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Frost channels Brownjohn for new video

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Posted by Eliza Williams, 19 February 2010, 17:53    Permalink    Comments (9)

Lay There and Hate Me by Ben Harper and Relentless 7; director: James Frost; prod co: Zoo Films, LA; visual effects: The Mill, LA

 

James Frost has created this James Bond-esque video for new track Lay There and Hate Me by Ben Harper and Relentless 7...

 

"I'd been looking at a lot of Robert Brownjohn's work around the time I
wrote the treatment, the song evoked the strong saturated colours and
projection techniques of the late 60s early 70s," says Frost.



"The song had this great groove, so I thought it was a perfect excuse to sit
in a cold studio on a rainy day in December with a naked girl, camera and
projector. The performance part was shot using two cameras, one which fed
directly into our actual camera so it was a pure duplication of itself
which was back projected behind the band. It's certainly a tried and tested
technique, but still it's quite trippy at points, particularly if you were
standing behind it. My greatest challenge was getting the band to stop
looking at themselves on the screen behind so they could make strange video
feedback patterns of themselves."

 

James Frost also appears in our current issue of CR, which celebrates the mag's 30th birthday - Frost expresses his delight about the imminent rebirth of Polaroid film in our 30/30 feature, more info here.

 

 

 

9 Comments

It's a really nice aesthetic treatment, it's just a shame about the casual sexism of the naked woman, what's the point? What does it add, or have to do with the song? There's so much causal sexism in the industry it's no wonder there's hardly any women designers…or those there are find it hard to break through or get taken as seriously as the men…the video may ape the 70s but we don't need to reinforce those kinds of negative stereotypes…
noel douglas
2010-02-19 18:15:40


Hey, I've got nothing against naked ladies. Under my clothes, I am one myself. But it really does get kind of old, this pervasive pointless naked-ladyness. Snore.
Katy
2010-02-19 18:39:57


now was that creative ?
please post better music videos if you must
2010-02-21 20:16:54


Noel, check out the lyrics... Never trust a 'Woman'... Lay there and hate me... that does actually give a clue to the content of the video.

Agreed, not really creative, a nod back to the late 60s early 70s and the projection techniques used at that time....
CWCreative
2010-02-22 11:24:57


The video is as clichéd as the song - so a perfect match
Sakis
2010-02-22 16:45:57


Although the video isn't the most original and I'm not a fan of the song, I did quite enjoy watching it as i do like the old school projection techniques.

Thanks for sharing.
Shane
2010-02-23 10:23:00


Hey, this is really good. Great video and music combined. Would like to see and hear them live on stage.

Cheers
Paul
Paul Gillard
2010-02-23 19:44:39


Casual sexism? What nonsense! I am a woman and I love the omnipresent, mysterious, gigantic, goddess-like silhouette of the girl watching over them. I think she is portrayed as a force of nature. If people can't deal with human anatomy in the XXI century... they should go back to another era.
I love this video, a new execution of those classic groovy 70's psychedelic symmetrical graphics... cool.
Patsy
2010-02-23 20:10:41


Not a fan of the song, but the video rocks, love the atmosphere and the sequence when she unfolds into different colour versions of herself. Love the nodding heads sequence at the beginning too.
Dom
2010-02-23 20:21:14


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