Little Mix ‘DNA’ by Sarah Chatfield

Sarah Chatfield makes an impressive return to British pop, by channeling a little bit of Sin City in her sassy and visually bold video for Little Mix’s DNA: Sarah turns the X Factor-honed girls from glamourous pop stars into equally glamourous stalkers in a noirish story of obsession. The DNA video is beautifully shot by [...]

Hurtwood Prize competition launches with tutorials by music video professionals

A new music video competition has launched that invites young people to make a video for one of four of the UK’s most exciting bands, and also gives entrants the chance to understand how the professional music video industry works with a series of tutorials featuring some of the UK’s top music video professionals. The [...]

Shortlist announced for music video competition at Plus Cameraimage

Ross McLennan, Will Bex, Shawn Kim, and MVA-winner Lasse Frank are among the cinematographers recognized for their work in music videos over the past year, in the shortlist of 15 music videos selected for the first official music video competition at Plus Cameraimage, the international film festival focused on the art and craft of cinematography, [...]

Peaches’ I Feel Cream by Kinga Burza

It’s sexy, as you might expect with a video for Peaches – but even though the styling is very Spiders From Mars, not in an ironic way. Kinga Burza’s video for I Feel Cream is also hypnotically gorgeous, with experimental camerawork, projections, and vision-mixing – all achieved on a smidgeon, as she explains below. In [...]

Just Jack’s Doctor Doctor by Nick Frew

For some reason supermarkets are a godsend for music videos – as demonstrated by Jane’s Addiction all those years ago, Travis and k-os. Nick Frew proves the point again for Just Jack, who plays a shelf-stacker with conflicted feelings for bimbo-bombshell checkout girl Trixy. Will Bex, the hardest working man in videos, provides the ideal [...]

AlexandLiane’s Ting Tings wins at the VMAS…

The Ting Tings’ video for Shut Up And Let Me Go by directing duo AlexandLiane, won the Best UK Video prize at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night in Los Angeles. The video easily beat off competition from Coldplay, Estelle, Duffy and Leona Lewis to win the award, taking more than half the [...]

The Hoosiers’ Cops And Robbers by Diamond Dogs

Featuring a teeming cast of lords, ladies, soldiers, sailors, wenches, geezers, butchers, bakers, candlestick makers, loonies, jugglers, brazen hussies and, of course, cops and robbers. It’s the third and most ambitious collaboration yet between The Hoosiers and Diamond Dogs’ Phil and Olly – an Oliver!–style Dickensian-epic extravaganza. And the trumpet player is just brilliant. The [...]