Howard Greenhalgh felt unsatisfied with the music video made after the black hole sun of the title was only mentioned, but not seen. Six months later the video was remade, making additional takes and including a made-by-CGI black hole sun.
The scenes of the band playing on a yellow field with a blue cloudy sky (with the clouds passing quickly) was filmed using CGI with a blue chroma key, with the band standing up over a little bases or pedestals in the same color, to be elevated over the ground.