lx_Nen]

I really hope that's the case - I watched at least a few seconds of all of them, and apart from the runner up, very few of the finalists struck me as the sort of video the band would pick, or even they best of their particular genre in the competiton. Darktrain.jp would have been my pick as a winner, but it wasn't even a finalist.

If they really did want the sort of video that has close-ups of pretty women putting on lipstick, then this one struck me as much better made, and it has a bit of that 'seaside postcard humour' to it too: http://genero.tv/watch-video/38960

[potatobroth]

i didnt like this video at all (aside from her being cute.) it was way too long in the car, and the cuts seemed random. they sometimes matched the music but often didnt. the creative continuity was bizarre: closeup of putting on lipstick followed by kissing the mannequin and leaving no lipstick marks behind.

all in all, really boring -- but i did like the overall color of the video.

[Resolute]

In the context of the other Dubnobass videos this is.. Bizarre. Oh well.

[negative1]

i'm actually ok with the video, its that it uses
too many cliches (which im guilty of also).

driving, night time, rain, etc.

i wouldnt want to see a video that copies underworlds
original style from that era, because that would be too obvious.

its hard coming up with something original that works.

new order had that problem with the new versions
of ceremony and temptation.

later
-1

[Lx_Nen]

The soft core porn one did win, and it's now 'premiered on UnderworldVEVO'.

At the risk of it sounding like sour grapes, this is so deeply at odds with the band's usual visual style that I can't help thinking Universal Music had a lot more to do with this choice than Rick and Karl did.

[TheBang]

Universal's only a distributor. I don't think they're making any creative decisions on anything.

I wouldn't be surprised, however, if it were Genero.tv staff who picked everything.

[Dirty0900]

Meh, music videos aren't the same as they used to be.

1) Don't watch.
2) Go back in time and make a better one