Tuesday, 8 May 2012

John Williams Is The Man

Whilst Canadian, Corey Vidal (known as Apprentice A) on YouTube covers a vast array of different types of videos, his most successful and popular video to date is a lip synch of a song by a comedy a capella group called Moosebutter from Salt Lake City, Utah. As of late April the video currently stands at over 16 500 000 views.

To give you an idea of just how popular this video is, when the video was first uploaded, along with appearing on YouTube, it was featured on the homepage of ninemsn.com and was featured by MSN Videos and StupidVideos.com. As a result of this, on 7th December, 2008 the video was nominated for "Favourite User Generated Video" of 2008 at the 35th Annual People's Choice Awards on CBS facing competition in its category from viral videos, Barack Roll, Fred Goes Swimming, Where The Hell is Matt? (2008), and Wassup (2008). In a very short amount of time, the video has also a gathered a number of various accolades include Canada's #1 Top Rated (All Time) and #1 Top Favourited (All Time) Entertainment video as well as in YouTube's Top 100 Rated videos of All Time.

The video shows Corey Vidal miming the song entitled John Williams Is The Man. The screen is split into four screens with Vidal wearing a different shirt in each one. Each different part is then mimed.

Corey Vidal's most popular video, John Williams Is The Man shows Corey miming, in four different parts, the words to a song by a comedy a capella group called Moosebutter from Salt Lake City, Utah. Vidal shows himself, wearing four different shows to show the different parts and mimes each part.

The song itself is based around the music of the famous movie composer, John Williams. Vidal goes through an array of songs, miming lyrics that have been written to describe events occurring in the movies of the Star Wars franchise.

The songs, and their order ar as follows:

  1. Close Encounters of a Third Kind (1977)
  2. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark  (1981)
  3. Superman (1978)
  4. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  5. Jaws (1975)
  6. Jurassic Park (1993)
  7. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark  (1981)

Corey Vidal also has a number of other videos where mimes to other songs in a similar manner such as this video:
'Friends' by Flight Of The Conchords

For now though, in its entirety, John Williams Is The Man.

John Williams Is The Man by Moosebutter