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You might have heard about this already but in case you haven’t you should know. Back in November Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, Washington produced a music video to Outkast’s song “Hey Ya!” The 4 minute long video was recorded in one continuous with no cuts or edits. 200 students were involved to create what I consider an amazing display of cooperation and synchronization. The fact that it was shot in one 4 minute shot alone is hard to fathom, not to mention walking through the school through 200 kids.
A little over a month later Shorewood High School, a longtime rival school of Shorecrest in sports and band decided to show them up by releasing their own music video to Hall and Oates’ “You Make My Dreams Come True.” What’s even more amazing about their video is that it is shot in reverse. All of the students learned to lip sync the song backwards. After seeing OneManSho’s sing songs in reverse that aspect of it is not quite as impressive to me, not to discredit them though. I’m sure it isn’t an easy thing to do, but it seems less difficult after previously seeing this done.
Either way both videos are amazingly well-done.
I have worked with video recording, production, and have studied film and am more aware of the level of difficulty involved in shooting a 4 minute long continuous shot. I think that is the most amazing thing of all when watching these videos.
Shorecrest High School | Outkast – Hey Ya!
Shorewood High School | Hall and Oates – You Make My Dreams Come True
There is a poll up on King5.com for people to vote for the video they think is the best. I personally like the one by Shorecrest better because I love the song “Hey Ya!”, and I don’t like the song by the other school at all. I also think they didn’t do that great in lip syncing the song, granted it was done backwards, it decreases the quality of the video.
This isn’t over yet though. Shorecrest has stated that they are already working on their next video but are keeping quiet about what they have planned. It will be interesting to see how far this goes and what they come up with.
I wish I were growing up in the age of technology, like teenagers are today. When I was in high school we had old Macintosh computers that we used in “computer class”, which was called Keyboarding. Yeah, learning how to type. I’m only 26, so it’s not like I’m old, but we sure as hell didn’t learn how to do advanced video editing and producing like this. They even teach web and graphic design in high school these days. If I started doing that back then, I would know so much more, and be so far beyond the point I’m at now in my abilities. Kids today don’t know how well they have it, and they take it for granted. OMG I’m starting to sound like my mother. Dammit!
So which video do you think is better?
Post a comment below stating who you’d vote for.
