Richard Hunter’s previous video was for Good Shoes’ The Way My Heart Beats. His new one is for unsigned London outfit Chapter 24 – who, like a few up and coming bands, are playing at SXSW this week. Richard says: “The video was shot a thin shoelace budget, not those chunky ones you hear about, [...]
An effective performance video for the impressive Pope Joan – who’ve been building a strong live following in the south east of England over the last few years – by Josh Cowdry. Shot at the Komedia in Brighton, it was made on a micro-budget with a variety of different techniques and cameras: the ‘jelly’ effect [...]
A classy and atmospheric video celebrating the glory of proper rock photography in mesmerizing monochrome, for Dark Horses’ debut single Alone. The director is Pierre Angélique – an unfamiliar name who’s work seems vaguely familiar somehow… Dark Horses Alone Director: Pierre Angélique Photography: Ali Tollervery Editor: Leila Sarraf
Worship are unsigned, but won’t stay that way for long – certainly not after this video for their song Collateral, directed by Blake Claridge. The big labels are already sniffing around the Reading-based band, no doubt clocking their Radiohead-like qualities. Blake gives them an excellent showcase – a well shot, forest-set performance with a haunting [...]
Here’s a steadicam performance video with a difference, for unsigned singer Luis Almau by new director Stuart Hall. In fact, its made up of what would usually be the outtakes that the editor would immediately consign to Trash. “I really wanted to do a stereotypical, artist-sings-to-camera one-shot video – but with the twist of the [...]
Toon Aerts didn’t manage to complete his horror trilogy for El Guapo Stuntteam because the band split up – and it would’ve been hard to match the fantastic Back From The Grave anyway. Instead he’s now made this ultra-violent cartoonish shoot ‘em up for The Sore Losers – El Guapo singer Cedric Maes’s new band, [...]
Pomplamoose – excellent exponents of the homemade VideoSong – have swiftly jumped the Gaga/Beyoncé bandwagon with their own version of Telephone. Featuring their very own Shameless Product Placement. Its had almost Gaga-like results: nearly 600,000 views on their YouTube channel in a mere three days. It’s not hard to figure out why – one online [...]
Excellent showcase for the unsigned Exlovers by newcomer Jamie Chung. It’s a straightforward performance that’s nicely located and art directed – and finds itself understandably attracted to the very watchable girl singer. Exlovers You Forget So Easily Director: Jamie Chung Producer: Jamie Chung DoP: Phil Turner Art directors: Lucy Yates & Luke Price Editor: Rebecca [...]
Finely rendered and highly enjoyable welter of murderous mayhem and gore, illustrated by Damien Weighill, and animated by Stephen Wake. Which might possibly upset fans of Mother Teresa… Damien is a very fine illustrator, whose work you almost certainly know. His projects include Bad Nature and Back To Square One, as well as supplying drawings [...]
Mark Locke is the writer/director of several short films including Eat In, The Missing Link and When I Leave The Sixth Form I’m Getting Straight Into Something Media Related. He directed an astutely satirical video for Misty’s Big Adventure’s Fashion Parade that made the NME’s top ten Youtube videos of 2007, and the promo for [...]
