David Wilson is a music video director and artist. He is represented for Commercials and Music Videos. David Wilson was born in Yorkshire, raised in Hertfordshire, and spent his teenage years in Somerset. He attended higher education in Brighton, spent 2007-2013 in London, England and is now an LA-based director and artist.
His most famous piece of work is his video for Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know. http://vimeo.com/69107547
"When everybody has been waiting for new Arctic Monkeys material for so long, it's only fitting that the visuals be something special. So naturally, the Arctic Monkeys brought in David Wilson, skilled animator and expert in mind-bending, borderline hallucinatory cartoon imagery to create a video for their eagerly anticipated single 'Do I Wanna Know?'. David's latest video doesn't merely accompany the track, it forms an inseparable and particularly mesmerising part of the music itself. Taking his skill for interpreting a track through surrealist and seamlessly flowing animations up a notch by, paradoxically, limiting his ingredients to simple lines and a handful of colours, he uses the track's baseline as the foundation for an infinite dimension where choreography, drag racing and illustrative sound waves happily coexist." - http://www.colonelblimp.com/a/2723
I really like this video as there is more than meets the eye. Each coloured line represents different instruments. For example yellow lines move in beat with the drums, white lines move with the vocals, and blue and red represent bass and guitar. All the lines move in time with the music and flow fluently. I also like the smooth transition from black and white, to the introduction of colour, then back to black and white. I think the balance between simple sound wave lines and actual illustrations is good because if the whole video was just the moving sound wave lines it may become repetitive or boring.
Another piece of his work is another music video, this time for Tame Impala's 'Mind Mischief'. http://vimeo.com/57946935
"Remember high school? Remember the never ending lessons, the all-consuming crushes, the deep fascination with the opposite sex? However long ago it was, it's a time everyone gets a little wistful about.
In his potent new film for Tame Impala's 'Mind Mischief', David Wilson revisits those curiosity-filled days of adolescence, viewing them through a nostalgic and psychedelic lens. It's a film in two parts that explores the magic and mystery of a teenage crush, revolving around the mildly explicit student/teacher fantasy of a wide-eyed schoolboy (played by the breakout star of cult film 'Son of Rambow', Bill Milner).
Illustrating the song's theme of 'mind mischief' and inspired by the deep, retro bassline, the film marries the band's opulent and dreamy sound with equally dreamy imagery. Tension is slowly built with misty, lingering scenes of a 70s-era classroom, before taking a cosmic trip through the boy's imagination and into his animated retrofuturistic fantasy. Using his unique talent for turning the familiar into the sublime, David has further developed his extraordinary blend of live action and animation to produce a video that captures the abstract notion of desire in magnificent – and only slightly NSFW – visuals." - http://www.colonelblimp.com/a/2309
I like this video because it changes from real life to animation during the video. Lots of bright colours are used which makes it exciting and keeps the audience interested. Once again the video links well with the music and the animations move in time. I think what makes this video successful is this link. The song is quite dreamy and so is the animation which makes them match so well.
For more of his work visit his Vimeo account, personal website, and biography on the production company ColonelBlimp's site.
http://vimeo.com/thisisdavidwilson
http://thisisdavidwilson.com/
http://www.colonelblimp.com/d/davidwilson
"When everybody has been waiting for new Arctic Monkeys material for so long, it's only fitting that the visuals be something special. So naturally, the Arctic Monkeys brought in David Wilson, skilled animator and expert in mind-bending, borderline hallucinatory cartoon imagery to create a video for their eagerly anticipated single 'Do I Wanna Know?'. David's latest video doesn't merely accompany the track, it forms an inseparable and particularly mesmerising part of the music itself. Taking his skill for interpreting a track through surrealist and seamlessly flowing animations up a notch by, paradoxically, limiting his ingredients to simple lines and a handful of colours, he uses the track's baseline as the foundation for an infinite dimension where choreography, drag racing and illustrative sound waves happily coexist." - http://www.colonelblimp.com/a/2723
I really like this video as there is more than meets the eye. Each coloured line represents different instruments. For example yellow lines move in beat with the drums, white lines move with the vocals, and blue and red represent bass and guitar. All the lines move in time with the music and flow fluently. I also like the smooth transition from black and white, to the introduction of colour, then back to black and white. I think the balance between simple sound wave lines and actual illustrations is good because if the whole video was just the moving sound wave lines it may become repetitive or boring.
Another piece of his work is another music video, this time for Tame Impala's 'Mind Mischief'. http://vimeo.com/57946935
"Remember high school? Remember the never ending lessons, the all-consuming crushes, the deep fascination with the opposite sex? However long ago it was, it's a time everyone gets a little wistful about.
In his potent new film for Tame Impala's 'Mind Mischief', David Wilson revisits those curiosity-filled days of adolescence, viewing them through a nostalgic and psychedelic lens. It's a film in two parts that explores the magic and mystery of a teenage crush, revolving around the mildly explicit student/teacher fantasy of a wide-eyed schoolboy (played by the breakout star of cult film 'Son of Rambow', Bill Milner).
Illustrating the song's theme of 'mind mischief' and inspired by the deep, retro bassline, the film marries the band's opulent and dreamy sound with equally dreamy imagery. Tension is slowly built with misty, lingering scenes of a 70s-era classroom, before taking a cosmic trip through the boy's imagination and into his animated retrofuturistic fantasy. Using his unique talent for turning the familiar into the sublime, David has further developed his extraordinary blend of live action and animation to produce a video that captures the abstract notion of desire in magnificent – and only slightly NSFW – visuals." - http://www.colonelblimp.com/a/2309
I like this video because it changes from real life to animation during the video. Lots of bright colours are used which makes it exciting and keeps the audience interested. Once again the video links well with the music and the animations move in time. I think what makes this video successful is this link. The song is quite dreamy and so is the animation which makes them match so well.
For more of his work visit his Vimeo account, personal website, and biography on the production company ColonelBlimp's site.
http://vimeo.com/thisisdavidwilson
http://thisisdavidwilson.com/
http://www.colonelblimp.com/d/davidwilson
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