Difference between revisions of "Video: Chocolate Box"
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|producer(s) = [[Prince]] (assumed) | |producer(s) = [[Prince]] (assumed) | ||
|Director = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._R._Brown P.R. Brown] | |Director = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._R._Brown P.R. Brown] | ||
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| − | |Introduction = '''Chocolate Box''' is | + | |Introduction = '''Chocolate Box''' is a [[Prince]] video released through his [[Lotusflow3r.com]] website (on the same day as [[Video: Crimson And Clover|Crimson And Clover]]). |
| − | The video 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 [[Album: MPLSound|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, filmed at the Source Studio in Los Angeles, California in early February 2009, was premiered on [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/March_24|24 March 2009]], the same day as the launch of [[Prince]]'s website: [[Lotusflow3r.com]]. The video was streamed on the website in the [[Album: MPLSound|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. | 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. | ||
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| − | |date = | + | |date = [[Prince_Vault:Selected_anniversaries/February_5|5 February 2009]] |
|studio = Source Studio Los Angeles, CA, USA | |studio = Source Studio Los Angeles, CA, USA | ||
|additional info = | |additional info = | ||
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| − | |cast = * [[Prince]] | + | |cast = * [[Prince]] |
| − | * [[Lala Escarzega]] | + | * [[Lala Escarzega]] |
| − | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-Tip_(musician) Q-Tip] | + | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-Tip_(musician) Q-Tip] |
| − | |crew = * P.R. Brown - director | + | |crew = * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._R._Brown P.R. Brown] - director |
| − | * David DeFino - | + | * David DeFino - lighting |
| + | * ''More information needed'' | ||
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|see also = [[Chocolate Box]] | |see also = [[Chocolate Box]] | ||
| − | |Quotations & trivia = | + | * [[Lotusflow3r.com]] website |
| + | * [[Album: MPLSound|MPLSound]] album | ||
| + | |Quotations & trivia = Although [[Prince]] has released an album in 2010 ([[Album: 20Ten|20Ten]]) between [[Album: Lotusflow3r|Lotusflow3r]]/[[Album: MPLSound|MPLSound]] (2009) and [[Single: Rock And Roll Love Affair|Rock And Roll Love Affair]] (2012), there were no video created or used as a promotional tool for this record (the rumoured animated-video of [[Walk In Sand]] is a actually fan-made and unofficial). A commercial was created using [[Prince]]'s performance of [[Lay Down]] on [[13_April_2011-m|13 April 2011 at Lopez Tonight]] intertwined with basketball players to promote both the NBA playoffs on TNT and the [[Welcome_2_America_Tour|21 Nite Stand]], but it is not considered as a video for the song. | ||
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