A new user-created music video for Lily Allen’s hit The Fear directed by Caswell Coggins has been launched to promote new XBOX 360 videogame Lips Number One Hits, following the teaser TV ad that played during the X Factor Live Final in December. It’s a crowd-sourcing vid – but with something extra special going on. [...]
Phil Griffin, former ultra-prolific purveyor of the British Pop Vid, makes his big break- through into Rock, with Kings of Leon. Walls do indeed come tumbling down. Phil shot the band in Nashville, then added the scorching VFX at Rushes back in London. The Rushes team led by Leo Weston comped the band in front [...]
Patrick Daughter’s nice ‘n creepy new one for Grizzly Bear’s excellent single, from their acclaimed new album. That’s the band in the video, looking increasingly happy. So happy that their eyes are getting larger and their skin is really glowing. Does that usually happen when you have a hit record? Probably… Patrick simply turns the [...]
It’s a low budget interpretation of ‘band in a white studio’ performance for Feeder’s latest single, evidently involving four weeks of solid post insanity. Which Robin “El Skid” Schmidt describes below, rather entertainingly… Feeder Tracing Lines (Echo Label) Prod co: Chrome Productions Director: El Skid Producer: Hannah Chandler/Robin Schmidt DoP: Matt Cooke Post: El Skid [...]
On one level Stuart Gosling’s video for Universal Classics and Jazz artist Jonathan Ansell is a conventionally slick and cinematic showcase for the ex-G4 singer’s solo debut. But it actually could be a pioneering piece of work. It’s almost certainly the first music video in the UK shot with the revolutionary RED camera system. RED [...]
Band Aid? I think I require stitches. Rushes, without a hint of embarrassment, tackle one of the modern yuletide classics en masse, and lovingly recreate Nigel Dick’s video from 1984 just about shot-for-shot (unfortunately without shoulder pads and George Michael’s frosted hair). Frankly it has to be seen to be believed and, apart from a [...]
Talk about a hard act to follow. Doing a video for a cover of Massive Attack’s Teardrop invites all kinds of comparisons with one of the iconic videos of forever. Perhaps not surprisingly Diamond Dogs’ Phil and Olly have steered well clear of animatronic foetuses (foeti?) for Newton Faulkner’s new version. They’ve created their own [...]
Fatima’s new video for Sugababes visually explores the changing seasons and typically for the director she uses a lot of visual effects work to enhance her lush beauty portraits of the ‘Babes. A team at Smoke & Mirrors completed the grade, online, 3D and effects work on the video. Senior Flame operator Jon Berridge provided [...]
