Editing Duran Duran (section)

==Videos==
The [[MTV]] cable channel and the band were launched around the same time, and each had a hand in propelling the other to greater heights.{{sfn|Denisoff|1986|p=365: "Duran Duran became multimedia stars because MTV, to paraphrase bassist John Taylor, could not get videos of 'Stairway to Heaven'"}} MTV needed showcase videos with charismatic performers. [[Les Garland]], senior executive vice-president at MTV, said "I remember our director of talent and artist relations came running in and said, "You have got to see this video that's come in". Duran Duran were getting zero radio airplay at the time, and MTV wanted to try to break new music. "Hungry Like the Wolf" was the greatest video I'd ever seen".<ref name=Blender/> The band's video work was influential in several ways. First, Duran Duran filmed in exotic locales like [[Sri Lanka]] and [[Antigua]], creating memorable images that were radically different from the then-common low budget "band-playing-on-a-stage" videos. Second, rather than simply playing their instruments, the band participated in mini-storylines (often taking inspiration from contemporary movies: "Hungry Like the Wolf" riffs on 1981's ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', "The Wild Boys" on 1981's ''[[Mad Max 2]]''), etc. While videos were already headed in this direction, Duran Duran led the trend with a style, featuring quick editing, arresting graphic design, and surreal-to-nonsensical image inserts, that drew attention from commentators and spawned a wealth of imitators.

Duran Duran were among the first bands to have their videos shot with a professional movie camera on 35mm film, rather than on videotape, making them look superior to many of the quickly shot videos which had been MTV staples until then. MTV provided Duran Duran with access to American radio markets that were unfriendly to British music, new wave music, or "anything with synthesisers". Because MTV was not available everywhere in the United States at first, it was easy to see a pattern: where MTV went, listener demand for Duran Duran, [[Tears for Fears]], [[Def Leppard]] and other European bands with interesting videos went through the roof.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/musictelevis/musictelevis.htm |title=Music Television |access-date=17 May 2007 |author=Burns, Gary |publisher=The Museum of Broadcast Communications |archive-date=31 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070531225420/http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/musictelevis/musictelevis.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The band's sun-drenched videos for "Rio", "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Save a Prayer", and the surreal "Is There Something I Should Know?" were filmed by future movie director [[Russell Mulcahy]], who made eleven videos for the band. Duran Duran have always sought out innovative directors and techniques, even in their later years when MTV gave them little airplay. In addition to Mulcahy, they have had videos filmed by influential photographers [[Dean Chamberlain]] and [[Ellen von Unwerth]], Chinese director [[Chen Kaige]], documentary filmmaker [[Julien Temple]], and the [[Polish Brothers]], among others. According to Rhodes, "Video is to us like stereo was to [[Pink Floyd]]."{{sfn|Denisoff|1986|p=364}}

{{Blockquote|"The British won out here, hands down. Next to the prosaic, foursquare appearance of the American bands, such acts as Duran Duran seemed like caviar. MTV opened up a whole new world that could not be fully apprehended over the radio. The visual angle played to the arty conceits of Britain's young style barons, suggesting something more exotic than the viewer was likely to find in the old hometown. The big Duran Duran hits, "[[Girls on Film]]" and "[[Hungry Like the Wolf]]", were MTV favorites three months before radio began to pick up on them. And via MTV, Duran Duran and their like have engendered an outpouring of good old-fashioned hysteria among teenage girls."|source="Anglomania: The [[Second British Invasion]]", by Parke Puterbaugh for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', November 1983.<ref name=RS/>}}

In 1984, Duran Duran introduced video technology into their live stadium shows by being among the first acts to provide video screens above the stage.<ref name="DD Videos">{{cite news|title=50 things you may not know about Duran Duran|url=http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/50-things-you-may-not-know-235647|work=Birmingham Mail|date=13 September 2016|access-date=13 September 2016|archive-date=20 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920053436/http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/50-things-you-may-not-know-235647|url-status=live}}</ref> They have recorded concerts using [[IMAX]] and 360-degree panoramic "immersive video" cameras, with 10.2 channel audio. In 2000, they experimented with augmented reality technology, which allowed three-dimensional computer-generated images to appear on stage with the band.<ref name=DD.com>{{cite web|url=http://www.duranduran.com/bio.html |title=Official bio |publisher=duranduran.com |access-date=14 May 2007 |date=October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070620024925/http://www.duranduran.com/bio.html |archive-date=20 June 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> They appeared on several century-end video countdowns: The MTV "100 Greatest Videos Ever Made" featured "Hungry Like the Wolf" at No.&nbsp;11 and "Girls on Film" at No.&nbsp;68, and the "VH1: 100 Greatest Videos" listed "Hungry" at No.&nbsp;31 and "Rio" at No.&nbsp;60. MTV named "Hungry" the 15th of their most played videos of all time.

The band has released several video compilations, starting with the self-titled "video album" ''[[Duran Duran (1983 video)|Duran Duran]]'' (1983), for which they won a [[Grammy Award]], up to the 2004 two-disc DVD release ''[[Greatest (Duran Duran)#DVD|Greatest]]'', which included alternative versions of several popular videos as [[Easter egg (virtual)|Easter eggs]]. In addition to ''Greatest'', the documentary ''[[Sing Blue Silver]]'', and the concert film ''[[Arena (An Absurd Notion)|Arena]]'' (both from 1984) were released on DVD in 2004. ''[[Live from London (Duran Duran)|Live from London]]'', a concert video from one of their sold-out 2004 reunion shows at Wembley Arena, was released in the fall of 2005.

Other video collections, concert films, and documentaries remain available only on videotape, and Duran Duran have not yet released a collection which includes all their videos. The band has said that a huge amount of unreleased concert and documentary footage has been filmed over the years, which they hope can be edited and released in some form in the near future. The video for "Falling Down" was released in October 2007. The Nick Egan-directed video for the lead single and title track from ''All You Need Is Now'' was premiered via Yahoo Music on 20 December 2010. The second video from ''[[All You Need Is Now]]'', "Girl Panic", was released on 8 November 2011. It features some of the world's most famous supermodels, such as [[Yasmin Le Bon]], [[Cindy Crawford]], [[Naomi Campbell]], [[Eva Herzigová]] and [[Helena Christensen]], playing the band. The video was directed by [[Jonas Akerlund]], and during the filming, an editorial was made for ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'' magazine.