Live With Me
1st Promo
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Producer: Nick Morris
Cinematographer: Marcel Zyskind
Editor: Paul Watts
Filming Location: Camberwell, London, UK
Date of Filming: 13th - 14th January 2003
Video Length: 06:00
Performance Version
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Filming Location: Asylum Studios, London, UK
Date of Filming: 18th January 2006
Video Length: 04:55
The town cryer that appears at the start of the video and whose image appears on the front cover of the single release is the the town cryer of Gloucester, UK - Alan Mynott, who also happens to hold the world record for the loudest human voice.
The actress who played the tragic and pitiful role of the binge drinking woman in the video was played by Scottish actress Kirsty Shepheard. For most of the video she was not putting on an act as she was actually drunk. You can read her profile at the IMDB by clicking here.
The video closes with her passing out on a bench near her home and dreaming of rolling down an unending golden staircase. As the location didn’t have the look required for the staircase sequence, it was decided to replace the original with a golden CG staircase. In post production (undertaken by a company known as MPC), the sequence was camera tracked, and once the director had approved the look, the 15 shots were rendered. The falling woman was then restored from the original footage into the CG environment. The opening shot was particularly challenging involving seamlessly joining 3 separate takes into one smooth 10-second shot. Her shadow and reflections were added throughout the sequence to further place her in the scene.
The promo video recieved it’s worldwide premiere on the UK’s Channel 4 on 3rd February 2006 at 11.30pm GMT.
3D on the video for Live With Me and why they decided to show alcoholism in it - “It was a study on alcoholism and the drive to want to drink yourself to oblivion and it had to be real and not acted, which was why it was such a precious sort of shoot. Some people were critical initially of the idea of using this subject matter with that song but I think the song’s a blues song and it’s about loss and this video does that entirely” [MTV Videography - April 2006]
Actress Kirsty Shepheard on what it was like to film the video for Live With Me - “It’s about a woman who attempts to drink herself to death as she is desperately unhappy after breaking up with someone. It’s not like a pop video - it’s like a tragic short film. We filmed the first part in the off-license when the woman I play picks up her booze after work. Over the weekend, she locks herself away in her own flat. We mixed up the shoots, so there are some parts shot on the street where I have to act drunk because they didn’t want me to be under the influence in public. They wanted me to drink to see the changes that actually happen. You can act drunk but it’s not as convincing. I had a hangover - because I mixed my drinks. But it was a controlled situation and I made my own choices as to how much I drank and at what pace” [Daily Record Newspaper - March 2006]
1st Promo
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Duration: 05:28
File Size: 26.7MB
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Duration: 03:57
File Size: 18.1MB
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