Kasabian's Sergio Pizzorno had to sing in a "crazy" mix of slow and fast speeds to achieve the glitchy effect in the music video for Favourites, directed by designer Aitor Throup.
Throup, who is primarily known for his fashion design, used a unique mix of editing techniques he collectively calls "speed-warping" in his direction for the video for the first single from The SLP ? Pizzorno's solo project.
It sees Pizzorno dancing sometimes in slow motion, sometimes sped up and sometimes in reverse, all while appearing to sing lyrics in real time.
Throup has been experimenting with speed-ramping and time remapping techniques in video editing for some time, and when his long-time collaborator Pizzorno played him Favourites, he knew it was the right moment to attempt a more ambitious application. Aitor Throup wanted to create an effect that was difficult to understand
"I always wanted to develop a way to incorporate speed-ramping and time remapping into an actual performance," he told Dezeen.
"I think that showing the body moving in a supernatural way yet keeping in time to a 'real-time' song is a poetic way of challenging how the viewers perceive what they are seeing."
Throup's speed-warping process is labour-intensive. It starts with a common technique, where the song is altered to be a third faster and the performer learns to lip sync it at this speed. The idea is that, by performing it this way but filming at the faster rate of 33 fra...