BOOKA SHADE - TEENAGE SPACEMAN (RADIO EDIT)

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  • Matt Harris thanks guys!
    1 year ago - comment
  • JuanitoDZ great work! congrats!
    1 year ago - comment
  • Dimitris JimmyBoy Argyriou congratulations, great video!
    1 year ago - comment
  • Matt Harris A huge thank you to Genero for putting on the gig, and also Booka Shade for volunteering this amazingly intricate tune!

    Was heaps of fun, lots of time went into it and to come away with the result within a really short timeframe (1 and 1/2 weeks in post for all but two shots) was epic.

    There was lots of great competition and some of the videos with real polish didn't make it into the finals. Respect to every entry, its a lot easier to comment than actually create something. I think everyone does in fact walk away with a music video.

    Thanks again

    Matt
    1 year ago - comment
  • biggerpicture It's an excellent video, VFX amazing and top 5 for me, although it wouldn't have been my first choice suited to this particular track. Congratulations, Matthew.
    1 year ago - comment
  • Genero Congratulations Matt on being chosen as the winner! Here is some feedback from Booka Shade giving a bit more background to their choice:

    We were very touched to see such an amazing response to the video competition. It was the first time we did a competition like this and we were really surprised at how professional and convincing most of the videos we saw were. Watching them was very fun and also moving at times. In the end, it was a battle between Quirky and Cool:

    On one side, we kept coming back to the video from Alex et Ol. We liked the idea of different people with a common interest walking forward in their daily lives while the rest of the world walks backwards. We've had exactly the same feeling when leaving a club after a beautiful party night. The video had the best look of all the videos and the casting is amazing. The flow and style is without a doubt perfect.

    On the other side, there was the video from Matthew Harris, where a loner finds contact to the world again with a self made space suite. The narrative is held together with amazing special effects from Fergus Jack-Hinton and Fred Marshall and a fantastic performance by Scott Orr. The video is freaky, funny, a little trashy (in a a positive,dee lite circa early 90s, way). We've never had a video with a sense of humour before and our initial reservations were slowly quashed as something kept making us return to watch it over and over.

    In the end, we could only pick one and after much back and forth between ourselves, our family and friends, we picked the entry from New Zealand. Congratulations Mathew. Make sure you celebrate properly with Scott, Fergus and Fred.

    We also want to single out Protonsanon and Rivetting. How do you all make such incredible videos with no budget?! Amazing! The characters you created will be etched in our heads for a very long time.

    Also, we want to say hi to the town of Troyes. It is a very surreal experience to see so many great dancers move to your music. Maybe one day we can come and play there and see you all dance in person.

    Thanks everyone.
    Best,
    Walter and Arno
    1 year ago - comment
    • Alex and Ol Congratulations Matthew!!! Thanx to Genero Tv to make this competition possible! And we hope, one day, to have the occasion to work with Booka Shade on a next music video clip...
      1 year ago
    • Matt Harris Hey cheers, glad you got it!

      Respect to everyone who entered! It was cool to have something to work on and have some fun. That tune gets better the more you hear it i reckon.

      Matt
      1 year ago
  • mungous congratulations mate!!!
    1 year ago - comment
    • Matt Harris Hey man, awesome work on your vid. I am so impressed with your skills. Thanks for being a cool guy to be in a competition with!
      1 year ago
  • ButterPuppy Loved it.
    1 year ago - comment
  • mungous man I like the visuals very 'kiwi' too haha
    be cool if someone from NZ takes it out!
    1 year ago - comment
    • Matt Harris haha, yea man. good luck!
      1 year ago
    • mungous awesome man we're both in! good luck to you too
      1 year ago
    • Matt Harris cheers bro.. and you too!
      1 year ago
  • Majo_Rosa Congratulations, this vid is great! I like the VFX.
    1 year ago - comment
  • Shobita haha... I mean the video is AMAZING!!... but so is your comment annatron :D
    1 year ago - comment
  • annatron heck yeah! This is meeeean as!!!! Nice one Matt!!!!
    1 year ago - comment
    • Shobita THIS IS AWESOME!!!!
      1 year ago
Artist: Booka Shade
Song: Teenage Spaceman ...
15 Jul 2010 5196 0 19

Description:

A young man, with a life not going to plan, stumbles upon a message from deep space.

The message therein instructs the lad.

With the power gifted, he rips open time and space with the power of funk, and then paves the way for everyone to a better and brighter future.

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Credits:

Director: Matt Harris

Young man: Scott Orr

CG:Fergus Jack-Hinton, Fredd Marshall
3D: Steve Hutt

Camera: Michael Sunderland

Special thanks: Sarah Parker

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New Zealand By: Matt Harris
15 Jul 2010

Country: New Zealand

URL: Matt Harris hasn't added a URL yet

Bio:

I live in Wellington in New Zealand and I work as a visual effects artist. Its pretty cool.

Dj'ing, sound design, snowboarding and capoeira all are good fun and I take the time to get out there. I love putting the effort into the video production as well, always have to have a project on the go.

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