Five minutes, one huge tracking shot, a cast of God knows how many. Impressive. And from the looks of it, these kids went to that mythical college you see on TV and in movies where everyone is friends and everybody’s super excited and happy all the time, and you’re never more than a twist-off or a Slim Jim away from the whole town turning into one giant slip-and-slide gangbang party. I was hoping to go to that college, but instead I ended up at the one where you get drunk in your dorm room and play that Tony Hawk game on Playstation. But I guess it was all worth it now that I’m a wealthy Korean businessman.
Anyway, I don’t know whether to be super impressed that this many people were involved in this, and they shot the whole thing in one shot, or super pissed that they got this many people to help out, and shot it all in one shot… and it was all for an effing Black Eyed Peas song. From what I’ve gathered in my intense three minutes of research, these kids are students at “UQAM”. Which stands for… *Googles* Université du Québec à Montréal. Aw, son of a bitch, really?! Damned showboatin’ French Canadians. They probably get their VD treatments paid for by the government too. That’s it, I’m suing my parents.
[via TBT - thanks to Nik for the tip]
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Black Eyed Pees is what the ex-wife used to do after she drank my fuckin beer.
We used to break into song at my college too…no wait, rashes, we broke out in rashes.
My bad.
Canada has officially overrun their hipster clothing budget from this one video alone.
P.S. This is just like my college in that I wanted to punch everyone in that video right in the face for being in my way when I’m trying to walk to class.
I wiff J-rock on this one.
Why won’t any of you assholes give me directions to Intro to Macroeconomics?!?!?!?
God, I can’t believe you posted this crap.
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*poot poot*
BONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy shit, that guy’s dressed as Waldo! How unique and timely, you hipster fucknut!
If time is money then these assholes owe their parents a few years hard labor.
If you ask me… Maxime Lamontagne really didn’t do as well as a job in the “Assistance a la Camera” as he could have. French people are so lazy that only half their job titles are in French.
Somebody should tell the dipshit in the beginning that it’s American Apparel, not American Eagle.
So this is the college the Degrassi High kids go when they graduate?
Famous alumnus include the Fame guy and the Twilight guy.
Fun fact: The weirdo hipster that runs American Apparel is actually from Montreal
*Paints office wall with contents of skull for knowing that*
Yes, they look like hipster a-holes, but to shoot that entire video in one shot? You have to admit it’s impressive. There must’ve been 300 people in that. I couldn’t even get 30 people to cooperate on something. …Heck, I couldn’t even get 3 people to cooperate on something. Heck, I… oh god I’m so lonely.
I considered harassing you for knowing that, but, isn’t that the ultimate hipster irony? The guy who runs American Apparel is CANADIAN?????
(That was such an unnecessary reinforcement that I just got an offer to write scripts for Fox after typing that.)
yeah Jirish, I’m pretty sure that’s the only reason those fuckers shop there… that and getting to look like they shop at Goodwill without having to smell like it
I’d rather have my daughter in a Rob Thomas video…
If you want to be impressed by a bunch of college kids coming together and cooperating on something, be impressed with the 10,000+ people at the University of Colorado, Boulder every April 20th. Sure, they don’t have to do choreography or anything but, for a lot of them, not wandering off and getting eaten by bears is a pretty impressive feat.
I would happily bang any of the broads in that. Even the big ‘uns.
Impressive? I’ll give you a rundown of how this video came together:
7 a.m. – “Artsy” chick shows up to class dressed like Wonder Woman. “Poetic” friend shows up dressed like a cop. Teacher announces he wants a fabulous class project completed by the end of the day.
7:15 a.m. – “Soulful” black chick shows up singing Black Eyed Peas song. Teacher says, “Eureka! We’ll do a one shot video.”
7:16 a.m. – “Unique” fat chick says she can do a cart wheel.
7:20 a.m. – “Hilarious” Waldo guy elicits laughter when he yells, “Here I am!”
8:00 a.m. – First take. Black chick complains she wanted to sing the whole way.
3:00 p.m. – Wrap final take. Dudes make out.
If you want to be impressed by a group of college kids coming together, stop by a Pike house around 3 a.m.
From a film point of view it’s an impressive shot.
Still, I want to murder 90% of the people in that video. But that probably holds true for pretty much every video you have posted on here aside from Riverdog.
I guess it could be worse. Could’ve been Nickelback.
keyHo: You wound me, sir. By which I mean I laughed so hard my sides hurt. Well fuckin’ played.
In the absence of truer Canadadians, I guess I’ll say it :
Needs more Marc Lepine…
Let someone else wake up and make use of the “shooting” metaphor.
This video is basically the FPS scene from Doom, directed by a hipster fuckwad.
Fuck…that made me want to kill myself
Yikes. Give them back their hockey already.
Epic production. Bravo.
I can organize that many people…if by people you mean stamp collection.
I’m not sure if I pity or admire the girl at the 1:44 mark who is apparently the only person in all of French Canadia to not be invited to this public wank-fest.
Urge to kill, rising……….
Update: My walk to class today was less filled with choreographed singing and hipster clothing and more filled with girls who pretended to look at their phones when I smiled at them. FML.
Why is this even here? And how is this “impressive?” Sure it’s a single shot, but it’s not like the kids are doing flips and shit, they’re just lip syncing to a shitty song and walking around. There’s no theme or “cool factor” other than having 200 kids at one time. This video sucks.
“From a film point of view it’s an impressive shot.”
Jirish – What exactly are you impressed by? It’s a guy walking through buildings with a camera. ANYONE could do that, regardless of technical skill.
That’s a fatter cartwheel than I had ever hoped to see.
No cut shots that actually accomplish anything of value are rare. Just because this was for a crappy black eyed peas song and featured most of what I hate about society doesn’t detract from the fact that it would have been a difficult thing to pull off.
There are plenty of examples where a no-cut shot makes you want to drown a kitten. So if this one is able to portray the feeling of walking through a campus while a bunch of stuff happens, yes it’s impressive in that regard.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a date with some cheetos that I don’t want to be late for.
In support of Jirish : see YouTube. Ten seconds of coherency for every 25 million hours of upload.
I was actually walking to class when they shot this and at some point they had to call security because a bunch of dudes where trying to run in front of the camera with their pants down, waving their penises wildly. That’s what this video would have needed. More cocks.
I haven’t seen this much well-organized stupidity since Nuremberg.
I live in Montreal. Those schmucks have nothing on the hipster assholeness that the rest of the city is infested with.
Shutdown, you just blew my mind. Is that even possible? *mutters under his breath about g-d quebecois*