Arctic Monkeys - Do I wanna Know By David Wilson

Do I wanna Know?


This is what production company Colonel Blimp has to say about it;

"David's latest video doesn't merely accompany the track, it forms an inseparable and particularly mesmerising part of the music itself. Taking his skill for interpreting a track through surrealist and seamlessly flowing animations up a notch by, paradoxically, limiting his ingredients to simple lines and a handful of colours, he uses the track's baseline as the foundation for an infinite dimension where choreography, drag racing and illustrative sound waves happily coexist."
sited 13:48 16/10/2013 from http://www.colonelblimp.com/#!project_arcticmonkeys-doiwannaknow?_2723

In my opinion Colonel Blimp, the production company of this video sums up this video more eloquently than I ever could. It's very true that what makes this video so effective is the striking minimalism on screen, the emphasis of the bassline providing what can only be compared to as a caviar or visual taste matching the lobster of a song. I love how it flows and progresses into colour and highspeed track racing, women and all manner of things that reek the essence of cool. It fits the song perfectly.

I decided to look into this David Wilson bloke only to discover that he himself had also directed the video for Tame Impala's song Mind Mischief.



Although I think this is a great piece of work, I don't think it fits as beautifully as the video does for Do I wanna Know. I really enjoyed the story line and the hazy 1970's school boy filming but I don't think the animation was as strong. Although the visual imagery captured the playfulness of the situation with the style of line and block colour. I think the psychedelic side of it was just a bit too serious and didn't work with it. It also strongly reminded me of the visuals from Youth in Revolt when Micheal Cera's character takes mushrooms across between the opening scene of Grease which crinkled his originality with this one for me. I don't think this video lived up to the song.

I also looked a few other pieces of his work and I think that Do I wanna Know is his best piece by far, although my opinion may be slightly clouded by the poetic beauty of the song itself.

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