Adam Smith Discord Q&A

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Got a question for Adam Smith? 👀

Join in on Discord tomorrow, August 16th at 8pm BST for a Watch Party of the newly remastered 4K version of Galvanize and a live Q&A with Adam!

Drop your questions in Discord or below this post - Adam will answer selected questions live during the Q&A!
Hope to see you there!! 

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Exciting news, thanks!

Wonder how the remastering was done. First question: Did you record it on film stock?

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My question: Why did the Go visuals have changed so quickly? The ones with rollers still seem to suit, and in my opinion convey atmosprehe of the track better.

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I missed this but I had a look at Discord after the event.
It seems there were some audio/video problems. Then the vid got played. Presumably Adam answered some questions. Then people said Byeee.

But we can't replay this video on Discord?
So looking through the comments afterwards doesn't reveal very much...

[Csar]

The poor lads had some hiccups getting Adam connected due to Discord acting up, so the show started about 40 min later.
Someone recorded it so it probably can be rewatched in the next days.

Some takeaways

- Galvanize was indeed shot on 16 mm film (so it might be a real 4k upgrade rather than an upscale like with other videos, my interpretation)
- The topic of clowns came up and Adam mentioned they reached peak-clown in 2011 with Superflash (he didn't call it out but described the looks of the cherubs)
- Ring the Alarm's pink color scheme was an accident
- Question about what Chems tracks Adam would like to direct videos for if he could choose: Elektrobank, SLAS and I think Surface to Air it was
- Then he talked about his creative approach and that one time Tom wasn't quite happy about an idea he had (unfortunately can't remember what it was)
- One brief mention about budget constraints for shooting videos these days or that it has become tougher than back in the day, if I remember correctly (man Discord is quite a distracting media with all the instant reactions and stuff )

Oh, and Adam briefly stroke up Frozen's "Let it Go" during a freeze frame issue.
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Unfortunately, but understandably, questions weren't asked live so that's why you don't get much out of the comment section if you missed it. It was also rather brief so there wasn't that many questions in total.

But in any event, it was really nice of Adam to stop by and PikuPlayground to host it and navigating the Discord tech-jungle !