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 [...]
These two videos go back a bit – the halcyon days of 2008 – and you may know them from various ‘best of’ lists elsewhere. But it’s only right and proper to give a shout-out on Promo to the dynamic directing duo that is That Go. That Go are Noel Paul and Stefan Moore, who [...]
Simple yet blubberingly effective – Ben Newman’s follow-up to his entertaining vid for Bombay Bicycle Club shows how the human face is a wondrous (and, yeah, utterly grotesque) thing in super slo-mo. At least I hope this is super slo-mo. The 9000 Freak Machine Prod Co: London Shot Collective Director/Producer/Editor: Ben Newman Watch: Ben Newman [...]
It’s not exactly a snappy name for a band, but unsigned director Tom Levinge’s teeny-budget video for unsigned indie-folkies Richard Peter Snapes And the Lie Awakes is inventive, cute, charming – and snappy, in a grisly, gruesome sort of way. Well, when you have a cardboard city populated by finger-people and a careless sleep-walking giant [...]
Ben Newman met Bombay Bicycle Club while filming a piece for BBC show ‘Sound’, as they played an underage show at the Camden Crawl. Suitably impressed, Ben (who’s co-directed a few videos before now, as well as directing and producing music TV) pitched on the video for Evening/Morning and got the job. And here’s his [...]
