# Music videos that appear to be shot entirely in one take. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298 "2009-02-11T00:19:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/1 "2009-02-11T00:19:07Z")
I love music videos like this. I can think of four offhand, alone: [REM’s Imitation of Life](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfnQip3QJVg) [The Spice Girls’ Wannabe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3wgaWAHo2Q) [Tom Petty’s You Don’t Know How It Feels](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k61ck1PuGEnxiGfDjK) [The Replacements Bastards of Young](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xow41_the-replacements-bastards-of-young_music) 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? ---
**Author:** ![Elyanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5ac83/32.png) [@Elyanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elyanna)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/2 "2009-02-11T00:25:28Z")
[Feist - 1 2 3 4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Z-DIAthbM) ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/3 "2009-02-11T00:33:49Z")
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). [Semisonic’s Closing Time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdmLmIArqWM) ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/4 "2009-02-11T00:34:02Z")
Jack Johnson - [Sitting, Waiting, Wishing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0u-0X8sPe0) ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/5 "2009-02-11T00:39:41Z")
U2 [The Sweetest Thing.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wfv3lJs5qE&feature=channel) (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) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/6 "2009-02-11T00:46:37Z")
Michael Penn - [Try](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oivI6HCEPt0) (directed by Paul Thomas Anderson) ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/7 "2009-02-11T01:13:21Z")
The queen of them all, Spike Jones’ video for [Cibo Matto’s “Sugar Water”](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1j5eh_cibo-matto-sugar-water-pv_music) - and it’s a visual palindrome, too. ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/8 "2009-02-11T01:22:16Z")
Paul Kelly’s [God Told Me To](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptzrY7JuG_4) - 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.) > [@Elyanna](#): > > [Feist - 1 2 3 4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Z-DIAthbM) Not to mention: [Feist - My Moon, My Man](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWrNCCx2p5U) and [Feist - I Feel It All](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvOOegxKIoI) from the same album. All of them great videos. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/9 "2009-02-11T01:43:57Z")
[Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don’t Give Up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiCRZLr9oRw) The directors, Godley and Creme, had pushed the envelope of video editing with their previous video, [Waung Chung’s “Everybody Have Fun Tonight”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMylfkSDKV0) where they edited every single frame. So they decided on this one to have no edits at all. [Peter Gabriel on the experience of making this video.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwAsiGUrB1M) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/10 "2009-02-11T01:57:36Z")
[I Wanna Be Sedated](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FxaJKm9sdI) by The Ramones [Numb](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWHwI-Hvpzo) by U2 [Old Man Down The Road](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Id6sGrJzgg) by John Fogerty ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/11 "2009-02-11T02:07:32Z")
[Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMMQqE9x6i4) ETA: Actually now that I watched it again, they pan away a couple of times. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/12 "2009-02-11T02:35:16Z")
Cibo Matto’s [Sugar Water](http://www.mtv.com/videos/cibo-matto/46392/sugar-water.jhtml) 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. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/13 "2009-02-11T02:50:11Z")
OKGo, [“Here It Goes Again”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI) ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/14 "2009-02-11T04:18:49Z")
[Lisa Loeb - Stay (I Missed You)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka9mCmx9Jhs) [Lisa Loeb - Someone You Should Know](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajnU4ZxH1so) 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. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > [Old Man Down The Road](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Id6sGrJzgg) by John Fogerty I remember that one. It might be hard to tell at youtube resolution, but there are several obvious dissolves visible at regular TV resolution. \*\*\* Ponder ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/15 "2009-02-11T04:28:24Z")
Coldplay - [Yellow](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI8I6qcxWyU) ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/16 "2009-02-11T04:34:34Z")
> [@ZenBeam](#): > > OKGo, [“Here It Goes Again”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI) Also OKGo’s [Million Ways to be Cruel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbdbVhBGETQ) ---
**Author:** ![eno801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c2a13f/32.png) [@eno801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eno801)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/17 "2009-02-11T04:42:42Z")
Beyonce’s “All the single ladies” [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGD0pzvDWxQ&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGD0pzvDWxQ&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/18 "2009-02-11T04:51:07Z")
> [@eno801](#): > > Beyonce’s “All the single ladies” > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGD0pzvDWxQ&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGD0pzvDWxQ&feature=related) There were a bunch of cuts in that one. \*\*\* Ponder ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/19 "2009-02-11T04:53:05Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298/20 "2009-02-11T04:58:58Z")
[Lucas With The Lid Off](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY5zaDZq0sc) - directed by Michael Gondry (_Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind_) Whatever you think of the song, it’s a very cool video! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-videos-that-appear-to-be-shot-entirely-in-one-take/485298.md?page=2)