I love music videos like this.
I can think of four offhand, alone:
REM’s Imitation of Life
The Spice Girls’ Wannabe
Tom Petty’s You Don’t Know How It Feels
The Replacements Bastards of Young
All the videos are SFW (unless you’re not supposed to be listening to music at work) and are quite fun to watch.
Anyone else know of other videos that appear to be shot all in one take?
I just thought of another too…this one has not one, but TWO windows that “appear” to be shot in one take (although you can tell it’s edited in a few parts–the effect is still pretty damn cool).
Jack Johnson - Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
U2 The Sweetest Thing. (It is actually two shots/takes…at one point the camera pans up to the sky and that’s when the other one takes over.)
(And now I’m waiting for the first person to come in and complain that no one warned him all these links go directly to videos. :p)
Michael Penn - Try (directed by Paul Thomas Anderson)
The queen of them all, Spike Jones’ video for Cibo Matto’s “Sugar Water” - and it’s a visual palindrome, too.
Paul Kelly’s God Told Me To - this one doesn’t just “appear” to be shot in one take, it’s pretty blatant about it since it’s starts on his eye and slowly pulls back until you can see his whole body by the end of the clip. Still manages to tell an interesting story, and is really quite intense. Great song too. (For those that don’t know him, Paul Kelly is a bit of an Australian legend. This won Best Music Video at the Inside Film Awards in 2007.)
Not to mention:
Feist - My Moon, My Man and
Feist - I Feel It All
from the same album. All of them great videos.
Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don’t Give Up
The directors, Godley and Creme, had pushed the envelope of video editing with their previous video, Waung Chung’s “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” where they edited every single frame. So they decided on this one to have no edits at all.
I Wanna Be Sedated by The Ramones
Numb by U2
Old Man Down The Road by John Fogerty
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
ETA: Actually now that I watched it again, they pan away a couple of times.
Cibo Matto’s Sugar Water is two single-take videos next to eachother.
It’s crazy, you gotta watch it. Directed by Michael Gondry of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind fame.
OKGo, “Here It Goes Again”
Lisa Loeb - Stay (I Missed You)
Lisa Loeb - Someone You Should Know
It looks very much like they were both indeed shot with one take.
I know there was another thread about this before; that’s how I discovered Lisa Loeb. But unfortunately, “one” and “take” aren’t allowable search terms on the dope. Bleah.
I remember that one. It might be hard to tell at youtube resolution, but there are several obvious dissolves visible at regular TV resolution.
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Coldplay - Yellow
Also OKGo’s Million Ways to be Cruel
Beyonce’s “All the single ladies”
There were a bunch of cuts in that one.
*** Ponder
I seem to remember a song not too long ago where, in the video, it followed a bunch of wires around a big house. It went from room to room just tracing the wires of the band members instruments and various other lights and stereos and stuff. Anyone know what video I’m talking about? It was a rock-ish song.
Lucas With The Lid Off - directed by Michael Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
Whatever you think of the song, it’s a very cool video!