That waitress has a very infectious smile… and the result is sheer mayhem. A hilarious video for The Kooks’ Saboteur, by new directors Surrender Monkeys, with distinctive work by DoP Cosmo Campbell. The Kooks Saboteur Director: Surrender Monkeys DoP: Cosmo Campbell Production: El Nino
Jeremy Konner delivers this quite epic and hilarious six minute promo for the return of Tenacious D (aka movie star Jack Black and Kyle Gass). With brilliant cameos from Val Kilmer, Dave Grohl, Tim Robbins, Jimmy Kimmel and Josh Grobin, the video, set up as a type of reunion, is part of the campaign to [...]
Shot at the Action Underwater Studios facility in Essex, Louis Ellison directs this extraordinary and unique promo for ambient dubstepper Context. Louis explains: “As Context is unsigned, we had an absolutely micro budget so we got a great deal for the studio and everyone else worked for free. In fact we had people queueing up [...]
Featuring a pair of dancers from the Bat Sheva Dance Company, Adam Bizanski delivers this nifty exhaustively-choreographed promo for Izabo’s I Like It. “The idea is to shoot the same exact dance routine over and over again, only with slight differences in choreography, attire, etc, and later sewing up the different pieces,” explains Bizanski. “The [...]
Emily Kai Bock, director of the acclaimed video for Grimes’ Oblivion (right), has joined Somesuch & Co for music video and commercial representation in the UK. Hailing from Toronto, Emily moved to Montreal, where she co-curated a loft/venue which functioned as a hub for local artists and musicians – and where she met Claire Boucher [...]
Music Video Production Association (US) has announced the return of their MVPA Music Video Awards, scheduled for June 1st in Los Angeles – and the deadline for entries for the awards is in two days time. Entry to the awards must be made before the end of Saturday, March 31st. For more information about the [...]
Cool, clean, abstract, shape-driven motion graphics for Berlin-based electronic artist Vexkiddy’s Dear Boss by James Ward, one half of the Scubaboy directing team with Jonathan Hardy, working solo on this occasion. “Vexkiddy approached me sometime last year to ask if I was interested in making an animated video for Dear Boss,” James explains. “There was [...]
A performance video on a snowy London estate that ticks all the boxes – excellent song, big performance, effective FX, and the spot-on direction of Swedish-born singer Beatrice Eli’s The Conqueror by Michael Holyk, an up-and-coming director whose work improves with every outing. Beatrice Eli The Conqueror (Levels Entertainment) Director/DP: Michael Holyk SFX: Scott Green [...]
Shot on Location in Bali, Sulawesi, East Aurora, Buffalo and Brooklyn, Michael Lawrence’s exotic and carefree promo for Emil & Friends has supermodels, horses, cloaked bathers and Lawrence’s eyeball – masquerading as a floating orb… Emil & Friends Crystal Ball (Cantora) Director/Art Director/DP: Michael Lawrence Visual Effects: Alex Amoling Editors: Alex Amoling & Michael Lawrence [...]
New Derby-based directing/producing team JK:AK (James Knott and Adi Kerr) deliver this dramatic, swirling promo for hotly-tipped UK producer Si Tew. James: “Filmed on a small budget over two separate nights, with high winds, rain and snow trying to slow us down, we finally managed to get the shots we needed. “We wanted to create [...]
