Chvrches and Robert Smith channel film noir imagery for their new collaborative video for 'How Not to Drown'
and this video is the second installment in a connected trilogy,” Chvrches lead singer Lauren Mayberry explains. The video builds off of the surreal, film noir-inspired imagery from “He Said She Said,” now with the addition ofScreen Violence
concept, because we didn’t want it to be Eighties or Seventies horror pastiche we can relate,” Mayberry adds. “How do we extrapolate that into other spaces? And he definitely got all the cool references we were going for. He’s just like, ‘I’ve never made a music video. What’s the end product you’d like?’…This is the first time we’ve made a music video where his mock-ups look exactly like what we planned.
Due to the lockdown, the members of Chvrches and Smith filmed their parts remotely, with Smith shooting the takes himself at home in front of a greenscreen. “I just made the occasional hand movements in front of the camera,” Smith says of his filming process. “It’s awkward, but you get past it by telling people from an early age that you can’t dance.
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