BEA.ST

Credits
Directed and Choreographed by Eric Gunther, Jeff Lieberman, and Ok Go

Produced by Shirley Moyers

Director of Photography Jeff Lieberman and Yon Thomas

Edited by Jeff Lieberman and Eric Gunther

Camera Operated by Kevin Yoshimitsu and Jeff Lieberman

Media Managed by Nathan Truesdell

Awards

Best International Video at the UK Music Video Awards

Based on our earlier work with Here the Nothing, Eric and I expanded on our time-stretching techniques, this time stretching and squashing at a multiple of rates, all aligned to the band OK GO dancing and lip syncing for one continuous romp through Echo Park, Los Angeles, while singing their song “End Love.”

The fastest we record is 172,800x, compressing 24 hours of real time into a blazing 1/2 second. The slowest is 1/32x speed, stretching a mere 1/2 second of real time into a whopping 16 seconds. This gives us a fastest to slowest ratio of 5.5 million. If you like averages, the average speed up factor of the band dancing is 270x. In total we shot 18 hours of the band dancing and 192 hours of LA skyline timelapse - over a million frames of video - and compressed it all down to 4 minutes and 30 seconds! Oh, and notice that it's one continuous camera shot.

We also made a special friend in the process. Her name is Orange Bill and she's a goose. You will agree that she clearly has a future in music videos.