Editing 2 Become 1 (section)

==Music video==
===Background===
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The music video for "2 Become 1" was directed on 5–6 November 1996 by Big TV!, in a two-day shoot located at a studio in [[Old Compton Street]], London. Cinematographer Stephen Keith-Roach, who worked in other music videos such as [[Jamiroquai|Jamiroquai's]] "[[Virtual Insanity]]" and [[U2|U2's]] "[[Discothèque (song)|Discothèque]]", was in charge of the photography.<ref name="video" /> The shoot involved the group dressed in winter coats, wandering around the studio against a [[Chroma key|green screen]], interspersed with [[close-up]] [[camera angle]]s, so that the backdrop could be superimposed later.<ref>Brown, 2002. p. 240.</ref><ref>Halliwell, 1999. p. 249.</ref> To achieve the effect of the wind rippling through their hair, the group was required to [[lip sync]]h the song in [[High-speed camera|double time]] while wind machines were blowing on them.<ref name="cripps" />

===Synopsis===
The music video features the group wandering around [[Times Square]] in [[New York City]], with [[Time-lapse photography|fast moving cars appearing around multi-coloured lights]]. They appear in various places around the city, either alone, with one other member, or as a quintet. The video is intercut with scenes of lovers experiencing moments of togetherness and closes with a deer wandering the streets. Such a scene, according to the group's first official book ''Girl Power!'', gave them a running gag all throughout the shoot—"Whenever anyone made a mistake it was, 'Oh, deer'."<ref name="video" /> Sometimes, the closing scene would not be shown on television, due to the song fading out to an instrumental, which lasts for 40 seconds.

In the same book, [[Victoria Beckham]] wrote about the shoot: "I think '2 Become 1' is my favourite video. [...] It was really different to the other videos–shot entirely in the studio, with high technology and loads of effects. It was really weird having to sing passionately into the camera, I was feeling a right mug in front of all those people singing 'wanna make love to ya baby'."<ref name="video" />