Radiohead - I Will (Tribute Music Video)

Here is my first completed animation, it is a Radiohead tribute music video I made for a College project at the South East Essex College in Southend-on-Sea, It took 2 Months of research and idea developement and 4 weeks to make it in, I used monoprints and real footage from the internet to help portray the lyric meaning and emotions in the song I Will, I deliberately made it 4 frames persecond looped to fit the guitar melody and used simple silhouettes and linear imagery, to tell the story.

Lyrics:

I will
lay me down
in a bunker
underground
i won't let this happen to my children
meet the real world coming out of your shell
with white elephants
sitting ducks
i will
rise up
little babies eyes eyes eyes eyes
little babies eyes eyes eyes eyes
little babies eyes eyes eyes eyes
little babies eyes eyes eyes

From a Radiohead Interview:
Interviewer: "It sounds lovely, but you've said it was the angriest thing you've ever written."
Thom: "Yes. Well, yeah, I guess it is. It's quite simple really. I had an extremely unhealthy obsession that ran through the Kid A thing about the first Gulf War. When they started it up, they did that lovely thing of putting a camera on the end of the missile, and um, you got to see the wonders of modern military technology blow up this bunker.
And then sometime afterwards in the back pages, it was announced that that bunker was not full of weapons at all -- but women and children. And it was actually a bomb shelter.
And so, everybody, we all got to witness the wonders of modern technology. And um, I, you know, it ran through so much stuff for so long for me -- I just could not, um, get that out of my head. It was so sick. And so that's where that anger comes from."
(XFM interview, spring 2003)

"As a song it's sort of like a love song, but it's also sort of the angriest thing I've ever written as well. That sort of anger, that you can't even begin to express. This thing about 'you can do anything you want to me, but if you come after my family I will kill you.' You know, that sort of thing, which everyone has in them, I think." (official Hail to the Thief interview CD, April 2003)

Music:

Radiohead - I Will
Radiohead - Idioteque

Inspirations:
-Radiohead
-The Iron Giant
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ytcEWAZOXnQ
-Grave of the fire flies
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yO8DeXyl7eY&feature=related
-When The Wind Blows
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ntI-7vR2zRs
-Murders of crows
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AtEqMBJ1HG4
-Father & Daughter
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hb-0Py80cMY

All credit to Radiohead,

and some to everyone that was there for me during the making of this music video

Joshua Forman 2007

tribute video poster here:

http://silentscarecrow.deviantart.com/art/Radiohead-I-Will-Poster-82666677