Stop motion. Old Technique in videos. But when Coldplay put out the video for Trouble, the formula for music videos was written for ... well until the next "cool" cheap way to make a video comes along. We've all seen the carbon copies that have been floating around. All edited together using flash and lots of paper dolls.
Stop motion used to be what flash motion is today. Nobody uses it anymore, mainly because its time consuming to set up each frame. The most memorable one is Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer, which consistently shows up in top"x" videos of all time on every station except BET, and I think it gets honorable mention for having black women singing in the final verse.
Anyway the point is this. Plan B, is nobody I've heard of. Further more he's no one I care about. He's a rapper who is white, and therefore is destined to be endlessly compared to eminem. Sorry but its true. And yes he does sound kinda like him. His styles not bad, but his word choice is forgettable. The production is solid, and the beat is enjoyable. Overall I'll give it a 7.
The video is stop motion. It's pretty good stop motion as well. Just watch it and think about how long it must take to arrange all those items moving around for every frame here. What is it, 8 per second? Then think of how you plan that out so your mouth is forming the correct sound for each word to correspond with the song and the video. Complicated? Definitely. Worth it? I think so.
Gold Star!
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