Gabriella Cilmi’s Hearts Don’t Lie by Emil Nava
Tuesday, 18. May 2010 - 11:30 am
For Hearts Don’t Lie – the second single from Gabriella Cilmi’s Ten album – the Australian singer-songwriter gets together with Emil Nava who delivers a suitably colourful, up reading of the dancefloor throbber.
Gabriella Cilmi
Hearts Don’t Lie (Island)
Director: Emil Nava
Production Company: Pulse Films
Producer: Francesca Barnes
Executive Producers: Ben Pugh / Rory Aitken
Representation: OB Management
DoP: Ross McLennan
Art Directors: Helen & Marcus
Stylist: Susie Culthard
Hair: Brendan Robertson
Make-Up: Emma Osbourne
Offline Editor: Steve Ackroyd @ Final Cut
Colourist: Aubrey Woodiwiss @ The Mill
Commissioner: Marisa Garner
Watch: here
18. May 2010 - 1:14 pm
Emil Nava truly is the Jude Law of promo directors.
18. May 2010 - 2:10 pm
Neil wants spitroast.
18. May 2010 - 3:13 pm
Emil Nava truly is the Jude Law of promo directors.
WHY NOT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING
“THE JOHN MAJOR”
“THE MISS PIGGY”
“THE AINSLEY HARRIOT”
“THE SIMON LE BON”
“THE UWE BOLL”
18. May 2010 - 3:48 pm
This is terrible. I don’t think ‘cheap’ covers it.
18. May 2010 - 4:38 pm
Agreed, Gabriella. In order to get the full effect of this piss-poor, no imagination video just watch it side by side with her last one from just a couple of months ago. CHRIST ON A BIKE. Did the poor girl’s last single haemorrhage THAT much money..?! Perhaps that’s the reason this one was cobbled together with whatever spare change the commissioner had in her back pocket.
About as sexy as a cup of cold sick.
18. May 2010 - 5:16 pm
You buggers keep stealin my TURKEY.
18. May 2010 - 6:14 pm
i think she is really fit. Is she over 16?
18. May 2010 - 6:31 pm
get yer claws off her producer boy………..IF THATS YER REAL NAME!!!!!!
18. May 2010 - 7:14 pm
i’ve just came back from the toilet and honestly, my post-curry house s**t had more style.
ugly, crap and just plain naff, as usual.
18. May 2010 - 9:06 pm
bit of a stinker
19. May 2010 - 12:08 am
time puts everyone in their place…but i just wonder how long will take Emil to realize that to direct music videos you only need to be a bite talented and have a bite of taste, clearly both lacking in ALL his jobs.
19. May 2010 - 5:03 am
can everyone chill please – poor bloke
19. May 2010 - 10:04 am
this thread tastes of sour grapes
19. May 2010 - 10:17 am
Yea how many of you lost the job to him
19. May 2010 - 11:19 am
i think the worst thing this vid has to offer is the diabloical casting.
and this whole sour grapes business………as soon as people want to offer an opinion (good or bad)…….well if its bad then it cannot be the video……..oh yes………they must have pitched on it and lost out.
get real……….if that was the case then even if a promo were good they would write bitter comments…….bitterness and sour grapes survive no matter what the outcome of the finished product.
but when a promo is bad its bad………and this is bad.
19. May 2010 - 11:52 am
You lot are so boring… Emil don’t listen to the hate. Thats all it is!
19. May 2010 - 12:02 pm
i think she’s fit and just wanted to make sure she’s all legal and above board. Where’s the hate in that?
19. May 2010 - 12:40 pm
Producer Boy you are tiny… I can’t hear you!… sorry what?
19. May 2010 - 1:16 pm
i derive most of my authority from my stature. My desire for ladies is not affected. I’m over here!!!
19. May 2010 - 1:33 pm
Kipper as ever is the voice of reason. The video is heinous, irrespective of who may or not have pitched on it, or may or may not have lost out to Nava. It’s ridiculous to think that losing a pitch is the only reason people hate this video…It ain’t. It’s simply godawful for a pop video. And there’s just no excuse for that – Cilmi’s a gorgeous subject, the track is a frothy Xenomania hit-in-waiting. What could go wrong?
Oh wait. We can all see EXACTLY what went wrong above…
19. May 2010 - 8:09 pm
this thread tastes of sour grapes.
19. May 2010 - 11:51 pm
come on guys. its not the best video in the world but it does its job. this is all a bit ott. rise above it emil.
19. May 2010 - 11:54 pm
It is not a ‘great’ video but it is sad to read a lot of the negative comments are a far too personal…
20. May 2010 - 3:59 pm
Its because Emil is young and making a living from music videos / commercials… I think there is definitely jealously behind some of these comments…
Tragedy – you are a grape.
20. May 2010 - 4:46 pm
yes… i think emil will do well to ignore the poisonous attitudes of people posting here. hes young, he succeeding, and theres much on his reel to like. hes certainly done better than this, and he probably knows it. who cares? while the critics here shuffle off mumbling under their breath, emil will more than likely be putting the next project together.
the video world is a very frustrating place to be at the moment, and whats sad is that these blogs seem to be a forum for people to vent this frustration. sure, you dont have to like everything, but it takes a certain kind of person to put something down so vitriolically. its an odd misdirection of energy, if you ask me.
go on you lot. go create. and then lets have a look at it.
20. May 2010 - 5:09 pm
I think Emil is a great director. This isnt his best video, but I feel like you guys are being way too hard on him. Emil has shown time and time again to have a rock solid work ethic, with a strong visual style and great videos that are exciting and distinctive to him. I agree with crush and burn, there are far worse videos out there, and far worse on promo news. But I think this vitriolic aggression, is coming from people seeing someone who is consistently putting out decent stuff, and when they do something under par, see it as an excuse to come down hard. So please Emil, dont take any of this bullshit to heart.
20. May 2010 - 5:22 pm
Totally agree with crash and burn above.
However, there is the old belief that if Nava wasn’t absolutely happy with this video he wouldn’t and shouldn’t have permitted his reps and production company to put it up on Promonews. He’s put himself and his work up here on the firing line so he has to expect both good and bad feedback. Granted, some of the comments here are needlessly extreme…Boy, does Nava seem to rub people up the wrong way!
But there are so many videos that are created every week that aren’t put here on Promonews. I know directors who don’t post anything and everything they work on up here, and instead hold out for things they truly wanna shout about. Maybe all the vitriol is coming from the point of view that Promonews should only celebrate only the cream of the crop as it has done in the past, and people here feel this video or its director don’t justify the attention..?
Good or bad, at least the video’s generating discussion. Surely key criteria for any director?
21. May 2010 - 12:28 am
so now we’ve gone from slamming to bumming. emil is not a great director jean luc picard – he’s exceptionally average. which is fine – and all that a lot of pop commissioners want. but lets not tip the balance to far the other way. what promos in his canon display his “strong visual style and great videos that are exciting and distinctive to him”???
this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWyGkLuvWgE
21. May 2010 - 1:57 am
okay, jason fortune. I will concede, not that one. I really liked the tinchy stryder vid that was on here last year though. Hey, I can do some slamming and some bumming if I like, mixing it up. that hand that giveth, also slappeth etc etc.
21. May 2010 - 2:30 am
“exceptionally average”.
Never a truer word spoken about this director, jasonfortune.
And exactly why commissioners hedging their (safe) bets on a video love ‘im, and the people on Promonews hate ‘im. He’s the unwitting posterboy for an imploding, creatively starved British video scene.
Poor bloke..!
21. May 2010 - 7:30 am
jason… theres nothing wrong with a little bumming or slamming. its good to get an honest and objective opinion on what youve done because directors are generally surrounded by a clutch of people who arent able or willing to do this. even unconstructive criticism can be constructive for the director, and most – if theyre honest – will be scanning these blogs to see what their contemporaries think of them. so yes… say what you like about the work.
what i really object to is the kind of public character assassination unfolding here. emils not a ‘posterboy’ for an ‘imploding, creatively starved british video scene’ for anyone other than you. this is not about the work, poptart, its about some wider frustration of your own.
emil has found a tidy niche making solid, low budget videos for people who like them, and who very probably (despite the griping here) dont want anything else. the much greater part of the viewing public just cant connect with the kind of videos that the average antville and promo blogger will champion. this is a fact. the commissioners know it too. some videos will be works of art, others will tidily put a face to the single and then be forgotten forever.
again: so what? let him get on with his thing, and you do yours.