“and in other news! “ Black Water Gerald Clark’s Black Water music video masterfully executed by Yesterfang Puppetry & Animation Launched at a private screening on Saturday 8 December, the video for Gerald Clark's crooning ballad 'Black Water' has effectively taken the notion the South African public has of locally produced music videos and turned it on its head. Clark worked closely with Marius Joubert and Daneille Jacobs from Yesterfang Puppetry & Animation in Stellenbosch to create a theatrical action/combat scene that showed a progressive fight between two characters in which the undercurrent theme is the chase of desire and vengeance. Says Daneille from Yesterfang about their process: "The video as a whole took ten months to complete and include creation of concept, storyboarding, character development, set design, animating, filming and editing.The project consists of 10 771 photographs taken in sequence to create the illusion of movement. In each photo the characters were manually manipulated no more than 5mm at a time. The video was filmed on a constructed set in the centre of a dam in Trompsburg in the Free State Province, South Africa. The characters were constructed by sculpting realistic figures out of clay and were thereafter moulded in silicone. Each character is intact with a wire armature which serves as an operational skeleton. Additional materials used in finalizing the puppets include dog and horse hair, an old leather wallet, food colouring, fabric and olive oil." With this level of dedication to their craft, the pair succeeded in creating a beautifully moody backdrop against which 'Black Water' really comes into its own. Says Gerald Clark about ‘Black Water’: "Black Water was written a few years ago and never got to the place where it is now. I’ve recorded it twice but it didn’t have what the song needed. I feel I nailed it with this recording. The theme coils around my encounter with a beautiful woman and that moment when I realised how dangerously strong that addiction could be." A better pairing in terms of talent would be hard to find!
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