Manchester band The 1975 get together with director Tim Mattia for this rich, monochrome performance video to partner their next single The City. Looking cool and effortless amid some amazing on-body projections, Tim captures the band as they ride a wave of critical acclaim and just before they hit the States – they’ve announced two [...]
A blazing meteor crashes to earth in Martin De Thurah’s beautiful and incredibly atmospheric film for James Blake’s new single Retrograde. Taken from his forthcoming second album Overgrown, the promo sees the director and electronic maestro team up for the third time following previous pairings on Limit To Your Love and Lindisfarne. A collaboration between [...]
The Saturdays invade California in Sarah Chatfield’s latest video for band – their debut American release – where she crafts an infectiously fun promo set against LA’s urban landscape to accompany What About Us, currently climbing the Billboard Hot 100. Sarah lends an informal, playful style to the visuals, following the girls in the big [...]
Produced under the Leicina Film Unit moniker, Mark Thomas of Soup Collective delivers a trailer for the forthcoming Delphic album Collections. Using the Kinect 3D sensor as a camera device (to get the groovy, sparkling starburst effect) and the RGBD Toolkit, Thomas captures the band performing the album tracks in a live setting… Delphic Introducing [...]
Blurring the edges between full-scale feature and music video, Mattias Erik Johansson delivers this quite epic trailer-style promo for the Kaiser Chiefs’ shiny new single Listen To Your Head. “Our location manager, Damon Crane, was on foot for three days negotiating with anyone and their mother’s aunt to secure as many shooting options as possible,” [...]
The Saturdays get glammed-up and head to an American diner with director Taylor Cohen for a spot of speed-dating in the promo to new single 30 Days. The Saturdays 30 Days (Polydor) Director: Taylor Cohen Producers: Mikey Levelle/Danielle Hinde Production Company: Doomsday Entertainment Editor: Deji LaRay at Sunset Edit DP: Richard Stewart Commissioner: Emily Tedrake
Giorgio Bruni and Toby Ross-Southall capture Dot JR and crew at work and at play in and around London for the promo to My Way. Dot JR is the latest signing to Tinie Tempah’s Disturbing London imprint. Dot JR ft Sincere & Gfrsh My Way (Disturbing London) Director: Giorgio Bruni & Toby Ross-Southall Production Company: [...]
James Caddick’s last Maccabees video, for Can You Give It, documented men running and falling after cheese on a steep hill in Gloucestershire. This one, for Feel To Follow, has the population of an English village floating into the air. Again, although featuring a large cast of locals, it focusses on a single character. And [...]
Emerging Derby dubstepper Simon ‘Youngman’ Smith teams up with Stephen Agnew for the promo for Who Knows. A night performance, shot in Gunnersbury Park and St John’s Wood in London, is augmented by FX that includes pavements with digital vibrations and facial effects. All adds to the slightly eerie urban-dance atmosphere – with props to DoP [...]
Steve Glashier delivers a beautiful performance promo for Nerina Pallot creating a timeless atmosphere for her pretty ballad All Bets Are Off. “The idea was to create a simple but stunning performance video,” says Steve. “Set entirely within a ruined church with Nerina lip syncing to the track while astride a large white horse, snow [...]
