Daft Punk E.g. 6: Discovery (Album)

Album: Discovery
Artist: Daft Punk
Genre: Electronic
Director: Kazuhisa Takenouchi
Year Released: 2001

Points of influence:

• While we wont be making an animated music video there are points we can take from these. In One More Time, for example, there are scenes of people dancing and 'live performance footage'. The shot types, editing and 'lighting' used from these will have a big influence on our party scene.

example videos:

The music videos from the 2001 Daft Punk album Discovery together make up a feature length film, Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. It was directed by Kazuhisa Takenouchi who specialises in anime. The film tells the story of the Discovery album and features each song.

The album Discovery is recognised as a concept album which makes it suitable for use in a film.

From Wikipedia:

Early versions of the album included a "Daft Club" membership card. The card included a code which granted access to an online music service, which featured tracks later released on the album of the same name and Alive 1997.

The Daft Club was used to promote the film and through it were released previously unreleased remixes of tracks from the Discovery album.

All of the music videos have a clear narrative when watched together in order and are set in an alien planet.

The first four episodes from the film were shown on MTV and Cartoon Network in 2001. Cartoon Network showed the episodes online as part of their Toonami Reactor project.