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Hello everyone,
I hope you and your family are at home safe. Bored, I decided to open this thread to collect information related to the Spice Girls videography. For some videos it's not easy to find them. I ask for your partecipation if it's possible! Thanks |
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WANNABE
Director: Johan Camitz Location: London, UK - St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel Shooting Date/Period: 22 April 1996 On Monday, April 22 we filmed the video for Wannabe. It was shoot in an empty building next to St. Pancras station that had been decorated to look like an old mansion house with with velvet drapes on the walls and echoing corridors. The central idea for the video was to recreate the same energy and dynamism that we showed when we used to crash into record companies and do the frentic hard sell. We invaded places and left people breathless. The director Johan came up with the location. The station building had been trasformed in an old mansion house populated with odd characters and stereotypes. Then we had to bounce through the place sing Wannabe sweeping away the cobwebs. I wore an outfit that had cost me 20 pound at a secondhand stall at Notting Hill market. The showgirl outfit was a leotard with sequins at the front and back. Unfortunately I also insisted on wearing a pair of towering platform shoes, à la Vivienne Westwood. I could hardly walk in them and certainly couldn't run. I fell over so many times that Johan grew hoarse yelling cut!. I wobbled through the entire video, nearly wiping out a lamp shade and almost toppling down a flight of stairs. All because I wanted to look tall. The video appeared to be shot as one continuous take from the beginning to end, but was in fact two takes that were so perfectly synchronized that nobody could tell. Geri - If Only SAY YOU'LL BE THERE Director: Vaughan Arnell Location: Mojave Desert, California USA Shooting Date/Period: 7-8 September 1996 We filmed the video in the Mojave Desert just outside Los Angeles. As we squeezed into our skin-tight catsuits in the blinfing heat we couldn't help remembering how we'd recorded the song in our trackie and socks in Elliot's studio in Sheffield, constantly getting caught out by the damp patch on the floor of his toilet. It was a world away. It was a fun shoot even thought it was incredibly hot. We had a fantastic hair guy who put mad colours in my hair, it was the first time I'd dyed it. The set was in the middle of nowhere and we all had our own Winnebagos, which was hysterical. Every take was just such a laugh for me at any rate. We stayed at a hotel in the middle of the desert that felt like something out of Thelma and Louise. Mel B - Catch A Fire 2 BECOME 1 Director: Andy Delaney/Monty Whitebloom (Big TV!) Location: London, UK Shooting Date/Period: 5-6 November 1996 The video for 2 Become 1 was shot against a green screen, the background was added later, and involved a lot of hanging around and not doing much, interspersed with loads of close-up camera angles. Oh, and there was a deer in the studio, because someone had had the bright idea of featuring one in the video. What the f**k is that deer doing here? we whispered to each other. Oh dear! we kept saying loudly. Oh dear, oh dear. Mel B - Catch A Fire MAMA Director: Andy Delaney/Monty Whitebloom (Big TV!) Location: Ealing, London UK Shooting Date/Period: February 1997 WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE Director: Gregg Masuak Location: London, UK Shooting Date/Period:February 1997 SPICE UP YOUR LIFE Director: Marcus Nispel Location: New York, USA Shooting Date/Period: 6-7 September 1997 TOO MUCH Director: Howard Greenhalgh Location: London, UK Shooting Date/Period: November 1997 STOP Director: James Brown Location: Dublin, Ireland Shooting Date/Period: January 1998 (HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE) ON TOP OF THE WORLD Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: VIVA FOREVER Director: Steve Box Location: Shooting Date/Period: GOODBYE Director: Howard Greenhalgh Location: Buckinghamshire, UK - Mentmore Towers Shooting Date/Period: 1-2 November 1998 IT'S ONLY ROCK 'N' ROLL (BUT I LIKE IT) Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: HOLLER Director: Jake Nava Location: Elstree, Hertfordshire UK - Elstree Studios Shooting Date/Period: 27-28 July 2000 LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY Director: Greg Masuak Location: Shooting Date/Period: HEADLINES (FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS) Director: Anthony Mandler Location: Iver, UK - Pinewood Studios Shooting Date/Period: This post has been edited by Babyboy: Nov 11 2021, 08:10 AM |
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Apr 8 2020, 02:54 PM
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I WANT YOU BACK
Director: Hype Williams Location: New York, USA Shooting Date/Period: I flew to New York from Nashville on a day off to shoot the video with Missy. Jim also featured in it, although the director didn't know he was my fiancé. I'd just sent off a picture with a note saying: I want this guy in the video. Hype Williams had had no objections. Yeah, he's good looking and cool. Okay. My make-up on the video was amazing applied by Missy's personal make-up artists. The Americans treat make-up as an art. They sculpted my face with dark and light contouring and made me look almost too perfect. But I took it all on board and went with it. My eyebrows were trimmed down and dyed light blonde and I had six different hairstyles during the shoot from braids to extensions. In the last scene my body was covered with luminous green make-up. Hype Williams joined in and painted the black cat stripes on my legs that completed the tiger look. He enjoyed it more that I did, but at 3 AM who gives a s**t? And all that body painting and messing about with my hair was worth it because the final cut of the video was wicked. Mel B - Catch A Fire WORD UP Director: Jimmy Gulzar/Wiz Location: Shooting Date/Period: WORD UP (AMERICAN VERSION) Director: Matthew Williamson Location: Los Angeles Shooting Date/Period: My next stop was Los Angeles, to shoot a second video for my single Word Up featured on the soundtrack of the cult Austin Powers film The Spy Who Shagged Me. I'd given Jim the job of directing the original video. The end result was was an amazing piece of animation but a bit too wacky for the Americans, so I was advise to make something more mainstream for the US market. The second video was directed by Matthew Williamson and featured Mini Me, the comically evil dwarf character from the film. Williamson insisted that I had a facial the day before the shoot. Well I did have really bad acne at the time, a definitive sign of stress. Also I still had a bit of pregnant belly and was feeling insecure about my body. The stylist of the video had done the TLC video for Unpretty, so I was really pleased to be working with her. However I was very self-conscious about my figure and insisted on wearing a corset underneath my outfit. When she came to measure me for the tight-fitting silver catsuit that that I was planning to wear she tried to reassure me. What's wrong with you? You look fantastic, you don't need a corset. Mel B - Catch A Fire TELL ME Director: Nigel Dick Location: Shooting Date/Period: FEELS SO GOOD Director: Martin Weisz Location: Shooting Date/Period: LULLABY Director: Andy Orrick Location: Marrakech, Morocco Shooting Date/Period: Phoenix was with me in Morocco when I filmed the video for my third single Lullaby, the song I wrote for her with Biff when she was a baby. I found Marrakech quite a strange place, partly because absolutely everyone was dressed in the same way. It was like entering a different world. Mel B - Catch A Fire Really plain and simple. The song's all about Phoenix when she was born, so I've got little clips of Phoenix in it. I was a bit dubious about putting her in it but then I thought, "Well, the song's about her, she might as well be in it." It's just a simple, really chilled song. It's just me walking around the streets of Morocco and then I get home to my beach house - it's great. It's a bit more toned down than my other stuff. Mel B - Official website (2001) PROPER CRIMBO Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: TODAY Director: Mark McConnell Location: Shooting Date/Period: FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE Director: Martin Weisz Location: Los Angeles, California USA - Universal Studios Hollywood Shooting Date/Period: This post has been edited by Babyboy: Nov 11 2021, 10:19 AM |
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WHEN YOU'RE GONE
Director: Marcus Nispel Location: New York, USA Shooting Date/Period: GOIN' DOWN Director: Giuseppe Capotondi Location: Los Angeles, USA Shooting Date/Period: July 1999 NORTHERN STAR Director: Steven Green Location: Cape Town, South Africa/London, UK Shooting Date/Period: August/September 1999 NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN Director: Francis Lawrence Location: Malibu, California USA Shooting Date/Period: I TURN TO YOU Director: Cameron Casey Location: Ibiza, Spain - Es Paradis Nightclub Shooting Date/Period: June 2000 IF THAT WERE ME Director: Cameron Casey Location: London UK - Connaught Bridge Shooting Date/Period: October 2000 HERE IT COMES AGAIN Director: Charles Infante Location: Los Angeles, USA Shooting Date/Period: November 2002 ON THE HORIZON Director: Howard Greenhalgh Location: Benalmádena, Spain Shooting Date/Period: April 2003 YEH YEH YEH Director: Ray Kay Location: Oslo, Norway Shooting Date/Period: June 2003 MELT Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: NEXT BEST SUPERSTAR Director: Ray Kay Location: London, UK Shooting Date/Period: January 2005 BETTER ALONE Director: Mary McCartney Location: Shooting Date/Period: March 2005 FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE Director: Nikolaj Georgiew Location: Hanover, Germany Shooting Date/Period: August 2005 BETTER ALONE (SECOND VERSION) Director: Robert Broellochs Location: Mannheim, Germany Shooting Date/Period: December 2005 THE MOMENT YOU BELIEVE Director: Tim Royes Location: London UK, Ealing Studios Shooting Date/Period: February 2007 I WANT CANDY Director: Tim Royes Location: Shooting Date/Period: February 2007 CAROLYNA Director: Tim Royes Location: Shooting Date/Period: May 2007 THIS TIME Director: Adrian Moat Location: Shooting Date/Period: September 2007 UNDERSTAND Director: Avi Diamond/Jamie Milligan Location: Shooting Date/Period: WE LOVE TO ENTERTAIN YOU Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: ROCK ME Director: Marcus Sternberg Location: Manchester, UK - Projekts Skatepark Shooting Date/Period: June 2011 THINK ABOUT IT Director: Howard Greenhalgh Location: Shooting Date/Period: WEAK Director: Michael Baldwin Location: London, UK Shooting Date/Period: LET THERE BE LOVE Director: Marcus Gerwinat Location: Brighton, UK Shooting Date/Period: I KNOW HIM SO WELL Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: HE AIN'T HEAVY, HE'S MY BROTHER Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: LOVING YOU Director: Jonny Kight Location: London, UK Shooting Date/Period: July 2013 COOL AS YOU Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: ANYMORE Director: David East Location: Shooting Date/Period: DEAR LIFE Director: David East Location: Shooting Date/Period: HOLD ON Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: ROOM FOR LOVE Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: AROUND THE WORLD (LA LA LA LA LA) Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: DON'T TALK JUST KISS Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: HIGH HEELS Director: Sylvie Weber Location: Shooting Date/Period: For the video, my aunt is a hairdresser, so, from a really young age, I used to sweep the floor, and all the ladies used to give me a little bit of pocket money, [for] helping out and getting a cup of tea and stuff. It was something that I immediately warmed to. When you go to the hairdressers and get a facial or whatever, they're kind of your therapist, aren't they? It's just an environment where people chat, they talk about their problems, and, of course, they're getting a little bit of self-love, a little bit pampered. Getting all ready and going out to hit the town. It felt like it was a perfect starting point for the video — to sort of go out and let our hair down. The metal bodice I wear, It's such an incredible piece; Graham Cruz designs and makes these wonderful bodices. I had a piece for the Pride tour that I did with Sink the Pink, and [Cruz] molds it to you. But also, on the day of the video shoot, he was having to kind of cut and shape it, because it's quite sharp on the edges as well. Sometimes there are certain moves you do, and it's like, Oh, yeah, can't quite do that there. But I think the effect that they give, it's definitely worth a little bit of pain. Melanie C - nylon.com WHO I AM Director: Sylvie Weber Location: Shooting Date/Period: Making the video was traumatic. I’m not gonna lie. I didn’t realise how difficult it would be to face myself. I had to face so many painful memories. It wasn’t until I watched it back I found peace with it. Melanie C - inews.co.uk BLAME IT ON ME Director: Sylvie Weber Location: Shooting Date/Period: IN AND OUT OF LOVE Director: Graham Cruz Location: Shooting Date/Period: FEARLESS Director: Graham Cruz Location: Shooting Date/Period: INTO YOU Director: Graham Cruz Location: Shooting Date/Period: STOP YOUR CRYING YOUR HEART OUT Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: TOUCH ME Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: This post has been edited by Babyboy: Dec 11 2021, 11:52 AM |
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LOOK AT ME
Director: Vaughan Arnell Location: Prague, Czech Republic Shooting Date/Period: March 1999 I wanted to make a video that could contain all the ideas and infuences that I've been writing down and soaking up for months. I brought the director Vaughan Arnell, who I knew from the Spice Girls, and I told him that I wanted to do something influenced by the Audrey Hepburn movies I'd been watching films like La Dolce Vita. Look At Me was about all the different masks we wear and the different roles women play. It was a chance to indulge my Hollywood fantasies. I appared as the virgin bride, the vamp, the bitch and the nun and it was all shot in black and white and set in Prague. Not your average pop video. For the freaky middle section we had an old horse-drawn hearse carring a coffin to the cemetery. The coffin was draped in a Union Jack with a wreath spelling out Ginger on the side. That was my dark sense of humor, Ginger is dead. I remember lying in the coffin in the freezing cold Prague with long red tresses and red ballet shoes. The idea was to look like the Pre-Raphaelite beauties I'd seen in Paintings like Flaming June or Ophelia. It wasn't supposed to be too serious but I did want want the video to make the point that I had moved on. And now if Ginger was finally dead, it seems only sensible and hygienic to bury her. Ginger went out in the way she would have liked, with a funeral on Top Of The Pops. Geri - Just For The Record MI CHICO LATINO Director: Doug Nichol Location: Sardinia, Italy Shooting Date/Period: July 1999 I wanted the video for Mi Chico Latino to be very different in style to Look At Me and not just for creative reasons. Look At Me was filmed in Prague in the freezing cold and was very long and complicated shoot. I was determined this time I was going to do the video somewhere warm. I also wanted it to be a simple and straightforward video because I realised that no one really understood or even notice the ideas I'd put into Look At Me. In a video it's blink and you miss it so why make it hard on myself? Instead I thought I'd cut to the chase and shoot the video off the coast of Sardinia on a yatch with some very cute male dancers. The location was stunning. Tha yatch, the weather and the sea were all beautiful. It was wonderful sitting around on the boat with just a few others aboard and we had some really lovely times relaxing in the sunshing and chatting on the warm nights. The dancers came on the yatch for the filming and then left, leaving the rest of us to have a meal before going to our cabins for the night. On the first day of filming, we were doing sequences on the beach and there were people raking the sand. I thought they were being over-meticulous about making the beach looking perfect. They didn't tell me until afterwards that the real reason was that there were jellyfish everywhere. In retrospect, it was probably best that I didn't know. Geri - Just For The Record LIFT ME UP Director: Howard Greenhalgh Location: Málaga, Spain Shooting Date/Period: October 1999 BAG IT UP Director: Dawn Shadforth Location: Shooting Date/Period: January 2000 IT'S RAINING MEN Director: Jim Canty/Jake-Sebastian Wynne Location: Shooting Date/Period: SCREAM IF YOU WANNA GO FASTER Director: Jim Canty/Jake-Sebastian Wynne Location: Shooting Date/Period: CALLING Director: Pierluca De Cario Location: Barcelona, Spain Shooting Date/Period: October 2001 RIDE IT Director: Luca Tommassini Location: Milan, Italy Shooting Date/Period: September 2004 DESIRE Director: Andy Morahan Location: Shooting Date/Period: HALF OF ME Director: Lawrance Lim Location: Shooting Date/Period: ANGELS IN CHAINS Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: This post has been edited by Babyboy: Nov 10 2021, 03:42 PM |
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WHAT I AM
Director: Greg Masuak Location: Shooting Date/Period: WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG? Director: Greg Masuak Location: Lancaster Desert, California USA Shooting Date/Period: February 2001 The video was shot in LA. It was quite nerve-racking 'cause the actual idea for the video was mine. I worked with a great producer who let all my ideas run. We shot it in Lancaster Desert near LA and even though it looks really hot, it was actually freezing cold. I was in a little dress for two days and my mum and auntie came with me. They were standing at the side in massive jumpers and Puffa jackets! We had a really good laugh though. Emma - mykindamusic It was amazing. Again the idea came from me which was quite nerve wracking 'cos it was like 'how is this going to turn out?' I worked with a fantastic director and I just told him all my ideas and we elaborated on them and it was great fun but it was actually freezing. Can you believe that? It was freezing cold but the whole crew were great and I had a great laugh. Emma - dotmusic I'm scared of big dogs and I was shaking like a leaf. The video was my idea and when I was sitting there with a wolf behind me, I was thinking I must be mad. When the trainer brought them out I thought, they can't be that bad. But they were growling and barking and I thought, please just do this shot, get this over with. Unluckily, one of the dogs liked the cream that was on my legs and started licking my thigh, I just told the director, 'Film! Film! Quick.' The trainer was still there the whole time and was sitting just out of shot, while I was lying down with it. Suddenly she said, 'Stop, I don't like the look in his eye.' That was it, I was up and out of there. Emma TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Director: Greg Masuak Location: Sardinia, Italy Shooting Date/Period: WE'RE NOT GONNA SLEEP TONIGHT Director: Phil Griffin Location: Shooting Date/Period: FREE ME Director: Tim Royes Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Shooting Date/Period: MAYBE Director: Harvey & Carolyn Location: Shooting Date/Period: I'LL BE THERE Director: Giuseppe Capotondi Location: Paris, France Shooting Date/Period: CRICKETS SING FOR ANAMARIA Director: Harvey & Carolyn Location: Shooting Date/Period: DOWNTOWN Director: Harvey & Carolyn Location: London, UK Shooting Date/Period: ALL I NEED TO KNOW Director: Max & Dania Location: London, UK Shooting Date/Period: December 2006 I love this video because I was pregnant with Beau and I was ecstatic. Not many people knew because I was only around 3 months pregnant but I kept rubbing my tummy on the shoot and my make-up artist guessed. Emma - Instagram BABY PLEASE DON'T STOP Director: Marc Klasfeld Location: Shooting Date/Period: YOU'RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY Director: Max & Dania Location: Shooting Date/Period: DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME (FEED THE WORLD) Director: Location: Shooting Date/Period: This post has been edited by Babyboy: Nov 11 2021, 10:24 AM |
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OUT OF YOUR MIND
Director: Jake Nava Location: Shooting Date/Period: NOT SUCH AN INNOCENT GIRL Director: Jake Nava Location: Shooting Date/Period: A MIND OF ITS OWN Director: Simon Atkinson/Adam Townly Location: Shooting Date/Period: THIS GROOVE Director: Andy Hylton Location: Shooting Date/Period: LET YOUR HEAD GO Director: Phil Griffin Location: Shooting Date/Period: This post has been edited by Babyboy: Nov 2 2021, 03:57 PM |
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Apr 9 2020, 11:05 AM
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Thank you for this.
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Nov 2 2021, 02:06 PM
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I am adding all the infos I found, step by step.
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Nov 2 2021, 10:00 PM
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Amazing work, thank you for this!
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 Nov 2 2021, 10:03 PM
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Thanks. You should also attach the videos themselves. Look how it's done in other artist forums.
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Nov 8 2021, 04:31 PM
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Nice idea.
I'll update everything soon. |
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