Canvas (song)

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"Canvas"
Song by Imogen Heap
from the album Ellipse
Released17 July 2009
Genre Electronica
Length4:52
Label Megaphonic Records
Songwriter(s) Imogen Heap
Producer(s) Imogen Heap
Music video
"Canvas" on YouTube

"Canvas" is a song by British singer/songwriter Imogen Heap from her album Ellipse .

Contents

Premiere

The music video for "Canvas" premiered on MSN Video on 17 July 2009. [1] It was also made available for download in exchange for one tweet five days later on 22 July on Imogen Heap's Twitter. [2]

Release

"Canvas" was meant to be released only as a music video and never as a single. It was also never released on TV. Heap stated it would be a treat for her fans who waited so long for new material. [3]

Music video

A scene from 'Canvas' video. Imogenheapcanvasvideo.png
A scene from 'Canvas' video.

The idea for a music video for "Canvas" formed back in February 2009. Heap asked her fans on Twitter if they could suggest a place where hills, snow, and sea meet together and stated it's for a "Canvas" video. [4] The video was directed by Tom Kelly and filmed in Bonavista, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. [5] It portrays a man walking through woods, snowy landscapes, and hills carrying an easel with a black canvas put on it. At the end of the video he ends up on a mountaintop where he lays down the easel and looks ahead. The shooting began in the first week of April 2009. [6] Post-production lasted longer than expected.[ citation needed ]

Notes

  1. "Imogen Heap - Canvas - MSN Video". Archived from the original on 20 July 2009. Retrieved 22 August 2009.
  2. Imogen Heap [@imogenheap] (17 July 2009). "I'm going to go one better and you can have a HQ download of #canvas on Tuesday @JoshLaForet. Hang tight until then x" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  3. Imogen Heap [@imogenheap] (15 May 2009). "Canvas will be the first thing I let out of here @ademtce. Will be within the month I hope. Not a "single" as such... more a little treat x" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  4. "Twitter / Tomokelly: @KTWTD Thanks.. Mostly fil". twitter.com. Archived from the original on 15 July 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
  5. Imogen Heap [@imogenheap] (31 March 2009). "lots of interest in the soup there! it's a homemade veggie soup Tom (he lives/works he for me) made me b4 he left to shoot Canvas video" (Tweet) via Twitter.

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