This morning I was greeted in my inbox by an article from Mashable, which is the first music video made with a Kinect camera. The Echo Lake music video, created by UK filmmaker Dan Nixon, is the latest in the onslaught of innovative music videos that have been cropping up over the past few years. From the use of HTML5, to low-budget/high-creativity videos, to memes, there have been some very cool and new ways of looking at videos. While this isn’t a new thing (just look at Bob Dylan’s genius Subterranean Homesick Blues video), the integrated use of technology is really interesting.
With this one, Dan filmed the entire thing using a Kinect camera to map the depth data and then represent it using a point cloud, with some cool particle effects thrown on top. It’s reminiscent of Radiohead’s House of Cards video, but Nixon says using the Kinect camera made it ‘a whole order of magnitude cheaper’ to make than the Radiohead video. The idea was originally based on the work that Flight 404 did with Cinder and Kinect.
It’s great to see the arts start looking at technology in a new way, and although this isn’t what the Kinect was designed to do, the creativity and innovation that is shown in this video is definitely something to be applauded.
Check out the full video below…
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