Review of Ratatat and Obsess by Carl Burgess

Lets get started with Ratatat. It is basically a music video that took inspiration from the many archive footage of actors smiling that are used in adverts. The video itself consists of multiple different actors posing and smiling either on their own or with others, at some points in the video the characters faces are actually modified to make the eyes and other facial features look smaller on the face by squishing them down on the face. Its a very well edited piece simply to say as the way it swaps to the next scene in time to the song is executed perfectly.

Two thing that helps the video to be just a little creepy is just the incessant smiling, its just so creepy which is really I think what he is going for in the video because that's his style as mentioned in the earlier post, and the smoke effect on the fringes of the video that creates a really dark thought in your mind. The smoke is almost invisible unless you spot it but it really just adds to the overall effect of a darker image behind that hides behind those incessant smiles.

While the music is not composed by Carl himself I want to make mention to how the music effects the  video on a deeper level then just the cutting between shots. The way the music effects the video is very odd because the music is way too rapid and is not really suited to the type of video because of its relatively . Yet with its use it works really well because of the synchronization to the video. To me I think the music effects it by again making the video look out of place. Everything about the video screams "help" and "I'm not meant to be here".

The way its was done is a great example of how weird and wacky Carl Burgess likes to make his work. None the less the video is a great example and as an overall rating from me it gets a 8/10 because of how his style is to weird you out and it hits the mark perfectly. As for the music it does strangely fit to the video and it just seems right.