Undone - The Sweater Song: Difference between revisions

The music video for "Undone" was Weezer's first music video. According to ''Rivers' Edge: The Weezer Story'' by John D. Luerssen, the band insisted that the video not have anything to do with a sweater.  Yet Geffen received twenty five treatments for the video, all involving sweaters, including one in which the band played in a sweater factory, and another wherein all four band members were together in one giant sweater.  The video marks one of the early directorial efforts of [[Spike Jonze]], whose pitch was simply "A blue stage, a steadicam, a pack of wild dogs."  The $60,000 video was shot on a steadicam in one unbroken take, featuring the band playing to a sped up version of the song. When played at a slower speed, the illusion is created that the band is playing the song in the correct time, yet moving in slow motion. The one take was shot over twenty five times and the final version is somewhere between shot #15 and shot #20, in which the band had abandoned the idea of taking the video seriously at all. The humor was brought on by the frustration of shooting the same take over and over to a sped up version of the song as well as the fact that one of the dogs defecated on [[Patrick Wilson]]'s bass drum pedal.The video became an instant hit on MTV.