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From Videoville
artist: Feist
director: Patrick Daughters
label: Interscope
cinematographer: Shawn Kim
year: 2007
genre: One-Take
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Video was shot in one take as Feist dances in a warehouse with a large group of colorfully-dressed people.
Video treatment
In the establishing shot. Feist enters through a doorway into the warehouse. As she walks to left side of the screen and singing, the camera pans 90 degrese counter-clockwise with her standing at a close shot.
Dancers appear behind her, falling on the left and right side with others catching them as the camera pans out. After the dancers get back up, they and Feist, claps hands and sing the chorus.
In the second verse, the camera pans as Feist walks crouched and then as she stands straight, the camera pans back out. A full shot of Feist and the dancers as they sing the chorus.
The camera pans to left and up as one of the dancers picks up Feist and the others create a spiral. In an overhead shot, the dancer carries Feist sideways around the spiral until they reach the center of the spiral, where the dancer sets Feist down.
Feist points to dancers who fall into a fatal position as the camera rotates clockwise. The dancers get back up and Feist moves behind them, as the camera pans back down. The dancers lift her over their heads as the camera pans out to ground shot. The camera spins clockwise twice counter-clockwise and pans in as dancers separated and Feist is brought back down to her feet by several dancers.
The camera pans out to an overhead shot with Feist in the center as the dancers skip across the stage, a group entering from top (purple shirts) and bottom (green shirts), left (red shirts) and right (yellow shirts), top (green) and bottom (purple), left (yellow) and right (red). The dancers walk, then run, around Feist. As the camera pans in, the dancers huddle around Feist.
In bird's eye shot, the dancers lift her on back and wave their hands in the air. As the camera pans to an overhead shot, Feist is moved to front and is set down as the camera pans down. As the song closes, the dancers line up behind Feist and seem to have disappeared as she takes a bow.
