PODCAST: Foo Fighters "DOA"

Foo Fighters "DOA" RCA
Michael Palmieri, director/editor
Rachel Curl, producer
A Band Apart, production co
Matt Uhry, DP
Description: This video for "DOA" may make you nauseous. Foo Fighters perform while strapped onto the floor of a room that was designed to slowly rotate a full 360 degrees. Director Michael Palmieri has fun with the camera's perspective, often letting the band seem right side up while their shoelaces and necklaces dangle in an askew fashion, thereby revealing that they are actually sideways or upside down. Cut into this topsy-turvey set is an even weirder segment on a train. Not only is the train also spinning around in circles, but the band members act out a bizarre scene in which muffins are offered and then refused. These are just some of the random and silly touches that make "DOA" constantly surprising and entertaining. Because technology does not (yet) allow for Video Static to offer you muffins, we instead present a Podcast (listen to MP3 or subscribe via itunes) of  Michael Palmieri discussing how they made this video. Palmieri describes how the band members were strapped into the "barf ball" and why the Coriolis Force required them to shoot the room rotating both clockwise and counter-clockwise.