Rubber Johnny

Rubber Johnny is a 6-minute short film that is also classified as a music video. Chris Cunningham directed it in 2005 and like Scummy Man made it to an individual DVD. When audience members bought the DVD they also got illustrations and photographs. This shows that short films were giving more than just a film to its audience.

The film is extremely experimental and fast paced this helps concrete the genre of music video. The film is experimental with its low-key lighting, infrared night vision colouring and its deformed main character who is known as “Rubber Johnny”

Rubber Johnny follows the music video codes and conventions as it cuts to the beat of the drub and bass/trance track. The film/music video itself is controversial and raises questions for an active audience, we are shocked with what we are seeing visually however we continue to try make sense of it by asking ourselves questions.

Post-production is a huge factor within this film and has brought it all together, I personally like the way how the editors/visual effects have experimented with motion blur and the speed off the visuals being played.

Referencing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3far9oHZOsI&feature=PlayList&p=A25C25CC56439DB0&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=31