The Sacred Egg deliver this unique ‘eye control’ promo for Amplify Dot’s Get Down, where the artist’s eye movement controls the angle of the shot. Mixing furious staccato performance edits with animation snippets and stills, The Sacred Egg drive the thunderous soundtrack to excellent effect. “We wanted to do a performance video where someone’s eyes [...]
The campaign for the second Hurts album Exile starts with this impressively cinematic two minute mini-promo for The Road directed by Nez – who has now joined Riff Raff Films for music videos and commercials. Conceptually, the video takes the viewer on a journey of the life of Hurts duo Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson [...]
Emeli Sandé wrote Clown about her feelings when she was just entering the music business, trying to get signed, and dealing with music business people for the first time. She wanted the video for Clown to reflect that – and, fresh from his video for Robbie Williams’ Different, WIZ has reimagined that specific experience into [...]
We’re aiming to publish the Promo News Readers’ Poll of the Best Music Videos of 2012 this coming Friday morning, December 21st. And we’ll start counting up your votes tomorrow (Weds). So there’s still a little bit more time to add your personal Top 10 videos of the year to the Readers’ Poll! Final final [...]
The latest project by The Blind Club – expert exponents of the live music video – is for guitar-maestro Jonathan Wilson. The Leeds-based team actually shot this live performance of Jonathan and his band close to home – in Bradford – and it turns out they are big fans of his brand of classic blues-rock. [...]
Spanish indie-poppers La Casa Azul enlist director Jean-Marie Marbach to translate the energetic stomp of their La Fiesta Universal single. Shot over one day, Marbach delivers an effects-laden ‘virtual future’ with explosions, glass-smashing, floating, strobing… culminating in a mind-bending work-out. La Casa Azul La Fiesta Universal (Elefant Records) Directed by Jean-Marie Marbach Starring Alix Bénézech [...]
