VANESSA-MAE's VIDEO CLIPS

IN REVIEW PART 2

During her career so far, Vanessa-Mae made 14 video clips. Some of these clips were used only as promotional material, others were available as bonus VCD to regular releases of the albums. The tittles of the video clips are listed below.

Storm (1997)
Interesting video clip that tells a story that can be considered as a funny wink of Vanessa-Mae towards her critics. The story line is as follows.

Vanessa-Mae arrives at a venue to perform in a concert (captures 1-7). She is chased by a woman and two men dressed in formal clothes who represent her critics (captures 8-11). Vanessa-Mae walks through the corridors seeking the entrance and her violins (captures 12-14) while the band already starts the intro (captures 6 and 17)). She finds her violin and enters the stage (captures 15-18).

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The men and women chasing Vanessa-Mae realise that they can't capture and hurt her now she is safe on stage in the open surrounded by her loving fans (captures 27-28, 31 and 37). Obviously, Vanessa-Mae has a great time on stage being there for her fans and she knows very well that she can't be touched now (captures 21-26 and 32-45).

The female chaser watches the scene with despair and disgust frozen on her face (capture 46). Vanessa-Mae looks into the audience seeing her chasers and realising that she is only safe for the moment (captures 47-53).

The chasers consult each other about what to do next (captures 54-55 and 58-59). They come close to the stage (captures 61) and Vanessa-Mae sees them and their determination (capture 63).

Although safe in front of her excited fans, Vanessa-Mae decides to flee (captures 63-64). She goes to the basement (captures 66-70), leaves her violin suit in the car (capture 71). The chasers come after her and find the suit in the car (captures 72-74). The end says: to be continued.' The question is did Vanessa-Mae escape, or.....?

I Feel Love (1998)
Appropriate video clip for Vanessa-Mae's versatile rendition of Donna Summer's famous classic 'I Feel Love' that effectively presents the dynamics that Vanessa-Mae brings into the song by combining her singing and violin play. The clip is built around Vanessa-Mae's statue that is shown as silhouette highlighted by backgrounds of varying colours (capture 20-21, 27-30, 32-35), or by focussing on her upper body that moves persuasively on the music as she sings or plays the violin (captures 2-4, 59, 14-15). All kind of tricks are used to express speed and dynamics. As an example, a road is filmed through the back window of a fast moving car (captures 1, 37-40) or by filming with the camera constantly moving around the subject - Vanessa-Mae (capture 11-12). Moreover, inserts are used un a very artistic manner to excel in dynamics and variety (captures 18-19, 22, 25-27, 42-53). All in all, a brilliantly composed clip that was very popular on MTV all over the world. It was not stated by so many words, but the single 'I Feel Love' was a world wide commercial success and, besides the fact that Vanessa-Mae's version is brilliantly performed, this video clip certainly is added to the success.

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Happy Valley (1998)
Wonderful and spectacular video clip for the song that Vanessa-Mae composed especially for the re-unification of Hong Kong to China. Being invited as the only non Chinese artist to participate in the ceremonies, Vanessa-Mae performed the song at midnight, becoming the final foreign artist to perform under British rule and the first under the new Chinese government. The clip consists of images of Vanessa-Mae's spectacular performance (captures 5-12 and 16-24) and images shot in Hong Kong (captures 1, 13-15). Vanessa-Mae performed accompanied by her own band, a women's choir, acrobats and dancers and fireworks, thus using the entire platform to bring her magnificent composition. The top line of captures show the opening shot with Chinese characters, Vanessa-Mae being made-up (captures 2-4) and the choir (capture 7). For the show, Vanessa-Mae was dressed in a fabulous long red dress in Chinese style made of silk fibre with splits along her legs (captures 5, 16, 19 and 21-22) and long red boots with high heels (capture 5 and 22). The close-ups of Vanessa-Mae show her visage in great detail with extreme amounts of heavy make-up as face wear and framed with all wild hair (captures 8-10 and 24). Parts of the clip are also used in the 'Storm On World Tour' documentary.  

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