Archive for December 20th, 2012
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 [...]
Thursday, 20. December 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Ghost Robot, HARRYS, So Many Details, Toro Y Moi
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 [...]
Thursday, 20. December 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Craig Roberts, Here With Me, Th2ng, The Killers, Tim Burton, Winona Ryder
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. [...]
Thursday, 20. December 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Imagine Dragons, Interscope Records, Las Bandas Be Brave, Radioactive, Syndrome
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 [...]
Thursday, 20. December 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: disco:wax/Sony Music, Mind The Gap, Morten Vilhelm, Nabiha, Scott Altman
Shot in Manhattan with the crew from the Columbia Film Institute, Robin Fraser Pattinson delivers a poignant promo for Beatie Wolfe’s fragile ballad Make It Up. “Beatie’s lyrics are already very emotive so I just wanted the video to have it’s own twist on her idea” explains Robin. “It’s basically a story about a guy [...]
Thursday, 20. December 2012 | Comments Off
Tags: Beatie Wolfe, Columbia Film Institute, Make It Up, Robin Fraser