Sleeping Sun (Four Ballads of the Eclipse)
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A video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...

 was shot for the song, in which Tarja Turunen
Tarja Turunen
Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli is a Finnish singer-songwriter and composer. She is a full lyric soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves....

 seems to have red hair. The videoclip includes many landscapes characteristic of Finland, for example the forests, the beaches and a large grain field. The video was directed by Sami Käyhkö and shot at Ivalo
Ivalo
Ivalo is a village in Inari Municipality, in Finland's Lapland Province, located on the Ivalo river 20 kilometres to the south of Lake Inari. It has a population of 3,998 and a small airport...

 and Lake Inari
Lake Inari
Lake Inari is the third largest lake in Finland and the largest lake in Sápmi. It is located in the northern part of Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle. The lake is 117–119 meters above sea level and it is regulated at the Kaitakoski power plant in Russia...

, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

, July 1999.

Together with a new recording of the song found on the compilation Highest Hopes, a new video was released in 2005, which shows Turunen as a queen of some sort, walking along a field of dead and wounded soldiers. In the video the other band members appear as soldiers, who apparently survived the war.

Crew

  • Director: Sami Käyhkö
  • Producer: Paula Eronen
  • Executive producer: Sami Manninen
  • Cinematographer: Risto Laasonen
  • Camera assistant: Kalle Pekkala
  • Trip and organizer: Juha Virtala
  • Makeup and costumes: Johanna Pulli
  • Grip assistant: Esko Virtala, Ville Kyro
  • Offline editors: Sami Käyhkö, Reko Turja
  • Telecine colourist: Adam Vidovic
  • Online and compositing: Sami Käyhkö, Reko Turja

Personnel

  • Tarja Turunen
    Tarja Turunen
    Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli is a Finnish singer-songwriter and composer. She is a full lyric soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves....

     – Vocals
  • Tuomas Holopainen
    Tuomas Holopainen
    Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen is a Finnish composer known best for symphonic metal music. He has also studied jazz and classical styles, but prefers to be influenced by harmonic film music....

     – Keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

  • Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen – Guitars
  • Jukka Nevalainen
    Jukka Nevalainen
    Jukka Antero "Julius" Nevalainen is the drummer in the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish and the Finnish progressive metal band Sethian.- Biography :He spent his early years in the city of Kitee...

     – Drums
  • Sami Vänskä
    Sami Vänskä
    Sami Vänskä is the former bassist of Finnish symphonic power metal band Nightwish.-Background story:He started playing bass as a private study. He has played in a few bands which have been mostly from the metal genre....

     - Bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....


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