They decided to shoot the video indoors, essentially in a black phone booth. So at last minute they did something that has become the trademark for the young indie film house. "We originally had a different plan for the video, but at the last minute our location fell through," Bates said. "Let's just do some crazy makeup and have you guys look like fricken' aliens, basically, and have you guys do some Daft Punk-esque craziness on that," he suggested. So he pitched the idea of a multi-frame video, but they were a little hesitant at first to do something so strongly associated with other a cappella groups.
"We've had hundreds and hundred of hours of that basic studio/built-up look with Peter," Bates said, and he wanted to do something totally different but within that genre for Pentatonix' Daft Punk.
#WHAT DAFT PUNK SONGS ARE IN PENTATONIX MEDLEY SERIES#
They had developed a synched, multi-window style over a series of more than 40 videos shot for him. Fun fact: their first RTX video was done ad hoc on one day's notice on a mutual day off.įifGen had put in some serious shooting and post production time over the last couple of years working with (one-man) a cappella group Peter Hollens. And you definitely should take a moment to watch their (autoplay, heads-up) show reel at .įifGen's has shot five videos for Pentatonix, one of which is as-yet unreleased. They roll with a 5D's (a 'II and a 'III) and a GoPro Hero3. They have recently increased the head count by 50% with the addition of McKenzie Yoeman. They were founded by Jimmy Bates and Reilly Zamber, both of whom are just 24. They won the 2011 season of NBC's Sing-Off 1 and were quickly off to the races.įifGen Films is a young, bootstrapping boutique film company out of Oregon. They added the positively acrobatic vocal bass of Avi Kaplan and beat boxer Kevin Olusola (who's really a cellist, albeit a beat-boxing cellist) and the band was complete. The original core of the young group was Scott Hoying, Kirstie Maldonado and Mitch Grassi, who were long-time friends in High School (class of 20). Already fast-rising, they pretty much went nuclear on Tuesday with the release of their second album and this Daft Punk medley video: Pentatonix is an a cappella group out of Arlington, Texas. This video is one percent budget and 99 percent pure talent and creativity - the latter of which will trump budget and scale every time. If you are one of the five people on the internet who have not yet seen the new video of Pentatonix covering Daft Punk this week, you're in for a treat.Īnd as cool as it is, dig a little deeper and it gets way better.
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