The Face of Time - POV - Aarhus Universitet

A Danish Journal of Film Studies 107
third, and in a strange way, they're kind of a triptych, one develops
from the other. So it's been good.
On one of MTV's "pop up" video programs, they said that you didn't let
the singer know when you were filming. Is that true?
Yes. It was sort of odd because the idea was to film in all the in-
between parts. I got the idea from hanging out on the film set and
watching the monitor. Just watching all those incredible "chance"
things that happen when people don't think they're being filmed.
Those were the moments I was interested in. So I gave them a script
that was actually a re-written version of a scene from Last Tango In
Paris that they were doing, and we were kind of working out the
scene together, as you would with actors and a director, and then I
had the shutter control and I was just turning it on and off. And any
time I saw something interesting in front of the lens I would turn it
on. And then any time I would go up to work with them or explain
something to them, the d.p. would film me without me knowing it.
And after a while we were all completely confused about when it
was on and when it was off. It was a lot of fun.
What sort of time frame is involved in making music videos?
It varies. It basically depends on the budget. That was a simpler idea
and we did it in one day. The second one, called Big Mistake, we shot
in Barcelona. Natalie is walking down the street in Barcelona, and
the camera just keeps moving through the entire video, from right to
left. It's just one continuous move basically that's cut up. And so you
cut between her walking and singing, and she passes various people
and disturbances that she just walks past without them stopping