Following the rowing adventure that was his video for Take That’s The Flood, Mat Whitecross teams up with Eran Creevy for their next single Kidz. Here Creevy takes us through the process behind the brilliant and epic production: “Mat Whitecross and I are close friends and hadn’t co-directed since we first set up our production [...]
For the past 12 months Pulse Films’ directing duo FRED&NICK have been filming and editing a feature length behind-the-scenes documentary on the reunion of Take That with Robbie Williams, and the creation of the resulting album, Progress. Shot in New York, LA and London, and with unrestricted and highly privileged access to the band and [...]
Shot at Dorney Rowing Lake near Eton back in July, Take That row back into action with this superb Mat Whitecross-directed promo for big ‘welcome back Robbie we missed you’ single The Flood. “The original idea for the video came from the band – they wanted to do ‘Chariots of Fire meets Forrest Gump’, a [...]
Ben Newman has been making very impressive low budget videos all year, for Bombay Bicycle Club, Example and Example. So why should his Wiley video by any different? Well, it isn’t. Another excellent video, with great performances from dancers Shanie Ryan and Yasmin Ogbu, and a top edit. And Wiley even showed up (eventually) and [...]
Take That have been making sophisticated, intelligent pop videos ever since their comeback. So good to see they’ve got together with Lindy Heymann, who knows all about making sophisticated, intelligent pop videos. And the result is one of their most reflective and downbeat videos ever – a twist on the ‘tears of a clown’ theme, [...]
The music video campaign since Take That’s comeback has been superb – strongly instrumental in elevating them once again into a nation’s affections. But this is still quite a surprise: a Take That video so grittily realistic one can almost sense the guiding hand of a Ken Loach or Shane Meadows. Actually Dan Wolfe, quite [...]
Justin Dickel has joined Flynn Productions for music video representation. Justin’s music video work includes the clips for Take That’s Shine, Just Jack’s No Time, Orson’s Already Over and David Jordan’s Sun Goes Down. He was previously at Streetlight Films. Independent directors rep Siobhan Murphy is now repping Justin together with the rest of the [...]
