Wearing some very fetching eye furniture courtesy of Jane Bradley, Leona Lewis teams up with Trudy Bellinger for the promo to new single Love Bird. With styling from Dean How and hair by Ben Cooke, Bellinger captures Ms Lewis at her most glamorous – even when caged like a bird… Leona Lewis Love Bird (Syco) [...]
Big TV get back into promoland with a blockbuster for Biffy Clyro’s Black Chandelier – hitting the net ahead of the release of the band’s new album Opposites on Jan 28th. The veteran directing duo of Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom deliver a darkly cinematic treat oscillating between a band performance (punctuated by nasty, black [...]
Here’s Trudy Bellinger’s horse-and-hound-themed trailer for Sky Living’s Britain & Ireland’s Next Top Model, starring age-defying Elle McPherson. And then there’s the alternative blooper promo, showing just how difficult it is working with dumb animals. Britain & Irelands Next Top Model – Promo Agency: Sky Creative Executive CD: Clare McDonald Lead Creative: Scott Russell Director: [...]
Caswell Coggins has been missing from music videos for a while to concentrate on documentary work, and things like this – the new trailer for the forthcoming second season of BBC cop show Luther, starring Idris Elba. Idris as Luther un-destroys his office, and returns to a state of relative serenity, all to the strains [...]
Three days in the Spanish desert shooting choppers chasing Porsches and motorbikes… with two videos at the end of it. It can only be Jay Kay – and for this kind of thing, you hardly need to look to anyone other than Howard Greenhalgh. Jay Kay supplied all the toys from his personal collection – [...]
Fifteen months on from coming fourth in 2008′s X Factor, the (some might say) quirky-voiced ‘contestant most likely to’ finally gets round to releasing a single. Slickly choreographed, styled and photographed – and more wardrobe changes than you’d get in a Gaga video – this glossy Harvey B Brown production suits Vickers’ nu-pop direction. Diana [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
