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August
2004 - Sean Burke is launching his third album entitled
" 2 Pretty 4 Hiphop "in October 2004. The
album has hiphop influence.
20 July 2001-
Sean Burke makes his television debut on Castle Loud (Thursdays 21h00,
SABC 1)
20 July 2001- The music video for " I Really
Don't Mind is banned from Channel O for being "too explicit". ( Yeah right!)
25 July 2001- Interview with Olivia Parker
of The Star Tonight and photographer Motlhalefi Mahlabe.
31 July 2001- Sean appears on the front page
of The Star tonight with an exclusive interview with Olivia Parker and
a CD review.
16 September
2001 -
Completion of "Cruizin' In Gauteng", the second music video off
the album entitled "Delicious".
10 November 2001 - Completion of the South Africa's
first remixed video."Cruizin in Gauteng" was re-shot and re-edited
to complement the remixed Kwaito version of the original album track.
4 April 2002 - Completion of "Damn",
the fourth music video off the album entitled "Delicious". It tells
the story of a music terrorist!
September 2002 - Amorfous Music (www.amorfousmusic.com),
an independent label in South Africa, embarked on the very daunting task of
creating a groundbreaking song and video that would be suitable for MTV. In
a unique partnership with an American based 3D animation company, Metl
Grafix (www.metlgrafix.com), the skills and expertise of 3D animators
from three different continents were harnessed to create an exceptional Hollywood
blockbuster-type 3D animated music video.
Two African, five Ukrainian and five American animators took one year to complete
the project. With exceptional attention to detail, every single 3D element
was created from scratch. Normally a song determines the video treatment,
but in this unique instance the video treatment gave rise to the creation
of a specific song to match the video.
The hiphop/R&B artist, Sean Burke, created the song entitled 'Last Dayz',
in which he delivers social commentary on our global culture of manufactured
pop celebrity. The song composition process placed particular emphasis on
using the pop hit formula that is at home on the MTV channel.
THE VIDEO TREATMENT
The video is a fusion between films like The Matrix and Men In Black. The
video is set in a futuristic Johannesburg, which forms part of the African
Union in the year 2020, a time when aliens are already secretly living among
us. The head of the media monopoly is an alien who continuously creates new
pop stars in order to hypnotize the earth's population while his mother ship
awaits orders to invade. The clandestine Extra-terrestrial Task Force hampers
the media mogul's work. This Force is responsible for the elimination of these
fabricated pop stars. Special agents, Sean Burke and Mark Watson have eliminated
countless artificially engineered pop groups, having enjoyed their fifteen
minutes of fame. These made-up pop stars consequently disappear from the scene
of popular culture.
The ignorant public simply assumes that these ruined pop stars are not popular
anymore and that they have faded into anonymity. Every single element of the
video was originally created for this storyboard and composed entirely in
the 3D animated environment. The visuals include extravagant 3D animated crowd
scenes, futuristic cars featured in high-speed chase scenes, realistic 3D
models of Sean Burke and Mark Watson, some unique alien life forms, and a
futuristic Johannesburg skyline which even includes the proposed Gautrain
high speed rail, the Hillbrow Tower and the Ponte Building. This video is
an amazing accomplishment in our time, and this will be the yardstick for
all future African music videos. This unique and exceptional video is testimony
to what can be achieved by an African artist like Sean Burke, who has succeeded
in creating a world class music video that all Africans can be proud of.
29 March 2004 - Sean Burke has completed his
10th music video from his debute album
entitled " Oh My My"
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