The "one-shot" video stitched from five or six takes

A one-shot video is a promise to the viewer, and post is where the promise is kept. Arsenii Pronkin at the London house Anchous worked on Olivia Dean's videos, directed by Jake Erland, and describes the actual problem:

Overall, the biggest challenge was maintaining the organic, non-artificial feeling of a true one-shot music video – keeping the illusion that everything was captured fully in-camera.

The mechanics:

Matching motion between the two takes was tricky, and in the moments where that wasn't possible, we had to stitch together transitions from five or six different shots while still making the final piece feel completely seamless.

And the unglamorous part that eats the schedule:

But tracking a 40–50 second shot and then blending it into another 30-40 second shot is still no joke.

A forty-second continuous shot had every lightning flare replaced. Tracking over that duration is the hard bit: small errors accumulate, and a track that drifts by two pixels at second five is unusable by second forty.

Tracks involved: "Lady Lady", "Man I Need" and "So Easy (To Fall In Love)".