Holas!!!
Weno, toi superemossionao!!!
Como os comenté hace unos días me puse en contacto via email con la gente de MK12 para ver si les podía pasar una especie de entrevista virtual y me han contestado!!!
Aquí teneis el texto íntegro de la entrevista tal como me la devolvieron. La verdad es que se han portado muy bien y se han mostrado dispuestos a seguir contestando preguntas. Aquí va pues la entrevista.
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MA -
How people at MK12 feel about the final result of Agenda suicide?
MK12 - We’re pretty proud of the piece, all things considered. There was a huge learning curve we subjected ourselves to, on top of making the longest piece we’d ever made at the time. Beyond learning quite a lot about our creative process and how it works best, we learned a ton about basic production issues, and how to manage jobs of that scope.
If we have a regret, it’s that MTV chose not to air it over content issues.
MA -
What are your influences as artists, generally speaking and, then with this
particular work?
MK12 - Generally speaking, it’s a broad laundry list kind of spectrum of influences. There are nine people in our shop, each with a different background and a different artistic identity… the result is the kind of polyglot appearance of our work, hopefully more than just the sum of its parts.
This particular work was influenced by Russian constructivism and design, in both form and content.
MA -
How was the work with that video?
MK12 - It was a massive challenge. On top of having a client to please, it’s a fairly dense, complex narrative and approach that required 2-D and 3-D interaction, live and virtual camera work, inserting live-action into artificial environments, and most of all trying to take all these elements and make something that would make some sort of sense to someone viewing it.
MA -
How many hours did it require?
MK12 - I’m not sure. When we were commissioned to do the work, there wasn’t a hard deadline so we worked on it in fits and starts until there finally was a deadline, which meant we worked on it straight, and pretty much exclusively, for three or four weeks.
MA -
Wich techniques did you use?
MK12 - We built all environments and sets virtually, shot actors in front of a greenscreen (or at least in front of a piece of greenscreen fabric) with our DV camera, keyed out and mixed the two, then edited and refined it, adding layers of detail and complexity gradually as we went.
MA -
Did you had some special problems during the filming?
MK12 - Really the sheer scope of the project was the biggest problem. How do you link shot to shot, how to you stitch a narrative together when you’ve got four guys making those shots independently, stuff like that. Piecing the shots together and realizing there’s a shot missing, or that something didn’t make sense… stuff like that.
MA -
How was the experience working with The Faint?
MK12 - They were great, really kind and humble guys that admired our work and trusted us to bring their vision to the screen.
MA -
Did they came to you with some idea of what they wanted or you had complete freedom?
MK12 - They wanted a vaguely illustrative video that would reflect the themes of the song itself—oppressive work environments, corporate zombies, etc.—but were hands-off in terms of how we realized it.
MA -
Were they happy with the results?
MK12 - We hope so!
MA -
What other works at MK12 would you recommend to those who liked Agenda?
Suicide?
MK12 - Our second video, NO NOT NOW for a band called Hot Hot Heat was finished earlier in the summer of ‘03. We did a piece called UNTITLED 02: INFINITY that explores the same kind of limited-palette cinematography. Um… all of work, dammit! Go to the website and watch it all!
MA -
What are you currently working on or what are your future projects?
MK12 - We’re currently in the middle of a commercial for Best Buy, and have recently completed some spots for Adidas and Comedy Central… that’s enough for now…!
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Y hasta aquí esta entrevista virtual.
Recordad que podeis ver todos sus trabajos en su web
http://www.mk12.com (versión 4.5) pero que también está todavía disponible su versión más antigua (4.0) para quien quiera ver otro grafismo distinto (y muy wapo también).
Y que la revista RES también les ha dedicado un pequeño espacio para comentar el lanzamiento de su trabajo videomusical "No Not Now" de los Hot Hot Heat en esta dirección
http://www.res.com/magazine/articles/mk ... 08-07.html
Esta gente hay que mirársela con lupa porqué la verdad es que prometen mucho!!! 8O
Acabo de añadir en la web (http://videosmusicales.swiki.net), en la sección esta de Tesoros Ocultos, una reseña de un vídeo absolutamente brutal de los The Faint llamado Agenda Suicide y realizado por un estudio llamado MK12.
The Faint - Agenda Suicide.mov 
y ZoRpIeNtO dijo: "zorpientitos dorados del bosque" 
