{"id":202,"date":"2022-10-16T20:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T18:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/?p=202"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:51:23","slug":"ready-for-my-close-up-single-shot-music-video-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/2022\/ready-for-my-close-up-single-shot-music-video-clip\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready for my close-up (single shot music video clip)"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.caption { color: #DDD; font-size: 0.8em; }<\/style>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/lqmORiHNtN4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Janelle Monae &#8211; Cold War<br \/>\nDir. Wendy Morgan (2010)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/u5CVsCnxyXg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Radiohead &#8211; No Surprises<br \/>\nDir. Grant Gee (1998)<\/p>\n<p>Watch for the small smile after he emerges from the water.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/WxL1rw6cw-E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Bj\u00f6rk &#8211; Hunter<br \/>\nDir. Paul White (1997)<\/p>\n<p>Bj\u00f6rk transmogrifying into a cyber-elf-bear. I mean, don&#8217;t we all feel like that when head-shake dancing? Just not as adorable as Bj\u00f6rk.<\/p>\n<h3>Honourable mentions<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/MGxjIBEZvx0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Bob Dylan &#8211; Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965)<br \/>\nDir. Dylan with D. A. Pennebaker: Documentary: Dont Look Back (1967)<\/p>\n<p>Possibly the first music video clip also with partial cue card narration.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/0-EF60neguk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Sin\u00e9ad O&#8217;Connor &#8211; Nothing Compares 2 U<br \/>\nDir. John Maybury (1990)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/N4jR1RNypG0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">U2 &#8211; Numb<br \/>\nDir. Kevin Godley (1993)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/4iuO49jbovg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Alanis Morissette &#8211; Head Over Feet<br \/>\nDir. Michelle Laurita (1997)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/aygY5OqMuKE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">LCD Soundsystem &#8211; All My Friends<br \/>\nDir. Jon Blistein (2007)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/D8Ymd-OCucs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Lorde &#8211; Tennis Court<br \/>\nDir. Joel Kefali (2013)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/pbMwTqkKSps\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Billie Eilish &#8211; when the party\u2019s over<br \/>\nDir. Carlos L\u00f3pez Estrada (2018)<\/p>\n<p>If you like these, there&#8217;s a whole genre of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_one-shot_music_videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one shot music clips<\/a> which are also technically amazing but not necessarily as intense as these. See Michel Gondry&#8217;s Kylie Minogue clip, Moloko, OK Go, Feist, Spice Girls&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janelle Monae &#8211; Cold War Dir. Wendy Morgan (2010) Radiohead &#8211; No Surprises Dir. Grant Gee (1998) Watch for the small smile after he emerges from the water. Bj\u00f6rk &#8211; Hunter Dir. Paul White (1997) Bj\u00f6rk transmogrifying into a cyber-elf-bear. I mean, don&#8217;t we all feel like that when head-shake dancing? Just not as adorable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/2022\/ready-for-my-close-up-single-shot-music-video-clip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ready for my close-up (single shot music video clip)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boxc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}