Purple Planet on YouTube

This page is a rolling showcase of a few of our favourite uses of our music on YouTube.

Proof that YouTube is more than a ragbag of skateboarding disasters - this elegant time-lapse film of transport in Nagasaki, Japan has clocked up 50,000 hits in six months. Watch in hi-def for a truly dreamy experience. Interesting that so many comments complement the pristine Nagasaki's streets. (We have a tram system in Manchester, England that is fully operational for all of 50 days a year.)

The music is a looped version of 'Swaying Daisies'.

This superb piece of urban dance is neglected in terms of hits, but has become perhaps our favourite YouTube vid. Abbie Cooper's despairing parkland routine is made all the more eerie by the untroubled families going about their business in the background. Overall the whole piece is rather like an animated version of an Edward Hopper painting. It looks like it may have been filmed in Central Park, New York from the few glimpses of buildings in the background, but not sure.

The music is 'Silent Tears'.

Trailer for Luner Eugene's short-film about a blackmailer in recession-ravaged USA,

" Employed - A story of an Immigrant.."

High technical quality (used a Canon HV30, and edited in Final Cut Pro) with grtitty, authentic acting performances. Highly imaginative use of music - with a looped section from the Pad version of 'Night Drive'  used unobtrusively in the background, with a seamless segue into a short segment of 'Into Battle'

We are often struck by the extraordinary sincerity of individually produced films on youtube.

Here, Terry ponders the future after a life of caring duties. What is remarkable here is her ability to convey emotion in a way that is rarely seen in traditional TV and film. There must be something in the usual creative process that strangles the life out of pieces to camera in documentaries - because here, someone with presumably no training can talk directly to the viewer in a way that seems more direct and effective way than eomeone else with years of media experience.