BUG has announced its favourite videos of 2012, chosen by the team behind the live music video show hosted by Adam Buxton. It contains 21 music videos that featured at BUG in 2012 – a couple actually created by BUG, as part of the TV spin-off Adam Buxton’s BUG which broadcast on Sky Atlantic in [...]
Romain Gavras was the big winner at the Antville Music Video Awards 2012, announced over at videos.antville.org on Christmas Day. He won the Best Director award, while his video for M.I.A’s Bad Girls won Video of the Year, Best Performance ande Best Cinematography in the website’s annual online poll. Emily Kai Bock won best new [...]
It’s Christmas Eve – are you feeling the warm glow of seasonal cheer yet? Or is there still some important shopping to do? Of course there is. Because Christmas is the most stressful/wonderful time of the year. Take it away Andy, you legend… So peace and love to all – and, of course, Joy. This [...]
Here’s Promo News’s first ever end-of-year Readers’ Poll. Thanks to everyone who contributed by sending in their Top 10 favourite videos of the year. Both of you…. Promo News Readers Poll of the Best Videos of 2012 – Top 20 M.I.A. – Bad Girls Director: Romain Gavras The Shins – Simple Song Director: Daniels Benga [...]
Chicago pop-dance trio Krewella join forces with Bryan Schlam for a ruckus in the promo to Alive – from their forthcoming Play Harder EP. Bryan, who has helmed visuals for Swedish House Mafia and Lykke Li, shoots the band as they take over an abandoned house, indulge in a bit of graffiti, build a bonfire [...]
Yoni Lappin and Fred Ellis head to West London to film this summery, lo-fi promo for Only Real’s Backstreet Kissers. The directing duo shoot Only Real – aka bedroom musician Naill Galvin – and his mates kicking around Notting Hill drinking, smoking and generally being young and carefree… Only Real Backstreet Kissers (ASL Records) Director/Editor: [...]
Watch out DANIELS, there’s another like-minded, same name directing duo in town – HARRYS – who’ve delivered a sleek promo for the slick Toro Y Moi. Their experience with fashion videos is used here to excellent effect, shooting Chazwick Bundick’s (aka Toro Y Moi) sultry tale of seduction with subtle surrealism and stylistic flourishes. Excellent [...]
Tim Burton has now directed his second video for The Killers (after 2006′s Ray Harryhausen-inspired Bones) and this one for Here With Me, reunites the über-director with an early muse, and connects him with a young actor who looks a readymade fixture in Burton movies for years to come. Craig Roberts – the kid from [...]
Syndrome take a different tack with this promo, not featuring their now trademark use of epic CGI and special effects, but featuring some very interesting puppetry and the acting talents of Lou Diamond Phillips – he of La Bamba, Young Guns and Stand and Deliver fame… Lou plays a nefarious gang leader with scene-chewing relish. [...]
Simple, stylish and striking, Scott Altman captures Danish singer Nabiha in full-flight performance mode in his monochrome promo for her Mind The Gap single. “After pitching on the video, label and management approached me with a couple of ideas” says Scott. “In the end we stripped the ideas back and decided to shoot a performance [...]
