This is a stunning video for new Ministry act London Grammar’s lovely Wasting My Young Years by Bison that executes an amazing visual trick.
Falling bodies are captured, and tracked by the camera in mid-fall. You might think its old school time-slice at first, but then the viewer is taken completely around a body – as if walking around at someone frozen in time.
How on earth did they do it? The very simple answer is pinhole cameras and 35mm film. Their behind the scenes film explains it all thoroughly – and how it neatly reflects the theme of the song. Superb.
London Grammar
Wasting My Young Years
Director: Bison
Producer: Liz Kessler
Prod co: A+/Academy
DoP: Matyas Erdley
Art Director: Owen Gundry
Film Loader/Camera design consultant: Jenny John Chuan
Editor: Vid Price @ Family
Tk Consultant: Mick Vincent @ The Mill
TK: Houmam Abdiallah @ the Mill
Post producer: Luis Martin
Post: Bison
Make up: Candy Alderton
Styling: Laura Clayton
Commissioner: Caroline Clayton
Label: Ministry of Sound
Ian Robertson, director of the acclaimed and hugely popular videos for Delta Heavy and Duke Dumont, has joined Colonel Blimp for music video representation.
Ian’s first stop motion music video Lyrical Spread won a BAFTA New Talent Award in 2011 and his music video commission for dubstep duo Delta Heavy’s Get By (top right) – involving stop motion animation that took a month to complete – racked up over two million views in one week (with over five million to date). That resulted in him winning a Young Director Award in Cannes, and the video being nominated for two UK MVAs in 2012.
In their release announcing his signing to the company Colonel Blimp describe Ian as: “A bright young director and animator with captivating videos to his name. Ian has an eye for playful concepts, ambitious visuals and the patience to match. He’s the rare kind of director that is equally at home with capturing charming and comic performances in polished live action as he is creating beautiful and painstakingly handmade animation.”
“The narrative of the video is fairly straight forward, it’s a look at a fleeting relationship between a girl and Yannick (Petite Noir)” explain Tim & Joe on the promo to Petit Noir’s Noirse – shot at Rowan’s Bowling Alley in London. “At the start of filming I tried not to stage too much where possible.
“Yannick and Maria, the leading lady, didn’t know each other and both hadn’t acted before. So a lot of the moments we captured were real instances of the two getting to know each other. With the crew present in these early stages we developed an understanding of the couples chemistry. This helped give us an understanding of the style of relationship they might have and gave us a good idea of the mood to set for the film.
“We chose locations that had one main thing in common. That was the type of lighting that was mixed or coloured. Marcus did a great job capturing the scenes handheld in these places with a small crew and minimal lighting. The club location Ryan the commissioner found, its actually a shed in someone’s garden that has been converted into a club.
“That was the final location we shot and after two days with a great team it was a mad place to finish the shoot”.
Petite Noir
Noirse (Domino Records)
Director/Producer: Tim Main
Production Company: FRIEND
DP: Marcus Autelli
1st AC: Matt Robinson
2nd AC: Luke Farley
Gaffer: Yann Murawski
Production Manager: Tom Bott
Runner: Jamie Adams
Make Up/Hair: Lulu Pews
Stylist: Neco
Editor: Francisco Forbes
Telecine: Edwin Metternich @ Framestore
Directors Rep: Obmanagement
Cast: Yannick Illunga (Petite Noir) & Maria Maleh
Thanks: Russell @ Badlife, Joe Dixon, Oliver Schofield, Hannah Whiteoak (Arri Focus), Eddie (So Hire), Rowans Bowling Alley, The Man Cave & All The Extras
Commisioner: Ryan McCann
SoMe deliver a dark and minimal promo to Pusha T’s Numbers On The Board which sees the track’s producer Kanye West make a brief appearance during Pusha’s highly watchable crazy-eyed performance…
Pusha T
Numbers On The Board (Def Jam/Island)
Director: SoMe
Production Company: Iconoclast
DP: Nathaniel Aron
Producer: Roman Pichon Herrera
Line Producer: Thomas Vignali
Location Scout: Gauthier Ravily
Post Producer: Renaud Coulon
Editor: Adam Robinson & Adriana Legay
Post Production: Nightshift
UK Rep: Somesuch & Co.
A rousing performance by Deaf Havana of their song Boston Square captured by Frederick Lloyd on location in Churchill’s house in Putney (where the recent video for Dido was also shot).
“I wanted to do something that matched Deaf Havana’s new image and sound, but also resonated with the lyrics as it’s an incredibly personal and tragic song despite the upbeat nature of it in parts,” says Frederick. “It’s about someone really close to you from your past ending their life and so I wanted to tie together a really strong, emotive performance-based video, that really did the grand, anthemic nature of the track justice.
“I wanted to tie in this idea of memory and nostalgia, these fading memories and reflections but also the idea that they are never forgotten, always living within those memories. So I tried to bring some of that across, introducing small, dreamlike moments within a thundering performance from the band.”
Deaf Havana
Boston Square
Director: Frederick Lloyd
Producers: Alex Harman & Elliott Williams
DoP: Matt Vahey & Jonny Flint
1st AD: Nathan Killham
1st AC: Duncan Trevithick
2nd AC: James Chegwyn
Gaffers: Jonny Dew, Claire Randell & Dan Goodall
Spark: Ryan O’Donoghue
Hair & Make Up: Sophie Medhurst
Production Company: Kode Media
Production Assistants: Jamie Whysfam & Josh Halling
Thanks: UK Film Location, Panalux & Movietech
Commissioner: Jamie Osman
Anton Octavian has impressively channelled his felt-tip style fury into this colourful stop-motion montage for Sirsy’s Lionheart. Put together on a digital drawing tablet, Anton has managed to animate some ‘live’ performance of the band, and also render some of the king of the jungle himself.
One-man production team Anton says: “I think that was thousand of drawings done on my amazing old Cintiq tablet. Also I was lucky with several live recordings that helped me as a reference to animate the band characters. The folks from Funzalo Records gave me a free-reign on this project, especially Dan Agnew who kept telling me ‘Anton… you’re the director…!’.”
Sirsy
Lionheart (Funzalo Records)
Pre-Production, Post-Production, Directing, Animation, Editing: Anton Octavian
Commissioned on Radar Music Videos
In a sparse office building, a group of unprepossessing office workers become mesmerized by the sounds of CSS playing Hangover on the TV, and erupt into an impromptu dance – a dance as it happens, choreographed by one of the great names of the golden age of music video…
Matt Dilmore had been waiting for an opportunity to work with Toni, the director and choreographer of the video for Talking Heads’ Once In A Lifetime for one, and a groundbreaking video performer in her own right, most famously with Oh Mickey. Here she creates a wonderfully quirky group dance with a group of oddly affecting characters that’s the core of this entertaining video.
Matt says: “I’ve always felt that Toni Basil has been criminally underrated as a visual artist and music video director. Her work for Talking Heads and Devo really made an impression, growing up. The clip for her own Walking The Dog is one of my favorite videos of all time.”
“Toni and I had been looking to do a dance-based art project together for the last few years. When CSS reached out to me about a music video, I felt like it was a great opportunity for Toni and I to do something unexpected in terms of choreography and style.”
“We wanted to do something really minimal and primitive but also allow for a bit of choreography and calisthenics to creep in.”
CSS
Hangover
Director: Matt Dilmore
Production Company: Epoch Films
Co Director: Toni Basil
EP: Melissa Culligan, Brielle Murray
Producer: Caleb Omens
DP: John Barr
Production Designer: Thomas Bed
Stylist: Rebecca Blazak
HMU: Jessie Bishop
Choreographer: Toni Basil
Editorial: Arcade Edit
Editor: Greg Scruton
Producer: Shada Shariatzda
VFX: MassMarket
VFX Producer: Marcus Lansdell
Compositors: Warren Paleos, Robert Henry, Hyunjeen Kim
Colorist: Ricky Gausis, MPC
Telecine Producer Amanda Ornelas , MPC
Executive Producer Ed Koenig, MPC
Label: SQE Music
UK Rep: Jen & Alison at Las Bandas Be Brave
Tom Smith’s band Editors return for a fourth record following a three year hiatus and the loss of a founding member. Fortunately, where there was one there are now two, ensuring that Editors still have the performance power to blast through Mark Thomas’s high-contrast, smoke-projected and water-affected promo for A Ton Of Love – all in beautiful black and white.
However, the show is truly stolen by Tom’s terrific mutton-chop sideburns…
Editors
A Ton Of Love
Director: Mark Thomas
Producer: Tim Mullett
Production Company: SoupCo
Director of Photography: Ben Moulden
Lighting: Chris Sarginson
Art Direction: Joel Rock
Make up: Rebecca Hodgkinson
Animation: Alex Hindle
Editor: Mark Thomas
Post Production: Alex Hindle, Jim Dawson
Label: PIAS
Commissioner: Sean Mayo
Former East 17 frontman Tony Moritmer marks his debut as a solo artist with the retro flavour of Shake It Down and turns to director Antoine Dixon-Bellot for the tongue-in-cheek promo.
Antoine places Mr Mortimer in a TV studio setting – think 70s show Supersonic – complete with band, dancers, over-zealous fans and the producer having a nervo…
Tony Mortimer
Shake It Down (FOD Records)
Director: Antoine Dixon-Bellot
Production Company: Mastermind Media
Producer: Andrew Taylor
Editor/Grade: Astar Pixels
DP: Aaron Reid
1st AC: Tom O Keefe
2nd AC: Alex Kirkwood
Gaffer: Joel Rainsley
Spark: James Canavan
Crane: Pat Mckeeman
1st AD: Stefanie Zari
Runners: Afzal Robbani, Leslie Hesse
Production Manager: Sameer Patel
Production Assitant: Az Razaq
Art Director: Ben Swailes
Assistant Art Director: Lisa Royal
Choreographer: Danielle Drayton
Styling: Naomi
Assistant Styling: Melissa Lee, Monesia Samuels
Lead Artist Make Up: Deborah Elias
Hair & Make Up: Melissa Massey
Hair & MU Assistant: Laura O’Donnell
Hair: Marney Whelan
Casting Director: Gemma Gurvitz
Watch: here
Copenhagen-based director Martin Garde delivers a beautifully shot, slow-burning promo for Marie Fisker’s alt pop ballad On The Beach, focusing around a heavily intertwined couple played by Gaia Brandt And Oliver Hoiness.
Set in the lovers’ house, Martin explains: “We see a couple living their everyday life. Like Siamese twins they will move according to each other and bend if necessary – together and as individuals. Depending on and challenged by balance”.
Marie Fisker
On The Beach (Maryvine Records)
Director: Martin Garde
Production Company: Bungalow 8
DP: Mattias Troelstrup
Gaffer: Martin Riello
Colourist: Norman Nisbet
Producer: Flossy Cleveland
Editor: Frederik Ahlevig
VFX: Boserup
Make-up: Nikola Berkova
Cast: Gaia Brandt And Oliver Hoiness
Location: Tina Depner
Camera Assistant: Phillip O’strit
Editor’s Assistant: Adam Ljoså
Smoke Shaper: Anton Nipgaard
Post: Pumpkin
This is a stunning video for new Ministry act London Grammar’s lovely Wasting My Young Years by Bison that executes an amazing visual trick.
