I think you guys have revived what music videos were all about. The level of creativity and technical elegance is just wonderful. You got me to want to watch music videos again.
I was always amazed at those crowds in sport stadiums that hold up signs to spell or to visualize things, when I saw the video I knew that had to be an inspiration. Very smart to play it at half-speed, I kinda noticed it when watching the video since it was kinda... it stuttered a little, but at the big scenes you couldn't tell a thing. Amazing!
This is how you do great advertisement. They used something as part of an "ad", but it still works as an art piece on its own merit. They didn't compromise their integrity, and it wholly adds to the experience.
4 questions. 1) How the FREAK did they do that cool thing at the end when they made the images with the umbrellas? 2)Who else has a HUMONGOUS crush on Damian? 3)Where did they even get that many "Future Chairs" from? Was this a sponsored video or what? 4)Where the HELL did they get that much space to make those really big images at the end with the army of girls with different colored umbrellas and they made the title and stuff like that out of umbrellas?
1) It's called "mass games". google it, It's pretty neat 2)Yes. 3) I don't think it was sponsored, I think it was just "with support" from Honda. 4) Damian said in BTS (can't remember which) that it was filmed in an abandoned parking lot.
1. I would guess that they use a computer to draw the images as a grid where each i, j position is either on or off. It's complicated looking at it overall, but each person just has to know the sequence for their position. Off off on off off on off etc. Every person doing their own sequence gets you the desired image.
If I had to direct this I would too use a computer program to generate some sort of pixelated/color coded video. I'd then get a device for each person which would display an individualized track of OPEN/CLOSE sequences for each person. This way nobody would have to remember any timing, and just follow the devices instructions under the umbrella. If they can afford this many honda chairs, they should be able to afford that kind of tech as well. This would eliminate the cost of everyone practicing their choreo for months. People would just be playing "Umbrella Hero".
+Ziggonat No CGI at all. One take, reguardless of how many takes it took, still one take. They used a program to show what it would look like but everything was executed by real people in real time. Only sped up so everything looked nicer in the video
03:49 - seems Nocchi really had to write on that clapperboard each take. I don't know why that amuses me so much. It's such an unceremonious cameo, imagine how much time they must've spent just sitting around, haha.
Thanks for the behind the scenes vid. It was great seeing this in actual time in some scenes. I am fascinated by the amount of time you guys take to create one piece of art.
no CG, people are great so amzing, just sad the video cant reach 1 billion views, u guys (ok go) always out of the box and i love all ur work at first sight, keep do amazing work guys :)
Sepharig Gaming with "the original take" i just mean this one but in original speed...i'm very interested to see how everyone acted with the slow music in the background :)
If you download the VLC player (free), you can slow down the footage yourself. Where the little bar moves across the screen, there are arrows that you can click.
Still not buying it. If anything this makes me more skeptical, I have a hard time believing they really got hundreds of those things. They could have cgi'd this as well.
Thats a lot of effort and money to CG people in a 'making of' video that not many people will watch. I think you're being skeptical for the sake of being skeptical at this point.
It's so refreshing to see @OKGo sitting in a video instead of paint gunned, batting beach balls, treadmilling, or blasted into smithereens by Muppets. Love "I Won't Let You Down"
Damian and Tim I just love this. This is amazing. I would like to get my class of 13 year olds (30 students) to do something like this for our Celebration Of Learning (Maths) showing the sequence of Square Numbers and/or Triangular Numbers. We've got the drone and the 30 umbrellas are easy. I just need to work on the music, lyrics and choreography. Lol
this is a 3 year old comment but I figured I'd reply anyways lol, pretty sure they get most of their funding through sponsors! In this case it was Honda. they've also done one advertising for chevy using their car, and another morton salt.
You show up with hundreds of umbrella's and you're surprised you got rain?? LOL Hey, the universe is listening and just trying to support you! hehee. LOVE YOUR WORK!!!!
I have a broken leg, I spent 2 months waiting for surgery since I had a lot of inflammation, finally they I got my bones fixed with a plate and I have to wait two or three more months for them to heal, so I guess an uniclub would be better than my wheel chair lol
It's all real umbrellas, folks. The entire video is exactly as it appears. They could afford all of those mobile-chairs and things cuz of their partnership with Honda. It's thanks to that that videos like this and Needing/Getting are possible.
Garrett Randall I can see the central dozen but 3000+ scooters at (I'm guessing from segway pricing) 10 grand a pop...even to borrow, I don't think there are that many. When I see more camera angles I'll believe it.
3:18 how ironic that a video featuring hundreds of umbrellas was delayed by rain lol
rockerseven well they did explain that the ‘chairs’ they used cant be used under rain
@@kwyite nah
김테리 they did, trust me
@@kwyite plz.. that's just joke
김테리 sorry lol, didnt realize that
If only they had some umbrellas when it rained.
The reveal that the 1000+ dancers at the end was COMPLETELY REAL blew my mind! I always figured that specifically was CGI.
I also thought the same thing🫠
And all on those Honda wheel things!
OK GO makes the best music videos. You guys are in a league of your own.
Better than Michael Jackson back in the day? ;)
I think you guys have revived what music videos were all about. The level of creativity and technical elegance is just wonderful. You got me to want to watch music videos again.
Just stunning how everything is just one take!
素晴らしいMVで大好きです。定期的に見に来てしまいます。感動です！！
"Our videos usually start from pretty simple ideas" Show me one effing video of OKGO that is simple
Skyscrapers.
Treadmills...
I was always amazed at those crowds in sport stadiums that hold up signs to spell or to visualize things, when I saw the video I knew that had to be an inspiration. Very smart to play it at half-speed, I kinda noticed it when watching the video since it was kinda... it stuttered a little, but at the big scenes you couldn't tell a thing. Amazing!
What a creative Honda ad.
This is how you do great advertisement. They used something as part of an "ad", but it still works as an art piece on its own merit. They didn't compromise their integrity, and it wholly adds to the experience.
Very Beautiful Work !!!
There are more "Behind the Scenes" coming for this one, right? Gimmee MOAR!!!
4 questions.
1) How the FREAK did they do that cool thing at the end when they made the images with the umbrellas?
2)Who else has a HUMONGOUS crush on Damian?
3)Where did they even get that many "Future Chairs" from? Was this a sponsored video or what?
4)Where the HELL did they get that much space to make those really big images at the end with the army of girls with different colored umbrellas and they made the title and stuff like that out of umbrellas?
im guessing LOTS of practice and order and patience
1) It's called "mass games". google it, It's pretty neat
2)Yes.
3) I don't think it was sponsored, I think it was just "with support" from Honda.
4) Damian said in BTS (can't remember which) that it was filmed in an abandoned parking lot.
1. I would guess that they use a computer to draw the images as a grid where each i, j position is either on or off. It's complicated looking at it overall, but each person just has to know the sequence for their position. Off off on off off on off etc. Every person doing their own sequence gets you the desired image.
this comment is from four years ago but man is it still a mood 😭😭😭
If I had to direct this I would too use a computer program to generate some sort of pixelated/color coded video. I'd then get a device for each person which would display an individualized track of OPEN/CLOSE sequences for each person. This way nobody would have to remember any timing, and just follow the devices instructions under the umbrella. If they can afford this many honda chairs, they should be able to afford that kind of tech as well. This would eliminate the cost of everyone practicing their choreo for months. People would just be playing "Umbrella Hero".
-Hey, Tim
-Yeah, Damian?
-I could use an umbrella.
-Let me get you one **nyooom**
-Ta-da
This was the best music video i seen for a long time.
the rain was probably a blessing in disguise, post rain sky is absolutely beautiful
Wait... Are all the dancers in the video actually real? No CGI? In one take?
+Ziggonat No CGI at all. One take, reguardless of how many takes it took, still one take. They used a program to show what it would look like but everything was executed by real people in real time. Only sped up so everything looked nicer in the video
That is really impressive even by OK GO's standards.
+Ziggonat I literally thought the same thing... I usually just leave the behind the scenes to videos as movie magic but I had to know... and they are
127 takes :O
I think they meant to say "one continuous take" as in there being no cuts.
03:49 - seems Nocchi really had to write on that clapperboard each take. I don't know why that amuses me so much. It's such an unceremonious cameo, imagine how much time they must've spent just sitting around, haha.
I love that they always put so much work into their videos
Really beautiful and complex composition. Amazing work, guys.
Thanks for posting the 'behind-the-scenes' footage guys.
Amazing and innovative. You guys are fantastic. We need more of this kind of stuff in the world.
You guys are beyond amazing. Keep the wonderful videos coming!
Thanks for the behind the scenes vid. It was great seeing this in actual time in some scenes. I am fascinated by the amount of time you guys take to create one piece of art.
no CG, people are great so amzing, just sad the video cant reach 1 billion views, u guys (ok go) always out of the box and i love all ur work at first sight, keep do amazing work guys :)
It wasn't CGI! I'm so happy :') You guys are such a huge inspiration, love your work!
im hoping that they're gonna upload the original take
Wait what happened in the original take?
Sepharig Gaming
with "the original take" i just mean this one but in original speed...i'm very interested to see how everyone acted with the slow music in the background :)
Oh okay sorry I was confused. I wanna see that too as well as all the different camera angles like they did for "The Writing's on the Wall."
If you download the VLC player (free), you can slow down the footage yourself. Where the little bar moves across the screen, there are arrows that you can click.
***** You can do that in RUclips, also. Click on the little gear and change the video speed.
Guys, I really love all your videos! They're all pieces of art.
And it's so to see all the 'behind the scenes' stuff.
incredibly amazing - well done
MAN! I am a big fan! Incredible work!
Debieron subtitular el vídeo para los fans de México, ya que por mi parte no entiendo al 100% el ingles... pero excelente videoclip LOS FELICITO!!
Absolutely nuts!
Awesome and amazing
SO MUCH WORK! OMG!
4:03 damn! They're all real. Freakin awesome!
Still not buying it. If anything this makes me more skeptical, I have a hard time believing they really got hundreds of those things. They could have cgi'd this as well.
You ever seen bands perform during half time shows at football games? It's the same concept. Not that it makes this video any less impressive.
Thats a lot of effort and money to CG people in a 'making of' video that not many people will watch. I think you're being skeptical for the sake of being skeptical at this point.
you can see around at 4:20 the yellow group trying to get into position it kind of amused me haha
johnny Smith i
You guys put some much work into your material, this stuff really is artistic
these videos are insanely good
FANTASTIC
These guys are next-level genius.
Amazing work and Awesome MasterShot!!!
I love you guys!!!
Epic video !!! Congratulations from Brazil :)
You guys, always bring us surprise!
Every time I see the video I am amazed.
Damn, Just damn.
ありがとうございます～(´∀｀*)ﾉｼ Go! OK Go! GO! Perfume！！Go 関さん！
so close to 1 million views
so awesome!!!!!!!
이분들 진짜... 대단하신 분들이다... 존경 받을만한 뮤지션!
amazing guys!
this is so beautiful!!!!
I can't believe... These is whole damn new level of artism...
blown away
Fantastic!
Great JOB !!!!
This video is so cool..! I really like it. It's amazing.!
Perfume!!!😍😍😍
Love it
Perfume brought me here.
Same. They weren't even mentioned here though! Everybody probably thinks they're just part of the filming crew.
These guys are not musicians, they are artists!
It's so refreshing to see @OKGo sitting in a video instead of paint gunned, batting beach balls, treadmilling, or blasted into smithereens by Muppets.
Love "I Won't Let You Down"
I'm nearing 70 and gotta say there hasn't been even one OK Go video which didn't leave me smiling throughout. Thanks guys!
Truly incredible stuff!
Pharell should work with that Japanese guy - they wear big hats after all.
Amazing stuff.
Love you guys
This is sooo cool. I definitely could tell it was sped up espcially when you guys leave the building :P SOOOO cool how it all came together :D
Damian and Tim I just love this. This is amazing. I would like to get my class of 13 year olds (30 students) to do something like this for our Celebration Of Learning (Maths) showing the sequence of Square Numbers and/or Triangular Numbers. We've got the drone and the 30 umbrellas are easy. I just need to work on the music, lyrics and choreography. Lol
A buncha geniuses I tell you, a buncha geniuses.
So coooooooooooooooooollll I love this song I could listen to this song forever .😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😃😍😍😍😍😍😉😉
ほとんど誰もコメントで触れないけど、このビデオの一番の功労者は規律正しく動く女子高生達だと思う。もっと評価されて然るべきかと。
それは私も思いました
what
@@c.q.cumber.5329
nobody says
But the most worker is disciplined girls in this video
there should be evaluated
So cool
GREAT !
Perfume 0,0 omg
I didn't know this band sold enough records to have such high production videos
this is a 3 year old comment but I figured I'd reply anyways lol, pretty sure they get most of their funding through sponsors! In this case it was Honda. they've also done one advertising for chevy using their car, and another morton salt.
The only group whose clips look interesting. Creativity is just awesome. Well surprised.
This is so cool! I would love to see the raw video with the slowed down footage. The song sounds so weird that slow.
Go on the video in google chrome, play at 0.5 speed, it's strange but accurate enough
wait. girls with umbrella at the end were also on UNICUB??
there were literally thousands of them. amazing
Not all of them, only the girls towards the beginning.
Oh... this PV's choreographer is Japanese famous choreographer 'AIR:MAN'!!
I wish the footage showed us the entirety of the video, but in real time.
ART
SO COOL！
Definitely genius!
"It rained"
Well good thing you had all those umbrellas!
You show up with hundreds of umbrella's and you're surprised you got rain?? LOL
Hey, the universe is listening and just trying to support you! hehee.
LOVE YOUR WORK!!!!
♥♥♥ awesome=D
So it's like the "hoverboard" everyone's using now but you getta sit
I have a broken leg, I spent 2 months waiting for surgery since I had a lot of inflammation, finally they I got my bones fixed with a plate and I have to wait two or three more months for them to heal, so I guess an uniclub would be better than my wheel chair lol
あぁ 字幕が欲しい!!
As long as it sounds good as a final product, it's good.
2:22 Bless you Damian. ;-)
Show!!!!!
There is close to 2,000 people
At the very end, did the camera go up and you guys did the whole thing with umbrellas? Thats so cool
Ty
this is just one step closer to Wall-E.
You didn't even mention Perfume. They're the biggest stars in Japan and you didn't think it was worth mentioning why they were there?
it probably rained cos yall were indoors with the umbrellas lol
being is japan must have been so amazing
Wait so was the final birds eye view shots sfx or actual umbrellas?
Actual umbrellas. They played in half-time over the speakers to make it easier for everyone to coordinate properly
It's all real umbrellas, folks. The entire video is exactly as it appears. They could afford all of those mobile-chairs and things cuz of their partnership with Honda. It's thanks to that that videos like this and Needing/Getting are possible.
Garrett Randall
I can see the central dozen but 3000+ scooters at (I'm guessing from segway pricing) 10 grand a pop...even to borrow, I don't think there are that many. When I see more camera angles I'll believe it.
frollard They have said the people at the end didn't have Uni-Cubs...
*****
It's fair what they say, but you can't see leg shadows when they are still relatively zoomed in -- they all just glide into place.
4 years later still waiting for the honda uni cub to be on amazon :c
i see you did this 127 times