El Mañana (Video)

This page features information regarding the music video for "El Mañana".

Synopsis
Noodle is floating along peacefully in the sunshine on her floating island. Suddenly the peaceful calm is shattered when two attack helicopters appear and start shooting at her with machine guns. Noodle takes refuge in the windmill. The helicopters fire at the windmill and damage it. Later Noodle comes out of the windmill to look around, and sees that the once beautiful sky has turned completely cloudy and dark, but the helicopters see her and attack again, and she is forced back inside the windmill. eventualy the island is so damaged that it cannot float anymore and starts to fall to the earth. It crashes on the ground and one of the helicopters drops a bomb on it.

Background
During Gorillaz Demon Detour they were constantly under attack but none of the band members was aware of who it was. The band ultimately decided on it being past Gorillaz antagonist or 2-D’s ex-girlfriend Paula Cracker. During this time the band got a new label stateside, Jimmy Manson. Jimmy first auditioned for guitar at the start of Gorillaz but was turned down by Murdoc when Noodle got the job as guitarist. After Murdoc found out it was Jimmy Manson attacking the band he put a plan in action with the help of Manson. They both agreed to kill off Gorillaz and cash in on there success, Murdoc’s idea was to use the Flying Windmill Island from the Feel Good Inc Video and to have Noodle go on it during the video for El Mañana. The plan was Murdoc to stash guns in the windmill tower and for Jimmy to shoot the guitarist out of the sky while he parachutes off. With this plan in place Murdoc told the other members of Gorillaz who seemed skeptic at first but eventually agreed. During the video Noodle and the windmill island blow up in the video and after director Jamie Hewlett shouts cut the medical team rush to find and see if Noodle was okay, but she was nowhere to be seen. After Noodles apparent death everything collapsed. Gorillaz HQ Kong Studios had started to collapse, followed with 2D and Russel leaving the band. Everyone was shocked until the release of Rise of the Ogre where the truth was revealed. The truth was that Murdoc locked Jimmy in the windmill with no guns for him to shoot with, while Noodle parachuted off in time. Jimmy Manson died during the Windmill crash. The only question Murdoc didn’t know the answer to was who the helicopters were in the video. It would transpire that Murdoc originally wanted the helicopters from the Feel Good Inc Video to fire fake bullets. But a bunch of helicopters showed up out of nowhere and started shooting and left the crash and went off, nobody knows where. It transpires that it was the Black Cloud and after the Black Cloud left from the set the helicopters from the Feel Good Inc Video showed up to the set and said they had been caught up in bad weather.

Availability

 * Available on the DVD format of the ' El Mañana ' single.
 * Available on the Phase 2 DVD 'Slowboat To Hades '.
 * Available on the DVD edition of, ' The Singles Collection 2001-2011 '.

Credits

 * Record Company: Parlophone
 * Artist Management: CMO
 * Production Company: Passion Pictures
 * Directors: Jamie Hewlett/Pete Candeland
 * Executive Producer: Andrew Ruhemann
 * Producers: Emilie Walmsley/Cara Speller
 * 2D Animation: Robert Valley, Heath Kenny, Rikke Asbjorn
 * Key Assistant to Director: David Burns
 * Animation Assistants: Miles Peters, Brent Odell, Jonathan Wren, Gail Walton, Richard Wake, Gerry Gallego, Rachel Glodowski
 * FX Animators: Simon Swales, Barney Russell
 * FX Assistants: Mikolaj Watt, Sky Bone, Jane Wright, Katerina Kremasioti, Monica Brufton
 * Toonz: Phil Holder, Tim King, Megs White Dore
 * Art Direction: Daniel Cacouault
 * Matte Painter: Christobal de Oliveira
 * Creative Assistant: Paul Cheshire
 * Technician: Tony Clarke
 * 2D Co-ordination: Jen Nunn, David Burns
 * CG Animation: Wesley Coman
 * CG Supervisors: Chris Hemming, Antoine Moulineau
 * CG Modellers: Stuart Rowbottom, Adam Sharp, David Usher
 * CG Lighting: Adam Sharp
 * CG Effects: Lukasz Pazera
 * Senior Compositor: Johnny
 * Still Compositing: Niamh Lines, Cassiano Prado, Ed Salkeld
 * Technical Director: Mark Wilson
 * 3D Co-ordination: Emma Philips
 * DoP (live action shots) Richard Stewart
 * Camera Operator: Richard Stewart
 * Producer (live action) Russell McLean
 * Make Up: Cecile Nonon
 * Editor: Jamie Foord
 * Post Production: Rushes
 * VFX Artists: Duncan Malcolm, Marcus Wood, Brian Carbin
 * Rushes Producer: Carl Grinter

Additional Information
The video is a continuation of themes in the ' Feel Good Inc ' video. The floating island and the menacing helicopters both return.

Noodle supposedly parachuted off of the island as it was descending towards the ground.