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  • LeAnn Rimes Filmed Music Video On iPhone

    LeAnn Rimes may have come up with the coolest music video ever! When she teamed up with Rob Thomas and Jeff Beck for her latest single Gasoline and Matches, the team came up with a new inventive idea for shooting her music video…simply use iPhones and a Vine account.

    The music video was directed and filmed by Ian Padgham, and produced by Darrell Brown. The video features stop motion scenes that were made using over 8,000 still pictures that were pieced together.

    “Darrell turned me onto Ian’s Vine account, and I’d never seen anything like it,” Rimes told The Hollywood Reporter. “I was shocked that nobody had done a (music) video like that before, and I jumped at the chance to do it. My part in it took 20 or 30 minutes at the most. Ian flew to Dublin, where I was on tour, and put two iPhones up and filmed me doing two passes of the song, along with a few odd things like ‘Reach for a star’ or ‘Pretend you’re falling.’ ”

    Gasoline and Matches is the latest single off of her new album, Spitfire, which is the last album she will make with the Curb label after nearly 20 years. “This is one of those crazy transitions for me, because I’m out of my deal next week,” said Rimes. “I had never in my life made a record like this … where basically the whole album was just a creative passion project. If the single clicks somehow with radio, it would be great, but if not, it was totally fun to have a great piece of work in this video we dreamt up and continue to work with really cool people.”

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  • LeAnn Rimes Discusses Using iPhones to Film Video

    LeAnn Rimes has received extra attention this holiday season, (and, no, it’s not because of a feud) which is partly from the creative and rather unusual means used to record her Gasoline and Matches music video. Animator Ian Padgham was involved in the video that used iPhones and the easily-accessible Vine application. When questioned about the technique needed to make such a video Padgham said, “Patience definitely is up there.”

    In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Rimes said, “Darrell turned me onto Ian’s Vine account, and I’d never seen anything like it. I was shocked that nobody had done a video like that before, and I jumped at the chance to do it. My part in it took 20 or 30 minutes at the most. Ian flew to Dublin, where I was on tour, and put two iPhones up and filmed me doing two passes of the song, along with a few odd things like Reach for a star or Pretend you’re falling. ”

    The video shows a more creative side to the singer, who enjoyed the process of creating the album. “This is one of those crazy transitions for me, because I’m out of my deal next week. I had never in my life made a record like this, where basically the whole album [Spitfire] was just a creative passion project. If the single clicks somehow with radio, it would be great, but if not, it was totally fun to have a great piece of work in this video we dreamt up and continue to work with really cool people,” Rimes said.

    LeAnn Rimes has a reputation for breaking innovation barriers with her music videos, but recent news has also touched on her interest in picking the perfect Christmas present. In a recent interview with E! Online, Rimes detailed some of her favorite gifts to give such as a luxe Laura Mercier bath set, Jonathan Adler Unicorn Salt & Pepper Shakers, as well as popular gaming systems (PlayStation 4 and Xbox One – of course) just in time for Christmas.

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  • LeAnn Rimes’ Shoots ‘Gasoline and Matches’ Video with iPhones

    Grammy award-winning singer LeAnn Rimes has definitely proved that simplicity can be one of the most idealistic forms of creativity. Her latest music video, ‘Gasoline and Matches’ didn’t require the use of studios, film locations, or camera crews because she simply used an iPhone.

    With the use of the ever-popular Vine mobile application, Rimes was able to shoot the entire video using only iPhones. The ‘Blue Moon’ singer collaborated with animator, Ian Padgham and producer Darrell Brown to create the video.

    According to UPI, ‘Gasoline and Matches’ features a series of ‘stop-motion scenes,’ which are comprised of more than 8,000 sequenced still images. The series of still images were later edited to create a stitched affect so the video would flow accordingly.

    Rimes recently spoke with Hollywood Reporter with details on how the video concept came about. She also went into detail explaining how two iPhones were used to put the video together.

    “Darrell turned me onto Ian’s Vine account, and I’d never seen anything like it,” Rimes told Hollywood Reporter. “I was shocked that nobody had done a (music) video like that before, and I jumped at the chance to do it. My part in it took 20 or 30 minutes at the most. Ian flew to Dublin, where I was on tour, and put two iPhones up and filmed me doing two passes of the song, along with a few odd things like ‘Reach for a star’ or ‘Pretend you’re falling.’”

    Padgham was also asked of his secret to success in methodically structuring a music video with such an astronomical number of pictures. “Patience definitely is up there,” Padgham quipped.

    “It’s all very basic and rudimentary,” he added. “There are certainly plenty of applications like Vine that are free that people could use to just do the same thing, shot by shot. It takes a lot of work and thought, but anyone can get a phone or camera and start making their own similar things. I hope it inspires people to do their own stuff. You don’t need a lot of special tools, and it’s getting back to that very simple, very handmade way of producing art.”

    ‘Gasoline and Matches’ is the fourth single from Rimes’ Spitfire album, which was released Apr. 26. The song, which features rock guitar legend Jeff Beck, and Matchbox Twenty lead singer Rob Thomas, was written by country singer-songwriter Buddy Miller and his wife, Julie.

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  • LeAnn Rimes On Her iPhone-Shot Stop Motion Video

    LeAnn Rimes teamed up with Rob Thomas (of Matchbox Twenty) for her song “Gasoline and Matches”, a fun, twangy, roadhouse-type song that invokes images of line-dancing in a honky tonk. But the video is completely unexpected, in a really good way.

    When Rimes heard about animator and former Twitter employee Ian Padgham’s amazing Vine account–which was full of his stop-motion animations–she immediately wanted to collaborate with him. The result is a five-minute video shot with two iPhones and full of the six-second shots that Vine is full of.

    “Darrell (Brown, Rimes’ producer) turned me onto Ian’s Vine account, and I’d never seen anything like it,” Rimes said. “I was shocked that nobody had done a (music) video like that before, and I jumped at the chance to do it. My part in it took 20 or 30 minutes at the most. Ian flew to Dublin, where I was on tour, and put two iPhones up and filmed me doing two passes of the song, along with a few odd things like ‘Reach for a star’ or ‘Pretend you’re falling.’”

    Padgham says the project–though time consuming–was relatively easy with the use of Vine, and he hopes more creative people will jump on board.

    “It’s all very basic and rudimentary,” Padgham said. “There are certainly plenty of applications like Vine that are free that people could use to just do the same thing, shot by shot. It takes a lot of work and thought, but anyone can get a phone or camera and start making their own similar things. I hope it inspires people to do their own stuff. You don’t need a lot of special tools, and it’s getting back to that very simple, very handmade way of producing art.”

    Check out the video for “Gasoline and Matches”, which was co-written by “Nashville” music supervisor Buddy Miller.

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