Narrative: Inspirational video

"We are Very Busy People" by The Limousines

This video is very clever in every way. The visual graphics of a music video from the views of Photoshop user appeals to me as designers; Obviously its not accurate to how the software works, but I think the methods they use work just fine for the music video. For the narrative, you would actually have to listen to the song to understand what it means. The title "We are Very Busy People" is meant to satire the idea of what people really do with their time. Lyrics like "We'll end up numb from playing video games," "Long list of chores and shit to do before we play, oh let's just piss away the day," or "We'll stay up late making mix tapes, photoshopping pictures of ourselves" are only a few of the unproductive activities the song talks about and although they are things that keep one "busy," they definitely aren't a good use of ones time. This "screenshot" view that follows someone's (possibly a fan's) activity on their computer is cleverly relevant to the song. You see this person doing all these useless tasks like Facebook, making graphic for fun, even some useless stop motion animations. Towards the end, it get even worse with the flip book style animation using multiple window or scrolling pages which is obviously a waste of time. The funny thing is we are all guilty of doing things like this. I wasted time this weekend with things like photoshopping stupid stuff just because I can, instead of doing more productive things with my time. In my opinion, the animator of the video expresses the message of this song in the best way possible.