Madonna | Bedtime Story The music video for “Bedtime Story” was directed by Mark Romanek over a course of six days in Universal Studios, Universal City, California. At a reputed cost of $5 million, it is one of the most expensive music videos of all time, and the most expensive at the time, with the music video for one of her earlier singles, “Express Yourself”, which was also reported to have cost $5 million. Shot by cinematographer Harris Savides, the video was made on 35 mm film lens. Furthermore, Tom Foden was the video’s production designer. Due to the vast number of digital effects required for the video, post-production lasted for weeks. The video starts off with a blue monitor screen with an eye showing the inscription “Welcome”. The video progresses inside a blue space ship-style room with Madonna lying prostrate in what seems to be a scientific experiment. The imagery cast in this section of the video have drawn comparisons to hermeticism. The video progresses into a sequence of dreams, containing varied surrealistic, mystic, new age, sufi and Egyptian imagery and symbolism. Such include a scene in which Madonna lies on a rotating sunflower, and images of a woman with long hair, an alchemist-type man holding a cube with Madonna’s face on each side as well as rotating sufi dancers. The dream sequence progresses with surreal and unusual clips, including Madonna in a pool with half-shown skulls. A scene in which Madonna, dressed in a light dressing gown, gives birth to doves, can also be seen; the image has been compared to the work of René Magritte, and Frida Kahlo’s 1932 painting My Birth. Suddenly, she floats down a corridor in a white gown, until she appears in a black-and-white projection in a cinema-like room. As the music gets more dramatic, the dream grows intense, with images of skulls and scars appearing, and the singer can be seen wading through space. A scene in which Madonna’s eyes are replaced with her mouth and her mouth with an eye precedes the ending, influenced by the work of Frida Kahlo, in which she wakes up and looks out.

Madonna | Bedtime Story

The music video for “Bedtime Story” was directed by Mark Romanek over a course of six days in Universal Studios, Universal City, California. At a reputed cost of $5 million, it is one of the most expensive music videos of all time, and the most expensive at the time, with the music video for one of her earlier singles, “Express Yourself”, which was also reported to have cost $5 million. Shot by cinematographer Harris Savides, the video was made on 35 mm film lens. Furthermore, Tom Foden was the video’s production designer. Due to the vast number of digital effects required for the video, post-production lasted for weeks.

The video starts off with a blue monitor screen with an eye showing the inscription “Welcome”. The video progresses inside a blue space ship-style room with Madonna lying prostrate in what seems to be a scientific experiment. The imagery cast in this section of the video have drawn comparisons to hermeticism. The video progresses into a sequence of dreams, containing varied surrealistic, mystic, new age, sufi and Egyptian imagery and symbolism. Such include a scene in which Madonna lies on a rotating sunflower, and images of a woman with long hair, an alchemist-type man holding a cube with Madonna’s face on each side as well as rotating sufi dancers. The dream sequence progresses with surreal and unusual clips, including Madonna in a pool with half-shown skulls. A scene in which Madonna, dressed in a light dressing gown, gives birth to doves, can also be seen; the image has been compared to the work of René Magritte, and Frida Kahlo’s 1932 painting My Birth. Suddenly, she floats down a corridor in a white gown, until she appears in a black-and-white projection in a cinema-like room. As the music gets more dramatic, the dream grows intense, with images of skulls and scars appearing, and the singer can be seen wading through space. A scene in which Madonna’s eyes are replaced with her mouth and her mouth with an eye precedes the ending, influenced by the work of Frida Kahlo, in which she wakes up and looks out.

#ILLSTRTD  #Madonna  
∞  02/01/12
9 notes
via illustratedsongs
  1. nowwatchmeburn reblogged this from illustratedsong
  2. madonnalover1994 reblogged this from anovelbyremiel
  3. anovelbyremiel reblogged this from illustratedsong
  4. saltodemulher reblogged this from illustratedsong
  5. illustratedsong posted this