New Order - Blue Monday. Computer used?
"Inspired" by MattyGubblykins' comment, I was reminded of the song Blue Monday by New Order.
There is a game and graphics in the music video which would have been top notch computer graphics for the time. I first thought it was PC graphics but I think the song came out in the early 80s when most PCs were still monochrome. I can't even remember what game it is or if the other graphics came with the game.
Any light sheddable on this?
There is a game and graphics in the music video which would have been top notch computer graphics for the time. I first thought it was PC graphics but I think the song came out in the early 80s when most PCs were still monochrome. I can't even remember what game it is or if the other graphics came with the game.
Any light sheddable on this?
What now?
Comments
http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/new-order-how-we-wrote-blue-monday-762505
is the original..
the guy who owned factory (tony wilson) also had good links with granada tv = chuck a few quid to the lads in the VT department to knock up a video.. wouldn't suprise me if that was the case.
a lot of the time it was who you knew, to get access to stuff the man on the street wouldn't. Remember Joffa posting about how they (special fx) helped the makers of red dwarf.
like a friend who had access to 3 studio's in the late 90's when folk weren't about (downtime) . they didn't mind him using it or me going along, as least someone was in their bit of the building. it's just annoying a certain tune is used loads on the boots advert now ;-) , but it paid for their high end studio.
the majority of stuff , you can get away without the big big budget.. like my customers in 2000 , instead of hiring an Avid rig to do video stuff, buy final cut pro and a mac, long term worked out cheaper.
the video probably used a quantel art computer if he was using granada to make the video (my dad used to lug around quantel's at work many moons ago, thinking they were just flight cases hehe) ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantel_Paintbox
the wireframe stuff was maybe a BBC micro, reason being is that has a decent connector out that is more suited to recording to video.