THE WORK OF CHRIS CUNNINGHAM

1. Bjork and Chris Cunningham both collaborated to make the music video 'All for love'. Bjork wanted the video to be about female robots being built in this robotic world, but capturing this sense of sexuality and homosexuality. Chris Cunningham loved engineering and found this video an opportunity to express that. Bjork's role was to model her face and lip syncing, while Cunningham would be shooting and directing her face and video. They wanted to try and capture a heavenly feel, by making the robots and surroundings white. There were also a lot of erotic scenes because they wanted to melt through this white, hard surfaces of the robots with love. 

                     

2. When creating the music video 'Portishead', he used a lot of techniques to techniques to make his video different and stand out compared to other similar directors. He used slow-motion to make a floating visual effect. Objects move and float (laces, clothes, hair) and puts a focus onto them by using shallow depth of field. There were also other effects such as low lighting and cinematic, especially when these visuals are in sync with the rhythm. 

            

3. When creating Portishead, they used a certain technique to create the tripping effect, slow-motion effect, where the objects are floating about. A simple way of doing this would be filming with a high-speed camera and played back at a normal rate of 24 frames per second. A high speed camera can film up to a quarter of a million frames per second by running the film over a rotating prism instead of a shutter. The short bursts of recording when edited and stretched over a long period of time create super-slow motion effects.

Rotary prism camera