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British Sea Power 'A Light Above Descending' by Rob Savage

David Knight - 29th Jan 2014

Rob Savage - one of our Directors To Watch in 2014 – has shown further evidence of his considerable promise with his new video for British Sea Power's A Light Above Descending.

Like his previous video for Dear Reader's Took Them Away, this is concerned with the stirrings of young passion. In this case, its less theatrical, and political, and more naturalistic: there's something very believable about the relationship between a boy (Sammy Williams) and girl (Izzy Meikle-Small) on a day out in the woods. Which makes the supernatural payoff all the more effective.

The brief was to create a memory of childhood, with a sinister twist in the tail, and this has been achieved superbly – on a miniscule budget.  

Rob Savage:

"When I was growing up, my friends and I would invent local legends on the spot, telling stories of the spirits that inhabited the local library or the rabid creature that lived in the shed at the end of my garden. We would each pretend that we had seen things that backed up the others' stories to the point where I can't even place where my own memories end and the stories begin. I wanted to evoke that same feeling in the video, mixing traditional coming of age tropes (the first kiss etc.) with something sinister bubbling away under the surface.

"We shot the video on a wet November weekend with a fantastic cast and crew. The video features rising talents Sammy Williams (Wild Bill) and Izzy Meikle-Small (Never Let Me Go), who should both be commended for spending so much time with the dead fish, which was accidentally left unrefrigerated overnight."

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David Knight - 29th Jan 2014

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Rob Savage
Producer
Genia Sophie Krassnig
Production Company

Camera

Director of Photography
David Mackie
Focus Puller
Max Glickman
Camera Assistant
Alex Smith, Ollie Craig

Art

Production designer
Katie-Ann MacGregor

Wardrobe

Make-up
Marcio Abraao

Casting

Lead actor
Sammy Williams
Lead actor
Izzy Meikle-Small
Lead actor
Kate Herron

Editorial

Editor
Riccardo Servini
Sound design
Tom Whetmore

VFX

VFX Supervisor
Carl Guyenette

Misc

Writer
Rob Savage
Writer
Kate Herron
Prosthetics
Lea James

Other credits

Production Assistants

Daniel Dyer, Riley Madincea

Visitor vocals

Riccardo Servini

Special Thanks

Rob Watson, Iyare Igiehon, Noel Goodwin, Pablo Brown-Jennett, Louis Berry, Arri Media, Take 2 & Barry Measure

David Knight - 29th Jan 2014

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