OK Go!-- November 14th

     Trevor and Will were a wonderful duo to present OK Go!. They revealed the lively hood of this band in an energetic and entertaining manner just as the works of OK Go! behave. For once, we had an opportunity to study music videos and analyze their different forms (performative, narrative, or experimental)-- THANK YOU!!! As I reflect upon my notes from this presentation, I cannot help but giggle at the fact I wrote, "Here It Goes Again actually inspires me to utilize my Planet Fitness membership." Watching their music videos from the beginning of their career to the current day was an interesting phenomenon. In their first films, you can visualize their admiration with the single long take as well as choreography (dance), but there is a visual makeshiftness to it which provides an amateur virtuosity to it. As their career and fame progressed, you could visualize the dissolving of amateur filmmaking and its visual makeshiftness and a rise of interest in exploring the complexity of a long take alongside complex choreography of people, sets, and camera movement. I also adore the intersection of marketing with experimental films because they are devying the odds that are stacked against them. I highly respect this band because of their influence on society as experimental filmmakers with a financial stability. The preparation involved in this film is reminiscent of the effort of the structural film movement (ex. Paul Scharits). I adore how Trevor ended it by stating they are "wiggles on crack," although I would have liked to hear about OK Go!'s live video tours. It would have been interesting to see if it is truly a music concert, a music video concert, or a music video with an installation component. Maybe this is something worth exploring for my group's live installation with a musical component project.