The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar

The music video directed by Michel Gondry, uses digital effects and real footage to sync the visuals with the soundtrack. The video features a single shot where the camera is placed looking out of a moving train's window. It took 3 months to post-produce this film.

The video/visuals on-screen gradually and intelligently sync to the rhymn/beats of the music. This is sometimes represented naturally in the world via for example a large metal obscure building, or in other cases the simple but effective way of going from day into night, and back again. The visuals begin to repeat themselves (this is probably done via the use of either CGI or clever editing), to furthermore sync to the beats in the song.

The picture below, is an example of the beats syncing with the buildings/visuals on-screen. THe two white drums are to beats, and the tall white ball-pointed buildings are higher notes.

The music video is in some ways mesmerising as it feels natural yet hypnotising. I have never seen this type of work expressed in a music video before, but i consider it original and very effective. Looking further into this music video i discovered that the shots in which the train passes through Valence and Nimes was shot multiple times (around 10) during the day just to get different light gradients. This expresses the work and commitment gone into creating this original piece, and I feel it's a great example of clever editing.

http://vimeo.com/1255501