For Rudimental’s Waiting All Night, Nez and producer Elliott Tagg travelled to LA to reconstruct, in the form of a mini drama-documentary, the inspirational story of Kurt Yeager, a top BMX pro rider who came back against all the odds to compete again after suffering a terrible injury. Using numerous cameras – some fixed on [...]
Following their promo for Frightened Rabbit’s The Woodpile last month, James and Justin Lockey of Handheldcineclub deliver this spirited performance video for Backyard Skulls – their fourth for the Scottish rockers. The band play at the end of a high-school prom to students who, a bit worse-for-wear, are treated to a brilliant impromptu dance by [...]
For Plan B’s next single Playing With Fire, Ben Drew turns to Paul Fraser to bring another cutting-edge lyric to life. Paul marries the dark nature of the subject matter with a gritty, violent but nevertheless hugely cinematic promo filmed on a London council estate which sees Ben, and a lot of other things, being [...]
The Blind Club – the music division of Leeds-based production outfit Left Eye Blind – have blazed a trail with their own brand of music video in the past couple of years. By giving live performance the cinematic resonance of a pop promo, they are pioneers of the ‘live music video’, and as such they’ve [...]
Following promos for Rita Ora and Paloma Faith, Emil Nava continues his longstanding collaboration with Ed Sheeran to deliver his fourth video in quick succession. Emil’s gritty and imaginative video for Give Me Love – brilliantly shot by DP Olivier Cariou – features Isabel Lucas as the dark, modern-day cupid out on a matchmaking mission… [...]
Shot in the heart of Los Angeles in the area known as Koreatown where all the signage is in Kanji and the predominant language is Korean, Jordan Bahat delivers this unusual and beautiful promo for Dog Is Dead’s Teenage Daughter. With an exquisite performance from Nao Minami in the lead role, Jordan had this to [...]
Based on the life story of a break-dancer called Mouse who grew up in the slums of Manila, photographer Josh Cole (who has known Mouse for 15 years) marks his debut as a promo director with this compelling and brilliantly-shot video for Rudimental’s Not Giving In. It features some amazing breakdancing from its young Philipino [...]
Following his promo for The Deepest Shame yesterday, Paul Caslin’s second video for Plan B features a live shoot from Ben Drew’s gig at Bedgebury Forest in Kent. Filmed on 5 cameras, the idea was to capture the best bits from the entire show and mash them together in the edit. The live footage was [...]
In the first of two promos for the UK singer, Paul Caslin delivers this provocative, intense and hard-hitting promo for Plan B’s Deepest Shame – from the new album Ill Manors – telling the story of abused kid Michelle with sensitivity and drama. Performances by Ben Drew aka Plan B and Anouska Mond are intercut [...]
Singer Delilah gets super steamy on her bed – performing the ‘dance of love’ with her partner – in Jake Nava’s softly-lit and sensual promo for her intense ballad Inside My Love. Delilah Inside My Love (Atlantic) Director: Jake Nava Producer: Ben Cooper Rep: FreeAgent UK Commissioner: Dan Curwin
