...Directed by Canadian filmmaker, Lee Skinner, it starts with a lone bearded figure sitting in silence in a bar, then seems to travel into his VHS-styled fantasy of "directing" of a Junior Boys video. It's all fittingly outfitted with kitschy green screen effects and low budget charm.
In a previous THUMP interview, the band said that the song is about a "local eccentric" who frequents The Brain, a bar in Hamilton, Ontario co-owned by band member Jeremy Greenspan. It doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to suggest that the video's star might just be that man himself, perhaps pictured in that very bar—a well-earned cameo, if so...
The video does indeed feature the man that inspired the song: Hamilton musician, painter, and writer Martin Verrall. It was one of the many ideas that Jeremy Greenspan had when he came to me about doing a video for "Over It." Other elements he wanted to incorporate references to Hilarious House of Frightenstein (especially the Wolf Man), and inspiration from Beat Club, SCTV, and an old music video for German artist Andreas Dorau. It was my job synthesize these ideas into a cohesive video. Hope you enjoy it. - Lee Skinner, director
Here's one that could give Vertical Hold flashbacks to anyone who came of age in the Analog Generation. Of course, there's no compensation knob on computers, but this trippy video for Drew Lustman takes advantage of the "rolling shutter" distortion seen in most DSLR video cameras.
Lee Skinner, director: "Rolling shutter describes how modern CMOS sensor chips scan each frame progressively, from top to bottom. It's the same technology that causes wobbly Jell-O like artifacting of your shaky cell phone videos. For this music video, a motorized rig was built to spin a camera on its x-axis, so that it tumbles backward. Using a voltage dimmer, the motor is brought up to just the right speed so that each frame is scanned in the time that it takes to do a full revolution around." [via The Creators Project]
This music video exploits a glitch inherent in most modern digital video cameras, that being the distortion caused by rolling shutter. Rolling shutter describes how modern CMOS sensor chips scan each frame progressively. which is responsible for the Jell-O like appearance of your shaky cell phone videos. For this music video, a motorized rig was built to spin a camera on its x-axis, so that it tumbles backward. Using a voltage dimmer, the motor is brought up to just the right speed so that each frame is scanned in the time that it takes to do a full revolution around.
