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Music Video: Taylor Swift - "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
Member Since: 8/26/2011
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Originally posted by JasperX
Whoever saying this is just in one shot
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Member Since: 3/27/2010
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Originally posted by omgitsralph
This can't be one shot/one camera, no, impossible.
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EXACTLY. Some scenes might be shot in a long take. However, editing shows that it's not a one shot vid.
Anyways, using one-shot gimmick to promote a banal music video, not necessary regarding that the song has already been a success
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Member Since: 12/31/2008
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I love it i love it. It fits the song perfectly. Taylor`s over reacting is super cute.
I wonder what do Jake Gyl think about this?
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Member Since: 4/6/2011
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I might be the only one but i REALLY enjoyed the video. I might even put it in my top 10 videos of this year. So much fun and just simple yet so effective. It could have been edited a little better,but I love it as it is.
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Member Since: 12/13/2011
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Originally posted by JasperX
Whoever saying this is just in one shot
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Taylor said that herself, and she was there..
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Member Since: 3/27/2010
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Originally posted by Icannot
Taylor said that herself, and she was there..
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There are some others artists also claimed their video was being taken in one shot, but not.
(like O.K. GO)
Regarding all the camera works, rail-tracks, and tractor they were using, the vid simple can't be just in one shot. And it shows in those scenes with transition edits.
It's just a illusion of the concept the crew claimed they will achieve, and it seems to be like one.
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Member Since: 8/26/2011
Posts: 15,572
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Originally posted by JasperX
There are some others artists also claimed their video was being taken in one shot, but not.
(like O.K. GO)
Regarding all the camera works, rail-tracks, and tractor they were using, the vid simple can't be just in one shot. And it shows in those scenes with transition edits.
It's just a illusion of the concept the crew claimed they will achieve, and it seems to be like one.
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I think the more important question is why do you give a f*ck?
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Member Since: 7/1/2005
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Great video except the random animal costumes. Those are so overplayed (cue Urban Outfitters).
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Member Since: 12/12/2008
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She's repeating herself 4 years ago
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Member Since: 2/7/2012
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I'm so ready for this new era !
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Member Since: 4/30/2011
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Cute
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Member Since: 7/22/2010
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Taylor Swift parties with a bunch of furries... interesting...
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Member Since: 3/27/2010
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Originally posted by Ripedie254
I think the more important question is why do you give a f*ck?
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Why shouldnt I? I bought two of her albums.
And why do you give fu*k about me.
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Member Since: 4/23/2011
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Cute video.
Noah Mills is HOT.
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Member Since: 3/31/2012
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Originally posted by Sept
She's repeating herself 4 years ago
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What was she like 4 years ago?
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Member Since: 3/31/2012
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Quote:
Originally posted by JasperX
There are some others artists also claimed their video was being taken in one shot, but not.
(like O.K. GO)
Regarding all the camera works, rail-tracks, and tractor they were using, the vid simple can't be just in one shot. And it shows in those scenes with transition edits.
It's just a illusion of the concept the crew claimed they will achieve, and it seems to be like one.
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I saw some behind the scenes videos of her running from one scene while basically ripping off her clothes for another scene. I think the transition edits that you were saying were just squeezed in the video but I think it was really a one take video.
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Member Since: 7/4/2007
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You can shoot the people and such in one take, then in post-production edit in some stuff for clarity/aesthetics, yes.
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Member Since: 4/15/2011
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I don't get why she likes to dress like a grandma.
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Member Since: 6/6/2011
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I loved it She's so flawless
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Member Since: 4/9/2012
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Swift's latest clip plays out (in one shot?) like a gigantic pop-up book, creating a fantastical world in the process.
By James Montgomery
Taylor Swift's music videos often work overtime to infuse the everyday with the effervescent, mixing staid reality with fantastic, fairytale-like escapes. The same can be said for her music, too, which is why her latest single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," is such a welcome departure: It's a bread-and-butter breakup song, only without the hope of a story-book ending.
Which is probably why, when it came time to film a video for the song, Swift realized she couldn't stray very far from the fantastic. "Never Ever," which debuted on MTV Thursday (August 30), makes no attempts at portraying reality. Instead, it plays out like one gigantic pop-up book, all handmade scenery, bright colors and sweeping camera turns. It may or may not have been recorded in one single take (as is often the case with these things, directors have ways of hiding a seamless break in the action, like in OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass"), and plays out across a multitude of fast-changing sets with a dizzying delight. Shoot, she even made the choice to dress her band members up as cuddly animals — a slight they seem determined to pay her back for by mugging it up in supremely cloying fashion. If this is reality, it's certainly not one I've ever witnessed (at least not sober).
There is a capricious, childlike quality to the clip, one that recalls the best work of French director Michel Gondry. And I'm not just talking in spirit either; from the cardboard cars to the use of television screens to break up the action to the whole "disappearing bed" trick, it sure seems like director Declan Whitebloom — who did Swift's equally eye-catching "Mean" video — wore out his copy of Gondry's "Director's Series" DVD while doing research for the video. Though, while Gondry's dreamlike work sometimes blurs into pure nightmare (see some of the later scenes in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" for proof), Whitebloom never veers off the bright and sunny path. He knows that Taylor hasn't matured enough to get dark — at least not yet.
So while it may seem that with her defiant new single, Swift may be venturing into more mature territory (aside from the "cuz, likes"), her latest video should assuage her fans' fears. Blissed-out and hyper-saturated, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" is whimsical to the max, a treat for the eyes and a technical marvel to behold. Chalk it up as the most fantastical clip she's ever made, one that show's she not above taking a risk. Then again, I suppose it's a calculated one: More often than not, reality can be a bummer, so let's get surreal. Hey, it's worked out pretty well for Michel Gondry.
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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/169...ic-video.jhtml
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