Archive for October, 2012
Treatments are required now to make new official music videos for three classic songs by three heritage artists – The Shadows, Gerry & The Pacemakers and The Hollies. The Fyzz Music Video Ltd, a production company that is creating premium music video content for timeless songs from the 40s, 50s, 60s & 70s that never [...]
Wednesday, 31. October 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Gerry & The Pacemakers, The FYZZ, The Fyzz Music Video, The Hollies, The Shadows
A story of burlap sack-wearing young lovers for Bloody Beetroots’ Chronicles of a Fallen Love – featuring Faroe Islands singer Greta Svabo Bech – directed by British directing duo Mathy & Fran, who’ve given their love story a slight taste of the festival of All Hallow’s Eve. “Our starting point was the big haunted emotion [...]
Wednesday, 31. October 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Bloody Beetroots, Chronicles of a Fallen Love, Greta Svabo Bech, Mathy & Fran, Mrs Grey
This very accomplished, Mad Men-style animation for The Dead Fronts’ Killer Bee comes from Tom Senior, who has incorporated the angular retro-rocking sounds of the band into this urban tale of a man’s date with a femme fatale, who floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. Animator and illustrator Tom Senior’s other animation [...]
Wednesday, 31. October 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Killer Bee, The Dead Fronts, Tom Senior
Shot in and around Arkansas under a sweltering sun, Frank Donnangelo delivers this intense and violent drama for upcoming folk artist Adam Faucett to accompany his single Blood Is Blood. “All of Adam Faucett’s lyrics have pretty strong narratives, and in hearing the song Blood is Blood, I just saw this dysfunctional dynamic between a [...]
Wednesday, 31. October 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Adam Faucett, Blood Is Blood, Frank Donnangelo
The ever wonderful Natasha Khan (Bat for Lashes) returns with her third album ‘The Haunted Man’, and heralding her return is director Charlie Targett-Adams, who’s beautifully constructed this explorational short focusing on Natasha’s time off between albums, her retreat to the seaside and the construction of her new work. Charlie’s done a great job of [...]
Wednesday, 31. October 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Bat For Lashes, Charlie Targett-Adams, Love, The Haunted Man
Online fashion retailer ASOS launches its global Christmas campaign, which features three separate videos showing Azealia Banks, Ellie Goulding and supermodel Charlotte Free, each showcasing the brand’s new Christmas collection in their own individual way. All three films have been directed by Luke Monaghan. Now represented by Rokkit, Luke has previously directed music promos for [...]
Wednesday, 31. October 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: ASOS, Charlotte, Luke Monaghan, Rokkit
White Rabbit – that’s the directing team Grant White and Jon Park – return to the psychedelic territory they visited in their promo for The Horrors’ I Can See Through You in this promo for duo Paradise’s Endless Wave. It’s a colourful romp featuring powders used in the Indian festival of colours, in very English [...]
Tuesday, 30. October 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Endless Wave, Gabi Norland, Grant White, Jon Park, P For Production, Paradise, White Rabbit
A brilliantly absurdist video for the tremendous Here We Go Magic’s Hard To Be Close by Nat Livingston Johnson and Gregory Mitnick – aka directing duo known as Peking – who take the traditional ‘three men stuck in a lift’ routine and transform it into a surreal comic gem. This is actually one of several [...]
Tuesday, 30. October 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Hard To Be Close, Here We Go Magic, Nat Livingston Johnson and Gregory Mitnick, Peking, Secretly Canadian
What with Don’t Think for the Chemical Brothers and Shut Up And Play The Hits for LCD Soundsystem, it’s been quite a year for concert movies. Now here comes another major filmed concert event – for arguably the world’s biggest band, and directed by Paul Dugdale, who brought us the Prodigy’s awesome concert film Worlds [...]
Tuesday, 30. October 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Coldplay, Coldplay Live 2012, JA Digital, Paul Dugdale
Shot largely in an abandoned warehouse in London, Naroop captures lively and enigmatic performances from Sway and Mr Hudson in his promo for Charge – featuring the briefest of cameos from one Ed Sheeran. “The track has a strong meaning and Sway was keen to put a positive message across with the visuals, so I [...]
Tuesday, 30. October 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: All Around The World/Universal, Charge, Cynthia Lole, Naroop, Rokkit, Sway ft Mr Hudson