FPM: Different Colours

I was recently looking for music videos for Fantastic Plastic Machine, a J-pop DJ/Artist that I absolutely love. Different Colours is definitely my favourite one.

Struggling to tie image and sound together cohesively in my own project at the moment, the video is a source of guidance and inspiration because what you see totally reflects what you hear. The quirky, cheerful music is reflected in the light-hearted, crazy adventure of a little girl that finds herself chasing a Louis Vitton panda into another dimension after it takes her cell phone from her.

You can notice some very good use of visual depth cues (even if I myself can’t figure out how to use them well), resulting in the viewer feeling like they are also flying down the LV-pattern tunnel, floating in the bubble world, and peeking right around the shop window into the outside world. I’m a far shot from creating a fully fleshed environment with an elaborate sense of depth like this video, but it’s still a nice video to look at critically.