Her Morning Elegance - Oren Lavie.

Her Morning Elegance.

Oran Lavie was born in 1976 and is an Israeli singer, songwriter, playwright and theater director. His music video for "Her Morning Elegance" earned a 2009 Grammy Award nomination for Best Short Form Music Video. He likes to create dreamy visuals from realistic elements, he enjoys squeezing big worlds into small spaces. Her Morning Elegance was all shot in stills, roughly 3225 still photos for the entire video, using one camera and hanging from the ceiling for the main body of the movie. It took four weeks before shooting to create an animated computer generated story board for the video, with 3D dummies for the characters. It took only two days of shooting for the live actors on set to re create the 3.5 minute computer sequence, frame by frame. Some of the bed sheets used in the video were taken from Oren's own bedroom and are now considered collector's items, worth at the moment not very much and therefore used as bed sheets.

Her Morning Elegance is a music video created by Oran Lavie, in which a restless woman attempts to sleep while a camera is fixed in position above films her every move. The carefully crafted stop motion music video  has the black and white linen of the bed acting as a canvas for the model's movements as she dreams. At one point she uses the pillows as stepping stones, a pair of trousers start dancing with her and then Oran Lavie appears next to her, all of this of course created by the stop motion technique which created these lovely effects. I thought the setting/location for this piece was very good and I couldn't think of any other location to fit so perfectly with the story. In a bedroom, on a mattress and a girl dreaming. What else could fit with that? The animation uses great use of color, texture and lighting for example when the woman tries to drift off to sleep it is light and then when she starts falling asleep and dreaming it is night, also another example is the black and white linen bed sheets which are used to create the effect of a canvas for the model. The soundtrack for the animation is of course appropriate as it is one of the creator's own songs which flows with the whole concept of the animation. There is only one camera angle used throughout the entire animation and that is where it is angled from above so it is looking down on her dreaming, capturing her every movement.

Her Morning Elegance - Oren Lavie.