Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video

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2011/03/30 11:15:56 (permalink)

Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video

Come "window shop" a lil while with Distant Towers ......


http://www.soundclick.com...ideos&vidID=169047
post edited by thepogue - 2011/03/30 11:17:23
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    morenoise
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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/03/30 11:42:40 (permalink)
    Hi Tom, this is a very professional piece of music. Did you write the music before or after the video was made ?

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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/03/30 14:58:22 (permalink)
    Yes.....we put this together and then hunt down something visual to match....this is our normal course with all our musical/video projects. As you can see this award winning video mated fairly well and Rodrigo Blaas has a masterpiece on his hands!

    Congrats to Rodrigo and crew for the outstanding work!!
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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/03/30 17:12:25 (permalink)
    Very Very Good!

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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/03/30 20:51:47 (permalink)
    That was very entertaining. I was jamming along so I really didn't catch that much of the video. Love your augmented progression ( Very Tasty ). Rewinding the video now ... Cool yeah that fits very well! It's just missing the sign - "Shoplifters will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law" Great work as always! 

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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/03/30 21:17:30 (permalink)
    Wow!  This was terrific.  Ab'fab music, musical performance, video and production.  Very professional indeed.
     
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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/03/30 21:28:00 (permalink)
    Excellent!

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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/03/30 22:06:25 (permalink)
    Well thanks Tom... I'll probably have nightmares tonight...
    the music is perfect for this video, and they're both outstanding...
    and maybe just a little disturbing... I'd love to know how you guys hooked up this the animator and how you make it work so well...   
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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/03/30 22:50:58 (permalink)
    Out of this world outrageous.

    Man, you guys knock me out - this is really poweful both musically and visually.

    Tom, you guys are fantastic.

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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/03/31 23:17:37 (permalink)
    You guys are flat out amazing. Sooo strange . So awesome. I watched this with the little lady and my ten year old son and we all loved it. The music is super good and whoever did the animation and came up with the story has talent and then some. I knew something bizzare was gonna happen to that little boy and I was saying no ..no man don't touch the damn doll. Excellent A+++
     
     
    I'd be curious to know if there was any influence for the part where he touches the doll from pagey's scene in the song remains the same that occurs during the bow solo where he scales the mountain and touches the older incarnation of himself.
    post edited by rhynosynth - 2011/03/31 23:28:49
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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/04/01 00:20:18 (permalink)
    Holy stinkin' mackerel!  I believe I have a new DT favorite.  The music and the video held me captive for the whole 5 min.  I'm talking UPTOWN, totally pro production.  Congrats!!

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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/04/01 09:07:54 (permalink)
    Thanks for all the feedback....we really enjoyed working on Storybook. But this baby sings due to the great animation work.....and as in the past I mainly use the Behnace Network for making contacts for much of our video/animation/still picture work. And to answer the "hey how did you do that"? kinda stuff in a word, "luck" (and about 100 hours of leg work). The story line of this particular video and tune just seemed to click. In the past I've had to do more than a bit of editing to make the whole thing mesh..the down side of that is that I've had to work with animators/producers/video guys (after the fact) that have a much better eye then I (and to be blunt I'm a video editing novice at best) and that puts me in the hot seat so I'd not muck their great work to make it jive with a particular tune...but this time out I spent very little time to make it work (hence the "Luck" part)

    Thanks again!
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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/04/01 09:44:36 (permalink)
    This is excellent!  Love the drums especially.  You guys are all pro.

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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/04/01 09:59:43 (permalink)
    Preston Richardson does a great job on the kit for sure...and we very much enjoy having him jump aboard for the ride!
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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/04/03 13:50:33 (permalink)
    Wow!  Great work, gentlemen.

    As everyone else has said, this is totally topnotch and pro in every possible way.

    And sorta creepy in the best possible way

    Great playing on everyone's part...I'm listening on laptop speakers and it still sounds killer.

    Outstanding.

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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/04/03 16:45:33 (permalink)
    Really fine choice of visuals for this song. Always nice to re-listen to a song like this too, what jumped out this time was the 'call and response' guitar/lead/vocals effects section round about 2:50 - masterful.

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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/04/03 21:31:30 (permalink)
    Wow--you guys are good.  Most likely with 100 people, you'd get 100 ideas of how to add 'sound' to this clip.  Yours is exceptionally well-done. 


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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/04/08 02:51:45 (permalink)
    Hey, Tom,
     
    You DT guys never cease to amaze me with your incredible creativity!
     
    Very cool video, and man, I really do love that song.  It's definitely one of my all time favorites from you guys.
     
    Outstanding work, have a good one!
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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/04/08 08:19:29 (permalink)
    Tom , WOW ...
    nice clean chord progression & musical thematic development
    the music sounded effing great & gelled w the vid perfectly

    imho, the video has an archetypal universal emotionally charged story
    i was  able to become empathetic with the lead characters quest / journey
    this led me through a number of  emotions that i could explore safely 
    the desire to seek companionship , the initial attraction , after  finding, the temporally loosing the opportunity due to a closed door , perseverance , dealing with the peripherals & dynamics of the extended social climate , risking intimacy, the sensation of  touch , establishing the connection, the awakening......... then  ultimately a transformation......and a bunch of other interpitive jazz my mind ran with ...lol
    after all of that , she was alone on display looking kinda super freaky lol
    oh boy ,,i got to stop now before i get too mental ....
    very nice two thumbs up

    Kenny
      
     


    post edited by kennywtelejazz - 2011/04/08 08:21:42

                       
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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/04/11 13:16:19 (permalink)

    A Macabre Rocker.  You guys play with such intensity.  Well done vid too.  You look younger in the video than i thought you were.

    Your hard work is very apparent.  Very nice

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    Re:Distant Towers - New "Storybook" Video 2011/04/11 16:11:58 (permalink)
    I liked this one.
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