Music Video
The original music video for "Daylight in Your Eyes" was directed and produced by Robert Bröllochs for Camelot Filmproduktionen and entirely filmed at the X-Sight-Studios in Groß-Gerau near Darmstadt, Hesse on December 22, 2000. Popstars coach Detlef Soost with whom the band had worked during the casting process, handled the video's choreography. Shot in a time span of twenty-one hours, it is primarily composed of individual close shots and dance sequences using split screen and bluescreen technique.
The video does not have a substantial plot, but as both the band's management and their label attempted to introduce aliases assigning each member of the group — similar to the Spice Girls pseudonyms — in due consideration of the polysemous title of the band's debut album, Elle'ments, focus is on the personalization of the classical elements. While Nadja Benaissa ("Air"), Lucy Diakovska ("Fire"), Sandy Mölling ("Water"), and Vanessa Petruo ("Earth") incorporated one of the four archetypal type images for each themselves, a fifth element ("Spirit") was specially-created for Jessica Wahls because of a lack of another element. The band later dismissed the video for its styling and make-up, both of which was widely influenced by the element theme and, according to Benaissa, made them look like a group of "five casted whores".
The final video cut for "Daylight in Your Eyes" premiered in January 2001 at the end of its Making of—episode on the first installment of Popstars. As the original music video was considered "too sexy" for broadcast on the North American television market, an alternate version for the song was shot by Stephen Scott in Toronto, Canada in April 2001. Set in a park, it abandons the elements topic of the original video in favor of performance and dancing routines.
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