History Main / OnASoundStageAllAlong

* Austra's "[[https://youtu.be/LrNhR8WKuZ8 I Am Not Waiting]]" alternates between a psychedelic woman stripping down while walking through town, and singer Katie Stelmanis's disembodied head on a Greek column. At the end, the former is revealed as dancer Sheida Arbabian in a chroma-keyed zentai suit, while the latter finishes the song against a Green screen backdrop.

* Austra's "[[https://youtu.be/LrNhR8WKuZ8 I Am Not Waiting]]" alternates between a psychedelic woman stripping down while walking through town, and singer Katie Stelmanis's disembodied head on a Greek column. At the end, the former is revealed as dancer Sheida Arbabian in a chroma-keyed zentai suit, while the latter finishes the song in front of a green screen.

* In {{Switchfoot}}'s very first music video, "Chem 6A", the guys take a break from filming the video to walk off the set, peruse craft services, and get into a food fight.

** This same premise was used in Staind's [[LimpBizkit Fred Durst]]-directed clip for "Just Go".

* The end of "[[http://youtu.be/Mf5YSrfj2Ns Eddie Vedder]]" by Local H does this, in contrast to the beginning of the video which starts with the band onstage and working their way toward backstage, making it a mild MindScrew.

If the song you're making a video for ends with a dramatic fade of the instruments and you want a suitably dramatic ending then you could try the good old tactic of having you lead singer bow their head while the lights dim and the camera pulls back to reveal - ah ha! - that the band was On A Soundstage All Along. Thus you reveal the artificiality of the music video and undermine the video's story with an unsettling note of self-awareness. Or something. Anyway, it looks totally awesome.

** As does the last scene of ''Full Frontal'', directed by Creator/StevenSoderbergh.
* Anime/{{The Big O}}.

* Another BritCom example is ''The Worker'' starring Charlie Drake. The show ran for four series, and not one but ''two'' series finales ended with the Worker discovering that he was really a comedian called Charlie Drake who was making a SitCom.

* Every Abbey Road Studios dreamscape in Music/TheBeatles RockBand ends by returning to the "reality" of the recording studio. [[http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/videos/sgtpepper Even for songs that start with the dreamscape already "on"]].

* {{Genesis}}'s 'Illegal Alien', at the end, pans up from the 'dusty Mexican town' that the song takes place in and up to show the fact that ... well ...

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* The video to E-type's "Angels Crying" is a cliché [[SlasherMovie slasher movie]] with the lead male singer playing the AxCrazy to moderately disturbing effect. (Pop lyrics go from asinine to genuinely creepy fast when they're presented as the words of a lunatic.) At the end the camera pulls back to reveal a set, actors come out to congratulate each other, props are moved around, cue a hand grasping a piece of scenery.

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* This is the entire premise of The Futureheads' video for "The Beginning Of The Twist".

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* [[http://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2009/apr/02/womens-aid-keira-knightley-ad This]] disturbing MindScrew ad raising awareness for domestic violence, featuring Creator/KeiraKnightley.

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* Played in "Through Glass" by StoneSour. Everything in the video (except the band members, but including a pool and a mansion) turns out to be a cardboard cutout, ending with the band on a soundstage.

* The long-form Creator/DavidBowie video ''Jazzin' for Blue Jean'' has a PlayedForLaughs example (though on a street rather than a soundstage): Bowie suddenly breaks his uncool nice guy character to object to the story's ending, in which [[spoiler: that character doesn't get the girl, as the other character he's playing does]]; the shot changes to reveal the crew filming the scene as he argues with the director over the issue.

* The long-form DavidBowie video ''Jazzin' for Blue Jean'' has a PlayedForLaughs example (though on a street rather than a soundstage): Bowie suddenly breaks his uncool nice guy character to object to the story's ending, in which [[spoiler: that character doesn't get the girl, as the other character he's playing does]]; the shot changes to reveal the crew filming the scene as he argues with the director over the issue.

* The finale of TheHills has this sort of ending.

** This is also a gag at the expense of those who think the moon landings were faked on a soundstage.

* [[http://www.theguardian.com/media/video/2009/apr/02/womens-aid-keira-knightley-ad This]] disturbing MindScrew ad raising awareness for domestic violence, featuring KeiraKnightley.

Subtrope of RevealShot. Compare ProsceniumReveal.

If the song you're making a video for ends with a dramatic fade of the instruments and you want a suitably dramatic ending then you could try the good old tactic of having you lead singer bow their head while the lights dim and the camera pulls back to reveal - ah ha! - that the band was OnASoundstageAllAlong. Thus you reveal the artificiality of the music video and undermine the video's story with an unsettling note of self-awareness. Or something. Anyway, it looks totally awesome.

Compare ProsceniumReveal.

* The Presidents of the United States' "Dune Buggy" video seems to show the band playing the song acoustically around a nighttime beach campfire for a small group of friends, until an electrical spark in the final second provides a brief illumination.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctoZbeD-GlY This]] disturbing MindScrew ad raising awareness for domestic violence, featuring Keira Knightley.

** As does the last scene of ''Full Frontal'', directed by StevenSoderbergh.