Music Videos
Destiny's Child "Survivor"
An accompanying music video for “Survivor” was directed by Darren Grant and filmed in various locations throughout Los Angeles County, California on January 27–29, 2001.[13] The clip is styled in the sense of three survivors living on an uninhabited island. It also shows a brief prelude to how the trio got shipwrecked. Following their shipwreck, they uncover an island where they change clothes and walk into a waterfall leading to a deserted temple where it transforms into a dance break. It storms on through the dance bridge and the prelude of the shipwreck. After this, a helicopter starts buzzing leading to where the members are racing out of the island for their escape.[13] External shots in the video were filmed at Point Dume State Beach on the on the coast of Malibu as well as the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia, with the rest of the sequences being filmed at the Los Angeles Center Studios.[19]
The final video premiered on MTV’s making of docu series Making the Video on March 6, 2001.[13] One of Destiny’s Child’s “most difficult videos” to film due to the unseasonal weather conditions in California in late January 2001,[13] the band was reportedly “sick for days” after shooting beach scenes in their skimpy outfits.[20] The “Surivor” music video was later released on DVD with a live performance of “Independent Women Part I” at the 2001 Brit Awards on May 15, 2001. The release was a standard full-frame transfer that preserved the original aspect ratio of the video, with an English soundtrack rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo.[21] It was featured on the DualDisc edition of their greatest hits album #1’s (2005), on the international edition of Survivor (2001) as an enhanced video, on the Walmart-exclusive DVD titled Fan Pack (2004), and on Destiny’s Child Video Anthology (2013). Director Cary Joji Fukunaga got his start in the film industry as a camera production assistant on the video.[22]
Date:
October 1, 2001
Director:
Darren GrantProducer:
Jil Hardin
