I can't believe it has taken me a week to discuss One Direction's "You & I" music video.
It's amaZAYN, phenomeNIALL, BrilLIAM, fabuLOUIS, and extraordinHARRY. Yes, I just did that.
The video takes place on a mile long pier with a pretty grey color scheme, although the five boys brighten up the screen with their gorgeous faces.
It starts with Niall, singing his solo. Liam follows Niall, but instead of just having Liam come up on the screen, Ben Winston, being the excellent director that he is, morphs each member into the next. Niall looks down and becomes Liam as he looks up. Liam moves his hand down in front of his face and becomes Harry. Harry turns around and becomes Zayn (this part gives me goosebumps because the music changes and I think it is the best morph done in the whole video). Zayn turns to the side and becomes Louis. And Louis places his hand directly in front of his face to go back to Harry.
But there has been a lot of talk that One Direction has "plagiarized" Australian company Oh Yeah Wow's "freeze frame effect," which they claim they created.
I think if anyone created the "freeze frame" it would be the J. Geils Band.
That's my sense of humor.
But really, the idea of freeze framing has been around for a long time. Nice try!
Yes, plagiarism is an issue we need to watch out for these days since the creation of computers and the internet, but I don't think I see plagiarism here, I see this as imitation. Isn't imitation the finest form of flattery?
Leave my Brits alone.
It's amaZAYN, phenomeNIALL, BrilLIAM, fabuLOUIS, and extraordinHARRY. Yes, I just did that.
The video takes place on a mile long pier with a pretty grey color scheme, although the five boys brighten up the screen with their gorgeous faces.
It starts with Niall, singing his solo. Liam follows Niall, but instead of just having Liam come up on the screen, Ben Winston, being the excellent director that he is, morphs each member into the next. Niall looks down and becomes Liam as he looks up. Liam moves his hand down in front of his face and becomes Harry. Harry turns around and becomes Zayn (this part gives me goosebumps because the music changes and I think it is the best morph done in the whole video). Zayn turns to the side and becomes Louis. And Louis places his hand directly in front of his face to go back to Harry.
But there has been a lot of talk that One Direction has "plagiarized" Australian company Oh Yeah Wow's "freeze frame effect," which they claim they created.
I think if anyone created the "freeze frame" it would be the J. Geils Band.
That's my sense of humor.
But really, the idea of freeze framing has been around for a long time. Nice try!
Yes, plagiarism is an issue we need to watch out for these days since the creation of computers and the internet, but I don't think I see plagiarism here, I see this as imitation. Isn't imitation the finest form of flattery?
Leave my Brits alone.
[Source: YouTube]
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