Lauren Simpson and Mike Losure, Texas A&M visualization graduate students, will talk about their experience with making a music video for the band, Motion City Soundtrack, at a Brown Bag Lecture slated 12:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 29. in Langford C400 ( Studio A).
Simpson earned the opportunity to make the video by winning the mtvU "Best Film on Campus" competition. She tapped fellow Vizzers Losure and Igor Kraguljac to assist her in the project, which included live-action video and stop-motion animation.
At the Feb. 29 Brown Bag Lecture, Simpson and Losure will discuss creating the video from initial pitch all the way through to the final review process with the band, record label, and MTV. The talk will include dealing with a semi-professional budget and production schedule, the technical and artistic process behind stop-motion animation, and the interesting dynamic of juggling a band, a director, and whole lot of “producer-manager-business people.”
To learn more about Simpson's winning entry in the mtvU video competition, read the story in the College of Architecture's archone. newsletter:
http://archone.tamu.edu/college/news/
newsletters/spring2008/stories/mtv.html
To view the "It Had to be You" Motion City Soundtrack video, visit:
http://www.mtvu.com/video/?id=1581138&vid=208411
A "making of" video is also online at:
http://www.mtvu.com/music/breaking_the_video/
A high quality version of the video will be screened this May at Viz-a-GoGo 15.
For more information, contact Michael Losure at losurem@gmail.com.
