Feb 28, 2020

Behind the Scenes of Lady Gaga's 'Stupid Love'

Behind the Scenes of Lady Gaga's 'Stupid Love'

The official music video of Lady Gaga's new song 'Stupid Love' was released on February 28th at midnight and was shot in it's entirely using only an iPhone 11 Pro. Director Daniel Askill was recently interviewed by Jared Eng of JustJared about the process and more.

Askill said: ''Obviously shooting on iPhone is new territory and as a filmmaker, it’s kind of an unexpected thing to do because there’s a pretty standardized way to make music videos, television commercials and films, on bigger, much more expensive cameras. We had a blast shooting on iPhone 11 Pro. It creates a lot of new possibilities and freedoms for us to explore.'' 
We put the phones on a professional Steadicam and a professional scale drone, It was an interesting cross over in that respect between using the phones in a very true world way in terms of the capture technology but plugging them into the kind of apparatus of a much larger scale shoot.'' he added.

We used all three of the rear cameras but we were mainly alternating between Wide and Telephoto, and running two frame rates at the same time. We were shooting everything at 4K for almost all of the takes and would have one camera at 24fps with a second camera sitting right underneath the main camera at 48fps for a bit of slow-mo. We wouldn’t have been able to do this if we were running a single camera shoot on an Alexa.

Daniel has directed Sia's 'Alive', 'Chandelier,' Elastic Heart' and promo campaigns for Dior, Apple and many more. Take a look at the official behind the scenes video and HQ photos on the set below. 'Stupid Love' is still located in the first spot on iTunes worldwide since it was released just 2 days ago.