Menhaj ‘Huds’ Huda, director of Kidadulthood (right) and much more, has joined Film Industry Talent for promo and commercial representation, together with cinematographer David Meadows.
Huds has completed final cut on Comedown, his third feature film due for release with Studio Canal later this year. The horror flick about a resident psychopath picking off a group of friends at a pirate radio station is being billed as a UK’s Scream. He also recently took time out to direct a series of spots for Freederm through shop Bray Leino.
David Meadows, known for his work on Human Centipede II and Strippers vs Werewolves, has just completed a promo for Ladyhawke’s latest track “Sunday Drive”, produced by The Bank. Meadows was able to bring his feature experience to the shoot around the streets and parks of London, using the Canon 5D with Zeiss primes.
French director/animator Maxime Bruneel works his magic for UK eccentric duo Punks Jump Up with this neon animated beauty to accompany their jaunty single Mr Overtime, featuring Chromeo’s Dave 1 on vocals.
The band wanted a promo inspired by Amos Poe’s Alphabet City movie so Maxime’s idea was to have a car driving in the fog at night – with obvious references to David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive and Lost Highway.
Entirely animated with a very minimal render, black background, flashy colors in 2D, Maxime injected graphics, designed typos and perverted the colors scale to reach to something definitely current and more pop…
Punks Jump Up ft Dave 1/Chromeo
Mr Overtime (MODA)
Director: Maxime Bruneel
Prod co: ChezEddy
Producers: Nicolas de Rosanbo, Jeff Bourrel
Line Producer: Coline Six
Post-Production: Anne-Lise Mallard – Steven Ligot
CG Supervisor: Christophe Delamarre
CG Artists: Jérôme Auffret, Maxime Granger, Fred Morteyrol, Laurent Davené
2D Supervisor: Tina Dardenne
2D Artists: Mathieu Ratier, Grégory Jaillard, Jérémy Macedo, Alrik Blöm, Mathieu Babin et Philippe Valette
Editing: Manuel Coutant (thanks @ChezLouis)
David Fishel films The Brute Chorus performing their tribal indie thing on a rooftop – with added gore in the shape of reverse blood splatters – making a right old thick, gloopy mess…
The Brute Chorus
Death Came Walking Parts 1&2
Director/Producer: David Fishel
Production Company: GuerillaGorilla
Assistant Director: Carlye Eckert
Practical blood effects: John Sorensen-Jolink & Laura Graham
Assistant Camera: Drew Perrin
Shot over two days in the downtown area of the city, Mike Rosenthal and Sam Sparro recreate Prohibition-era Los Angeles for Sparro’s new single I Wish I Never Met You.
With excellent choreography from Nina McNeely (Britney Spears, B-52′s, Adam Lambert), Sparro dons next-season John Galliano exclusively for the promo…
Sam Sparro
I Wish I Never Met You (AMI)
Director: Mike Rosenthal/Sam Sparro
Producer: Jason Baum
Exec. Producer: Danielle Hinde
Production Company: Doomsday Entertainment
Editor: Arianna Tomasettig
Choreographer: Nina McNeely
Production Designer: Ethan Feldbau
Stylist: Michelle Tomasweski
Mr Kaplin takes the minimalist synth tones of Toob’s Wavaphon and delivers an impromptu physics lesson with this neat stop-motion animated promo.
Mr Kaplin says: “This video is our attempt at creating a graphical representation of the mathematization of motion, showing only a small amount of the different formulas used to define the chaos within our universe”.
Toob
Wavaphon (Process Recordings)
Director/Designer/Animator: Mr Kaplin
A juicy video for Ninja artist Slugabed’s Sex by Chris Ullens – featuring Slugabed’s Turbo Juicer 4000.
The video takes the form of a retro infomercial which demonstrates how the Turbo Juicer turns crushed audio-tapes into the best juice you’ve ever tasted, via a complicated yet delightful (stop-frame animated) process…
“Martin and Gregg (Slugabed) approached me with £1900, a great track and a very open mind,” explains Chris. “With the cool track they had, very upbeat and built with loops, I saw the possibility to go crazy with the animation and do something I’ve been wanting to make for a while, so my treatment was over the top ambitious. We all loved it and that led me into shooting for seven weeks, including Saturdays, many Sundays and a lot of nights on my own. It was epic, but I’m definitely happy now!”
Slugabed
Sex (Ninja Tune)
Director and Producer: Chris Ullens
Editor: James Wright
Art director assistant and much more: Jamie Durand
DoP assistant: Matt Day
Camera assistant: Toby and Max from Clapham Road Studios
Also thanks to: Matt, Elizabeth and Geoghan at from Clapham Road Studios
Commissioner and Producer assistant: Martin Dobson
Four heroic horses charge through the desert in Lorenzo Fonda’s promo for upcoming Scissor Sisters single Only The Horses.
With the band trapped inside a pyramid bathed in thick, gloopy paint, the horses set them free at the promo’s climax. We’re pretty sure it’s a metaphor for something…
Scissor Sisters
Only The Horses (Polydor)
Director: Lorenzo Fonda
Producer: Ross Levine
EP: Danielle Hinde
DP: Aaron Platt
Production Company: Doomsday Ent
Editor: Isaac Hagy
VFX: Bonnie Brae
Emeli Sandé teams up with Dawn Shadforth for the promo to her new single My Kind Of Love. Shot over two days, the first in a training hospital the second on the Sussex coast, this emotional story of two sisters, the younger played by Laya Lewis from UK TV show Skins, draws on some of Emili’s personal experiences.
“During my time studying medicine, I found it hard to write, but one of the things that inspired me were the patients and the interaction that they had with their loved ones during their time of illness,” says Emili.
“When people arrived at the hospital, money and status became irrelevant and only health mattered, which sparked an honesty between people which was amazing. This interaction, declaration of support and love, was the inspiration for ‘My Kind of Love’ and something I wanted to try and portray in this video.”
With excellent performances from Sandé and Lewis, the longer director’s cut of this emotional and compelling promo is here.
Emeli Sandé
My Kind Of Love – Director’s Cut (Virgin Records)
Production Company: Black Dog Films
Director: Dawn Shadforth
Head Of Music Video: Svana Gisla
Producer: Lee Groombridge
Production Manager: Jay Lovelock
DP: Ed Rutherford
1st AD: Nickie Sault
Gaffer: Nathan Matthews
Location Manager: Luke Marshall
Editor: Dominic Leung @ Trim
Post Producer: Andy Mclintock @Framestore
Grade: Stef@Framestore
Online: Olly & Paul @ Framestore
Sound: GuiltFree
Commissioner: James Hackett
Taking the radio-friendly monster Feel The Love by Rudimental, Bob Harlow delivers a natural and exciting promo for the UK dubsteppers.
The video takes a look at the lives of a downtown youth group in Fletcher Street, Philadelphia featuring imaginative scenes of horse-riding through the tough, urban neighbourhood…
Rudimental ft John Newman
Feel The Love (Asylum)
Director: Bob Harlow
Production Company: Somesuch & Co.
Executive Producer: Tash Tan
Producer: Sarah Tognazzi/Gaetan Rousseau
DP: Steve Annis
Editor: Leila Sarraf at Trim
Colourist: Luke Morrison at The Mill
Concept by Augusto Sola
Commissioner: Dan Curwin
Watch: here
With a 500 Days Of Summer-inspired narrative, Casey Antwis follows up his excellent vid for Lost Souls Club with this promo for Collectors Club’s First To Know, filmed around Leeds on the Canon 7D.
Collectors Club
First to Know
Director/Producer: Casey Antwis
Director of Photography: Conor O’Grady
Camera Assistants: Terry Ashby, Will Brookes
Location Scout: Terry Ashby
Runner: Sarah Beck
The girl: Jessica Robinson
When US rapper Drake decided to re-commit to the Jewish faith last year, it laid the foundation in Director X’s mind for the promo to the single HYFR (Hell Yeah Fucking Right).
X provides a feel-good video which begins with a young Drake at his actual Bar Mitzvah dancing without a care in the world. The video progresses to present day with Drake and his friends at the ceremony, then on to the party with Drake being hoisted into the the air by the Bar Mitzvah attendees…
Drake feat Lil Wayne
HYFR (Cash Money)
Director: Director X
DP: Joe Labisi
Producer: Michelle Larkin
Production Company: DNA
Art Director: Alex Delgado
AD: Jesse Sternbaum
UK Representation: Luti Media
Menhaj ‘Huds’ Huda, director of Kidadulthood (right) and much more, has joined Film Industry Talent for promo and commercial representation, together with cinematographer David Meadows.
