Dave Stewart ft. Orianthi - Girl in a Catsuit
Dave Stewart ft. Orianthi - Girl in a Catsuit
Music Video
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2013
Dave Stewart ft. Orianthi - Girl in a Catsuit
Music Video
Role
Director
//
Editor
//
VFX
//
Color
Year
2013
*Girl in a Catsuit* is a wild, unapologetic rock-and-roll fever dream set inside a hotel room that's clearly seen better days. What starts as the aftermath of an all-night party quickly escalates when a mysterious woman in a catsuit climbs the outside of the building and crashes the scene, reigniting the chaos. As the party spirals further out of control, the room fills with an increasingly absurd cast of characters—hungover revelers, pole dancers, fighting midgets, attack dogs, and a growing police presence determined to shut everything down. The line between reality and madness quickly disappears as the celebration reaches its breaking point. What follows is a chain reaction of escalating mayhem, culminating in mass arrests, total destruction, and one very unfortunate microwave. Equal parts rock video, comedy, and controlled chaos, *Girl in a Catsuit* embraces the spirit of excess with a tongue-in-cheek sense of humor and a commitment to being bigger, louder, and more outrageous with every passing minute.

The concept centered around a mysterious woman in a catsuit scaling the exterior of a hotel while chaos unfolded inside, blending rock-and-roll excess with an increasingly absurd chain of events.

One of the most ambitious sequences involved filming Orianthi on a wire rig against green screen and compositing her onto the side of the former Redbury Hotel in Hollywood. Because the performance had to feel as though she was genuinely climbing the building, the process required careful planning during production and extensive visual effects work in post. Every shot needed to balance realism with the heightened, comic-book energy of the video, from camera movement and perspective to integrating her performance seamlessly into the environment.

As the editor, my focus was on escalating the chaos. The video constantly builds upon itself, introducing new characters, visual gags, and increasingly outrageous situations—from hungover partygoers and police raids to attack dogs and an accidentally armed microwave bomb. The challenge was maintaining clarity while continually raising the stakes, making sure each beat topped the last without losing the audience along the way.

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