http://www.theage.com.au/news/enter...at-they-wontsee/2006/12/28/1166895421408.html
It's only rock'n'roll but Batman's folk don't like what they won't see
Daniel Ziffer
December 29, 2006
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* VIDEO U2's Window In The Skies
ROCK band U2's new Melbourne-made film clip stars Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain and Jay-Z, but John Batman's village is barely seen.
Filmed last month in Richmond laneways and the suburb's Corner Hotel, the clip for Window in the Skies is a whirl of editing that splices archival footage of Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Patti Smith, Roy Orbison, Nat King Cole, Kanye West and Marvin Gaye, among others, so it appears that they are singing the song. For location manager Ben Lowe, the fact that little of the local footage made the final edit was to be expected. "We're actually just getting a few little bits and pieces," he said yesterday. "It's the bane of my life, doing big set-ups and getting seconds (of footage)," he joked.
But the 300 extras and five models hired for the shoot should not feel put out — the band is hardly seen either. When The Age visited the shoot, a mob of punters was jogging past the camera, used for just over a second, while most local footage is of a crowd waving arms inside the hotel.
The arms, raised as though watching a band onstage, hide the four members of U2 — lead singer Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen jnr.
Over two nights in November, the band played to 127,275 people at Telstra Dome. Before their second concert, they did a shoot for an IMAX film in a stadium function room; the clip in Richmond was filmed the next day for the new track on their latest album, U218 Singles.
It's only rock'n'roll but Batman's folk don't like what they won't see
Daniel Ziffer
December 29, 2006
Web links
* VIDEO U2's Window In The Skies
ROCK band U2's new Melbourne-made film clip stars Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain and Jay-Z, but John Batman's village is barely seen.
Filmed last month in Richmond laneways and the suburb's Corner Hotel, the clip for Window in the Skies is a whirl of editing that splices archival footage of Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Patti Smith, Roy Orbison, Nat King Cole, Kanye West and Marvin Gaye, among others, so it appears that they are singing the song. For location manager Ben Lowe, the fact that little of the local footage made the final edit was to be expected. "We're actually just getting a few little bits and pieces," he said yesterday. "It's the bane of my life, doing big set-ups and getting seconds (of footage)," he joked.
But the 300 extras and five models hired for the shoot should not feel put out — the band is hardly seen either. When The Age visited the shoot, a mob of punters was jogging past the camera, used for just over a second, while most local footage is of a crowd waving arms inside the hotel.
The arms, raised as though watching a band onstage, hide the four members of U2 — lead singer Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen jnr.
Over two nights in November, the band played to 127,275 people at Telstra Dome. Before their second concert, they did a shoot for an IMAX film in a stadium function room; the clip in Richmond was filmed the next day for the new track on their latest album, U218 Singles.
