Heather Colbert's stop-motion animation of Dolly Parton is a "tale of female confidence"
The music video for Mark Nevin's latest track follows singer-songwriter Dolly Parton as she fights Elvis Presley's manager for the rights to her song, I Will Always Love You.
Animated and directed by Heather Colbert, the video accompanies Nevin's Dolly Said No to Elvis track.
It is based on the true story of Parton refusing to let Presley cover her award-winning song, I Will Always Love You ? later made famous by Whitney Houston. The story follows his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, trying to get the songwriter to sign over half of the publishing rights.
"Mark was really passionate about championing this story as a tale of female confidence, and self-belief, as it must have taken so much strength for her to say no to 'The King' at that point in her career," Colbert told Dezeen. Colbert, an animator based in Cambridge, had previously worked with Nevin on another stop-motion music video, Sparks (Edith Piaf Said It Better Than Me).
For the new video, Colbert wanted to make the puppets change size as the video progressed, to represent the shift in power between Parton and the Colonel.
"The idea that the size of the puppets would denote their confidence and control in the situation came from my listening to the track over and over and finding where the shifts in power fell in the narrative of the song," she said.
"Once we had agreed on the metaphor ? using size to denote confidence ? it was very interesting to create these polar opposite characters and ...
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