Fatboy Slim – Champion Sound

admin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:41:07 +0000

Fatboy Slim – ‘Champion Sound’ – Director Steve Glashier

We got asked to do this off the back of ‘That Old Pair of Jeans’. Assuming there’d be a budget we wrote a treatment that involved robots playing computer games: it involved flying to Japan, helicopters, that kind of stuff. We got it costed up and I think it came out at £70 grand, so obviously we never got a reply on that one. In reaction we thought, what’s the cheapest way to shoot a video? And we came up with the mobile phones, ‘cuz we’d seen the Nokia N93 and we liked the look of it but you couldn’t get them in the UK. We rang up Nokia, they sent some over, and we started working stuff out. The dominos needed a lot planning, because it had to run in time with the track, but once that was sorted it was just a case of choreographing the girls with the phones. I’m pretty sure this was the first music video to be shot on moblies ,The set up was painstaking: to give you an example, we had to file down the bottom of each of the biscuits so they stood up properly! Once it was all on place, which took the best part of the day, we had to leave it over knight: I remember closing the door as gently as I possibly could. It took a few attempts, but we got it done in one take the following day and we had a Fatboy Slim video under our belt. At the time, doing a video for Norman was a bit like the Holy Grail. Everything they say about doing a Fatboy Slim video is true: you do get offered everything, and we DID get offered everything, but everything was really, really shit! Be careful for what you wish for ‘cuz you might get it, that was the really big lesson we all learned form this.

Fatboy Slim – That Old Pair Of Jeans

admin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:51:18 +0000

Fatboy Slim – ‘That Old Pair of Jeans’ – Director Steve Glashier

Everything we’d done up until this point had been really gritty and nasty and very heavy on concept, so I just wanted to do something nice. The original idea was of a girl leaving home, plugging in an iPod and walking to work hula hoping, but as I was driving to the planned location, a cul-de-sac, saw the windmill and changed my promptly changed my mind. There was a small team of us working on it, Angie was brilliant- she had that proper hardcore Aussie attitude of ‘Let’s just get it done mate’- and the light was perfect. People think it’s shot on film in Dakota or something, but we were just really lucky with the weather.The video was an entry into a competition: Make a film about Juggling and Fatboy Slim uses it as a music video. We looked into it and the definition juggling states that it’s the movement of objects through the air. There’s no mention of balls or clubs or fucking chainsaws, so we thought we’d use hula-hoops. Herein lies the best part of the story- when we were announced as the winners the world’s juggling community went absolutely fucking nuts! Of everything I’ve done, I’m probably most proud of that: I fucking hate carnies!

STEVE GLASHIER» Fatboy Slim

Fatboy Slim – Champion Sound