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Chocolate Box

Music Video details First aired: 24 March 2009 Producer(s): Sean Deveaux Director: P.R. Brown Related home video/DVD: First (Commercially) Released: Awards Date Institution, Country Award This music video has not received any awards in the USA

Chocolate Box is a Prince video released through his Lotusflow3r.com website (on the same day as Crimson And Clover and Bria Valente’s Everytime). The video, filmed at the Source Studio in Los Angeles, California in early February 2009, was premiered on 24 March 2009, the same day as the launch of Prince’s website: Lotusflow3r.com. The video was streamed on the website in the MPLSound section, a futuristic scene showing a sonic blue Fender Stratocaster guitar backed by skyscrapers (one having the form of a synthesizer) in-between which a zeppelin could be seen hovering in purple skies a-lit with flashes of lightening. A click on the zeppelin granted access to the Chocolate Box video. The video takes place at night and shows Prince singing on a large screens set on top of a series of skyscrapers and a futuristic all mechanic zeppelin, borrowing similarities with a bigger feature in "Blade Runner" movie. The pitch features a male dressed in black (inside of his coat is purple) chasing a female also dressed in black (inside of coat is red); they jump from one building top to another in a "Matrix" movie like fashion. After the male almost fails a jump, both get rid of their coats and bump into each other in a defying manner. In a flash a purple crystal ball appears, embedding Prince’s face in it. Both have been "teleported" into Lotusflow3r.com website, and now challenge each other in a "capoeira" style dance. In the end the female grabs the male necklace and they seem to unite, holding each others hand. Shooting Information Shooting Sessions Date Location Additional info 5 February 2009 Source Studio, Los Angeles, CA, USA Cast Prince Lala Escarzega Q-Tip Crew P.R. Brown - director David DeFino - lighting Chris Do - creative director Ben Morris - executive producer Sean Deveaux - producer Jonathan Kim - design & art director Matt Collarafice - design, compositor & art director Takashi Takeoka - design, compositor & art director Jon Gutman - lead 3D direction & design David Do - compositors Thomas Yamaoka - matte paintings Martin Jung - 3D animation & compositor Omar Gatica - 3D animation Ian Rufuss - 3D animation Alex Ceglia - 3D animation Billy Maloney - 3D animation Versions Broadcasts/streaming (only) Title Length Released Version Additional info Chocolate Box 4:15 Lotusflow3r.com Prince YouTube channel (2018) Official video

Additional Information See Also Quotation & triva Chocolate Box Lotusflow3r.com website Although Prince has released an album in 2010 (20Ten) between Lotusflow3r/MPLSound (2009) and Rock And Roll Love Affair (2012), there were no videos created or used as a promotional tool for this record (the rumoured animated-video of Walk In Sand is actually fan-made and unofficial). A commercial was created using Prince’s performance of Laydown on 13 April 2011 at Lopez Tonight intertwined with basketball players to promote both the NBA playoffs on TNT and the 21 Nite Stand, but it is not considered as a video for the song. References

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