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Day two on the set of Nelly Furtado’s “Night is Young” video was shot primarily during the night outdoors in the Downtown Toronto area. The weather was rain-free, only a bit chilly but with all the extras dancing and biking around the streets, everybody warmed up. Fans and friends came to support Nelly and to be a part of the video during the 2-day shoot. Nelly even took the time to meet and greet with some of her Bestfan’s between scenes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UVTEq00JWs

Here are 3 new promo photos of Nelly! She is looking hot!

And this is what Best Fan said:

Day #1 on the set of Nelly Furtado’s new music video “The Night is Young” off her upcoming album set to be released next month. The first day of shooting consisted of rain and gloom outside, but indoors with Nelly’s great energy it didn’t matter how the weather looked outside. The set with filled with lively spirited fans playing the role of ‘party goers’ and an amazing Nelly Furtado who kept a big smile throughout the whole day.

Source: bestfan.com

Freelance Dancers (Male or Female) open ethnicity:

• Age range 18-25yrs.
• Exuberant, outgoing.
• Great freestyle moves (krumpers/jerkers/daggering etc…)

Freelance Roller-skaters/Roller-bladers (Female only) open ethnicity:

• Aes 18-25
• Female ONLY
• Great Roller skating and/or Rollerblading skills
• Exuberant, outgoing, attractive

Those chosen for this music video will be compensated as an actor approximately:

• $200.00 (Canadian Dollars)

You MUST be available for these key dates:

• AUDITION: Friday October 8th, 2010
• Location: 60 SUMACH ST, 2ND FLOOR

NIGHT SHOOT: WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 13TH AND/OR THURSDAY OCTOBER 14TH

If interested, please e-mail the following to: info@jigsawcasting.com

1. Your name and age
2. Photos of yourself: A headshot and full body shot, no larger than 200 kb
3. Your primary and secondary contact phone numbers (PLEASE WRITE “MUSIC VIDEO” IN THE SUBJECT LINE)
4. A brief description of your dance or Rollerskating/blading experience

For full details check out this page by Dance Umbrella of Onatario.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogHDTOUhmxQ

Zero Assoluto, Italy’s hottest band at the moment, have just released a new version of their hit single ‘Win or Lose’ which features Nelly. Check the video below:

Zero Assoluto feat. Nelly Furtado – Win Or Lose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWRU935FKhE

If you want to discuss/check all comments on the clip, visit our Official Fans Forum, at forum.burninthespotlight.com.

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Oh and to vote for Nellys video go here http://www.mtv.com/onair/trl/vote/ her video is lower down, find it and vote for her!!!

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“Maneater” Music Video

For anyone wondering where the “Maneater” video is, this premieres tomorrow, so I will also have this up as soon as I can, just keep checking back or subcribe to the RSS feed by clicking the little orange icon in the top right of this post.

Nelly Furtado drops in with her world premiere of “Promiscuous” music video! 3/5/06

Source: MTV

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Hello to all the fans!!!!!! Thank you for all your wonderful posts. The excitement and enthusiasm for “Loose” has been overwhelming. The album drops 20th June in North America, (one day before summer begins!), and 12th June outside of North America. I couldn’t be more excited and happy.

The band and I have been rehearsing, and we will be touring North America in July. We also will be playing a slew of festival dates in Europe in June…Watch out for live tv performances up until the release date. I just shot two videos. One for “Promiscuous” and one for “Maneater”. Hope you love it all. Can’t wait to see everybody on tour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love, Nelly

Hello Nelly! From all at BITS and the BITS forum.

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“This new album is like a throw back album for me,” she tells me.After experimenting with Scott Storch and Nellee Hooper in the studio, her label suggested to team up with hip hop prodigy Timbaland for “Loose.” The two had worked previously on the remix of Furtado’s “Turn Off The Light,” which became a huge smash on the hip hop charts a few years back.

After not having seen each other for four years, Furtado travelled to Miami to start working with Timbaland. Furtado describes the instant musical chemistry between them as “voodoo energy.” Check out the first successful teaming between Furtado and Timbaland that features plenty of voodoo-ish energy (and mudslinging!).

Nelly Furtado ft. Timbaland “Turn Off The Light” (Remix)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDWiTBQBkqQ

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Credit: http://www.news.blazeent.com/

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The description is by one of the dancers who features in it, they have a myspace.com page located here.

The video was fun. It rained that day so that really sucked, but the video is supposed to look like it is in a NY underground club. We shot it in downtown LA, she looks so hot in the video. She had a low side pony tail, sounds weird but it was cute on her. She is wearing this top that is made out of necklaces, when you see it it will just look like a cute gold top. But it was hard feeling made out of gold chain necklaces, very cool.

She was sweet and nice. The day I shot there was no rappers there, so half of the video I have no idea what they did, we just did the club scenes. She dances with this white guy, black guy and spanish looking guy.

There is a few main dancers. I’m just dancing in the background but some parts I’m featured right next to her. Other then that I dont know what else to tell you. It was a fun video, hopefully it comes out good.

Here is a pic taken 27/02/06 (click on it to enlarge) of a dancer featured in the vid!

Caption: Courtesy of Copernicus Studios
This is a frame from the new Nelly Furtado video, Explode. The music video is about Furtado reflecting on her secondary school days, based on a poem she wrote as a teenager.

Animating Nelly
Halifax animation company Copernicus, hired to create Furtado’s latest music video

By LAURA GRAHAM

NELLY FURTADO is a world-renowned pop singer. She just finished a world tour of her new album Folklore, the follow-up to her Grammy Award-winning debut, Whoa Nelly.

So how does an animation company from Halifax get to make her next music video?

“I was working on the Universal Soul video,” says Brad Cayford, who directed the local hip-hop act’s latest music video, Back in the Day.

“She saw a lot of artwork that I did for that video and asked me if I’d be interested in doing a video for her. I kind of didn’t want to do one because I haven’t got my feet wet yet.”

At 26, Cayford is a recent graduate from the animation programme at Sheridan College in Ontario.

But he impressed 30-year-old Juan Cruz Baldassarre enough to make him a part of Baldassarre’s small Halifax-based animation company, Copernicus Studios Inc.

Lyrics from Cayford’s favourite Furtado song could sum up the current state of his animation career: “sliding on the rainbows of my childhood dreams.”

“Bradley is undisputedly one of the best animators of his generation,” says Baldassarre, who founded the company one year ago with three other partners.

Cayford went on to impress the folks at MuchMusic, who nominated the Universal Soul video for two MuchMusic Video Awards.

“It was really grand, the timing, because when Brad was in Toronto for the MMVAs . . . Nelly Furtado got best pop video of the year. And right after that, she’s talking with us to do her next video,” says Baldassarre.

Caption: CHRISTIAN LAFORCE

Paul Rigg, Brad Cayford, Juan Cruz Baldassarre, and Andrew Holland of the Halifax-based animation company, Copernicus Studios Inc., hold up an image from the Nelly Furtado video, Explode, which they were hired to create.

The creation of the video for Explode, from concept to final product, took just under four weeks. “We were almost forced to create at the speed of thought,” says Baldassarre.

The video is about Furtado reflecting on her secondary school days, based on a poem she wrote as a teenager.

“She just talks about all the negativity and tries to show that she hasn’t escaped from it,” says Cayford. “In the video she goes to this majestic forest that’s so full of life and that’s her escape. She goes to her treehouse, writes about it and starts writing her music and her music is essentially what’s built her to what she is today.”

Cayford worked one on one with Furtado on a daily basis, over the phone from wherever she was.

“There were even times that she called me when she was shopping, wondering what she should buy for her dress. We were pretty tight the whole way through. Sometimes I feel a bit overwhelmed with these things, but I’m glad there were people like her to bring me back down to earth.”

Cayford also credits the rest of the crew at Copernicus who put in endless hours to complete the project. Company president, Paul Rigg worked as a line producer and technical supervisor. Baldassarre handled post production and editing. The characters were designed by James Walsh and backgrounds were created by Meaghan Smith. Murray Bain did backgrounds and post-production. Jeremy Donovan helped the team with animation.

“I did that shot at six in the morning – that’s how you feel when you look at it,” says Baldassarre, recalling the many all-nighters it took to complete the project.

“I just feel pretty blessed that I have these opportunities to do this. I’ve been wanting to do this for my whole life. The fact that I get to do it, makes for a peaceful walk home. And that’s about as high as I’ll get about it,” says Cayford.

The video is now being shown all over music stations in Europe and it’s just recently been put into heavy rotation on MuchMusic. It can also be seen on Furtado’s website www.nellyfurtado.com.

Baldassarre says it’s a big boost for the small company to get this kind of global exposure. Despite the quality of their work, he says it’s hard to be taken seriously sometimes because of their youth.

“So when you have someone like Nelly Furtado backing you up the way she did, that gives you an instant credibility.”

Baldassarre is taking his company’s credibility and going to MIPCOM (a trade show for the TV industry) today for two weeks to shop Copernicus material.

“It’s the biggest event in the world for television. It’s where all the VPs of programming, development and CEOs of the largest corporations on the planet involved with television go to Cannes to come back with a good chunk of their programming,” says Baldassarre.

Baldassarre says it’s the use of technology and the Internet that can make Nova Scotia a leading market for animation.

“Brad was on the phone talking to Nelly when she was in Germany or Toronto or Portugal, defining things over the phone and then sending stills over the Internet. When everything was animated, you could compress it and send it to her.

“With technology, you have that capability. Now the question is, once all the gadgets are gone, do you have the talent? Can you make something that’s entertaining and fun? I think that’s why right now it makes sense for us to be in Nova Scotia,” says Baldassarre, who came to the province four years ago from Argentina.

Animation is serious business for this group, but their love for the art is obvious.

“The one thing to me that makes animation special is that not one thing you see on the screen – particularly the characters that you connect with – none of them exist,” says Baldassarre.

“It’s always somebody’s imagination being drawn. This is my interpretation of what Nelly Furtado would look like. This is how I would draw her. Frame by frame, everything that you see has been put there by somebody’s imagination.”

Keep an eye out for Copernicus’s future projects on YTV and check out their website at www.copernicus.ca.

Laura Graham is a freelance journalist living in Halifax.

Source: The Halifax Herald Limited

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