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Award for Best Use of Footage in a Pop Music Video

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Submissions details

Cited Work

Team X-treme: Mayday 2004

Production Company

Cross Contacts

Producer /Director

Daniel Klenke

Writer

Daniel Klenke

Film/VT Editor Thomas Sommer

Archive Researcher (s)

Daniel Klenke & Simone Horn

Top Sources of Footage ZDF Archive
   
   
   
   

Duration

3 mins 22 secs

First Shown

VIVA, MTV, VH1 - April 2004

Country of Origin

Germany

Synopsis

Daniel Klenke, director of the Team X-treme video: “We show extreme happiness, extreme suffering, extreme despots and extreme benefactors. Extreme rituals, extreme transformations. Extreme strength and will. Extreme team spirit. Extreme beauty. Extreme dancing and partying. We show individuals and masses. The hypnotic effect of the video is created by visual impressions in association with the music of Members of Mayday. And we have been able to achieve the visual effects by using images from the ZDF Archive in combination with live pictures of the MAYDAY parties.”

Reasons for Submission

This year’s techno hymn of the MAYDAY movement, Team X-treme by Members of Mayday, has made its way to number nine in the German dancefloor charts.

Cited Work

Faultline - "Biting Tongues"

Production Company

Black Dog Films

Producer

John Payne

Director

Vernie Yeung
Film/VT Editor Vernie Yeung

Archive Researcher (s)

Vernie Yeung
Top Sources of Footage  
   
   
   
   

Duration

3 minutes

First Shown

March 2004

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

City nightscape

Reasons for Submission

Good use of footage

Cited Work

Band Aid 20

Production Company

Endemol UK

Producer

 

Director

 
Film/VT Editor  

Archive Researcher (s)

 
Top Sources of Footage TBA
   
   
   
   

Duration

 

First Shown

18/12/2004

Country of Origin

UK

Synopsis

TBA

Reasons for Submission

Library footage was a vital element in this production.

Cited Work

Avril - "Be Yourself"

Production Company

Metronomic

Producer

Jeremy Rochigneux

Director

Patrick Volve
Film/VT Editor Patrick Volve

Archive Researcher (s)

Jeremy Rochigneux
Top Sources of Footage Tele Images nature
  National Geographic
  Getty Images
  Film Images
   

Duration

3'40"

First Shown

M6, 15/05/2004

Country of Origin

France

Synopsis

This music video is composed with documentary film archives about monkeys living in their natural environment. This is a rhythmic research, an ironic diversion of the text of Avril's song that evoke the area of fashion and its protagonists.

Reasons for Submission

Usually Pop Music Videos show the artist singing. The use of Archive Footage is very rare in this field. The creative bias was to show wild and natural life in opposition to the lyrics evoking the trendy world of fashion. This unexpected Pop Music Video, largely broadcasted on M6, has contributed to the success of the title.

 

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