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The opening shot is a little confusing
and a little unreal.

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That sense of unreality is because
nearly every shot in this video

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is being played back at the wrong speed.

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We filmed this section at 30 frames a second,

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but it’s being played back at 24,

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80% of normal speed,

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so it just seems a little bit off.

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Plus, we’re using rapid cuts with
no continuity between them.

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Different clothes, different locations,

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different everything.

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We’ve also got some cutaways
in extreme slow motion,

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because it looks spectacular,

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and it lets me do a moody stare into the distance

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without having to hold it for so long that
it becomes awkward.

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It also lets us fit in some product placement.

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Some of the shots aren’t slow motion, though.

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This is being played back
faster than real time,

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so that the dancers seem more synchronised
and precise than they really are.

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I mean, don’t get me wrong,
they’re good,

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but with the speed change,
their movements look superhuman.

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Also, there are dancers,

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because having attractive people
move in attractive ways

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makes the video more appealing.

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We couldn’t afford a wind machine
for this shot,

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so we bought a leaf blower
from a hardware store.

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We kept the receipt,
so we can return it after we’re done.

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The trouble with filming everything in the
wrong frame rate

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is that my voice won’t sound right.

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So the vocal track for this
was pre-recorded in a studio,

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and I’m lipsyncing it at the wrong speed.

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If my lips don’t quite match up
at some point,

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we’ll just cut to another take,

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or to a completely random slow-mo shot of
an object being destroyed,

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and no-one’ll care.

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Actually, this isn’t the studio where we
recorded the vocal track.

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I recorded this weeks ago
so we could plan everything,

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but we didn’t film that session,

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so we had to go to this separate
recording studio to fake that footage.

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This microphone isn’t even plugged in.

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- We’re now about two thirds
of the way through

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so here’s a middle eight from me,
the featured artist,

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in an attempt to cross-promote us.

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Our schedules didn’t match up,
so this was all filmed separately.

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Despite that, we’re still trying
to convince everyone

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that Tom and I met up and are great friends

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and are definitely in the same room.

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- This is the bit where we break up the video
with a bit of diegetic audio,

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so people can’t just rip the whole thing
off YouTube.

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This isn’t actually a party.

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It may look like we’re having
a spectacular time,

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as that’s the image we want to project,

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but in reality we are on our fifteenth take.

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Everyone would quite like to go home.

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This final section is important, though,

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because it resolves the question at the start:

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why am I falling into a swimming pool?

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Because ending the same way we started
makes the audience think that

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there’s a sensible, circular narrative that
ties everything together.

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Even if there isn’t.

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You can’t buy this on iTunes
or stream it on Spotify.

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It’s... it’s not a song.