History
Lemon Jelly is a British electronic music duo from London. Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen grew up together amongst the same group of friends, but at this stage they did not know each other as well. Their friendship grew and they became good friends, but soon after this they both went their seperate ways. Franglen gave up his job to become a studio programmer, and Deakin moved to Edinburgh for 10 years to become a DJ and he also co founded a graphics atrs company called "Airside". As their jobs were linked by the same industry, they would often bump into each other at concerts. Their friendship began to form again because of this. The duo then started recording music together. This is when they chose the name "Lemon Jelly", they got the idea for the name when Franglen walked into Deakin's kitchen and said "It smells like lemon jelly in here". The name stuck and they continued to record under this name. Between the years of 1998 and 2000 "Lemon Jelly" released three albums (The Bath, The yellow and The midnight) on their own record label: "Impotent Fury". They were all a key success, which later led to them being signed to XL Recordings. Through this label the duo released an album that contained a collaboration of the songs from their albums. The album "Lemonjelly.ky." was widely released later in 2000. ('64-'95) -'79 aka "The Shouty Track"
I enjoyed watching lemon jelly's " the shouty track". The intro to the video in my opinion is very strong. The way the characters are drawn onto the page before they start moving is very pleasing and interesting to watch. The intro also shows an interesting transition between each shot, black pen is scribbled over the page until the shot fades to black. I think this is a really clever transition and keeps in the boundaries of the pen and paper theme. The video then moves onto the head banging scene, this is when you first see the characters fully animated. The frames per second has been reduced to give the character's movements sudden. One of the nice subtle touches in this video, is the way the paper background moves slightly between frames. But do not be fooled, the video has been digitally animated rather than animated like a "flick book", the evidence for this lies
One of the main interesting things about this video is that the visuals hold no relation to the words that are being sung. This renders the video almost pointless, but maybe Deakin and Franglen wanted to put forward the idea that music does not need a point, it's just nice to listen too.
As the video continues, scenes of graphic violence and random events occur, such as a character being shot out of a cannon, point blank into a wall. The pen scribble is used more and more as the video progresses but in different ways. It is used to resemble a crowed "moshing" whilst various items are being thrown across the room, and it is also used to depict grass. The video ends with the pen scribble chasing the two main characters off the page. In a way this makes the pen their God, the pen created them so it has the power to destroy them.
One of the main interesting things about this video is that the visuals hold no relation to the words that are being sung. This renders the video almost pointless, but maybe Deakin and Franglen wanted to put forward the idea that music does not need a point, it's just nice to listen too. 
As the video continues, scenes of graphic violence and random events occur, such as a character being shot out of a cannon, point blank into a wall. The pen scribble is used more and more as the video progresses but in different ways. It is used to resemble a crowed "moshing" whilst various items are being thrown across the room, and it is also used to depict grass. The video ends with the pen scribble chasing the two main characters off the page. In a way this makes the pen their God, the pen created them so it has the power to destroy them. 
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