For this incredibly well-shot, stylish promo filmed on location in the atmospheric Istanbul, Trudy Bellinger captures a revamped Katherine Jenkins beautifully.
Katherine Jenkins
Bring Me To Life (Warner Music)
Director: Trudy Bellinger
Production Company: Crossroads films
Representation: OBmanagement
Producer: Kwok Yau
DoP: Magni Agustsson
Camera Operator: Sam Brown
Bolex Camera: Mark Adcock
Stylist: Fleur Egan
Hair: Zoe Irwin
Make Up: Charlotte Reid
Online Artists/Suite: Prime Focus
Offline/Editor: Claudia [...]

Black Swan Song is about Athlete frontman Joel Pott’s grandfather John, who recently passed away. He was a British paratrooper in WW2 who fought and was badly wounded at the Battle of Arnhem.
Mark Locke has managed an impressionistic but truthful re-creation of that terrifying experience on rather less than war movie-level resources. But this is [...]

Following his excellent promo for Placebo earlier this year, directing legend Howard Greenhalgh continues his return to form with this energetic, muscular performance clip for Canadian rocklords Billy Talent. Devil On My Shoulder is the opening track from the band’s new album Billy Talent III, released last month.
Billy Talent
Devil On My Shoulder (Warner Music)
Director: [...]

VV Brown meets HB Brown, and they go to town with the outfits.
On a distinctly martial theme as it happens. In fact, it looks like they raided ‘Military Uniforms, early to late 19th century’ room at the V&A for this one. That’ll be Harvey drawing upon his fashion masters degree again…
VV Brown
Game Over (Island)
Prod co: [...]

Deep in the forest, the kids with groovy eye-shadow get down to party, in Tommy Sparks’ new vid by Shelly Love. And then they turn their groovy eyes on full beam.
Shelly has recently joined Crossroads Films for music videos and commercials (and repped by OBmanagement) and she went to the Post Factory to execute her [...]

Mark Locke, writer-director of short films, the cult movie Crust, and videos for UNKLE and Misty’s Big Adventure, has signed to Crossroads Films for videos in the UK.
Mark has also directed the excellent new video for veteran grungers Dinosaur Jr. And who knew that J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph not only formed one [...]

One of the low/no budget videos selected for this year’s Rushes Soho Shorts music video comp is this one from recent Crossroads Films signing Dan Storey for unsigned band The Turner Brothers, co-directed with the Turners, Patrick and Anthony.
It’s quite fun watching their geek, unabashedly busting a move in London’s touristland. He’s definitely on drugs…
The [...]

Howard Greenhalgh is back. And if that wasn’t enough of a surprise, he’s back with Placebo. Bloody hell, didn’t Howard make the very first Placebo vids many moons ago?
Probably. But For What It’s Worth is also probably the best thing they’ve ever done together. Essentially everything gets labelled, which is both revealing and baffling. Indeed, [...]

Dodgy-haircutted dance-pop hopeful FrankMusik’s heartfelt performance vid is multi-layered. And because the ever-effervescent Tim Pope is behind it, it’s multi-layered in all sorts of ways – in real time, with backdrops and front-projection, and clever post production trickery too.
And that means lots of dodgy haircuts.
FrankMusik
Better Off As Two (Universal Island)
Prod co: Merge@Crossroads
Director: Tim Pope
Producer/DoP: Sam [...]

Walter Robot (that’s Christopher Louie and Bill Barminski) made their very first video for a contest for Modest Mouse (they won) which was featured in the very last issue of the published-on-paper, hold-in-your-hands PROMO.
They’ve only been together since ’07 but Walter Robot have since completed numerous narrative and experimental projects in live action and animation. [...]