Marina & The Diamonds’ Mowgli’s Road by Chris Sweeney
Monday, 2. November 2009 - 3:30 pm

For this priority release Warner Music commissioner Alan Parks wanted something special for Marina & The Diamonds. Director Chris Sweeney had this to say about the production:
“We had puppet legs and arms made for Marina that she then wore on the shoot so we could get it all in camera. The shoot was very funny with a lovely team of puppeteers all dancing around in white body socks as they controlled Marina’s puppet limbs with sticks and fishing wire, all choreographed by Natricia Bernard. Then Gary Brown at Munky and an army of flame artists worked 27 hours a day painting out Marina and the dancers’ real legs and arms and putting in a new shadow for her. I have to say a huge thank you to everyone who worked on the video, it was a lot of fun”.

Marina & The Diamonds
Mowgli’s Road (Warner Music)
Director: Chris Sweeney
Producer: Sarah Tognazzi
Production company: Colonel Blimp
DoP: Chris Sabogal
Stylist: Scott Clark
Puppet maker: Monica Corder
Puppeteers: Lesley Butler and Seonaid Goody
Puppet assistants: Ashley Dando and Bryony Bradford
Choreographer: Natricia Bernard
Editor: Darren Baldwin at Final Cut
TK: James Banford at The Mill
Online: Peter Richardson/Various @ University Of Dundee,
Martin Cook/Various @ Orchard Post, Gary Brown/Various @ Munky
Commissioner: Alan Parks
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3. November 2009 - 10:49 am
Nice & simple & bizarre & I wish girls had those slinky arms, they were great
4. November 2009 - 3:30 pm
hmm. too simple I felt. didn’t quite get cooking.
4. November 2009 - 3:31 pm
Well done Mr. Sweeney. OMG those shadows, poor poor sleepless post guys
4. November 2009 - 3:51 pm
Hmm…a nice visual idea.
But one that doesn’t really gel with the song in my opinion…
I don’t know if a rather obtuse, one idea video like this is gonna propel Marina to the mainstream. Which would be an absolute shame!
10. December 2009 - 8:04 am
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