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Strong Asian Mothers 'Hard To Find' by Tom & Amar

David Knight - 1st Dec 2017

Unsigned band Strong Asian Mothers are propelled into a gripping sci-fi adventure in Tom & Amar's rollicking, hugely ambitious video for Hard To Find. 

It all starts with a vintage TV debate about the existence of extraterrestrials, before launching into a space battle inspired by a certain legendary sci-fi classic. But actually goes one better in adding a spot of psychedelic animation for good measure.
 

AMAR CHADHA-PATEL from TOM & AMAR and STRONG ASIAN MOTHERS:

"Our initial ideas as a band for a Hard To Find video were all over the place, with the main contender actually circling around "Where’s Wally?”. I played Tom the single and he mentioned a reoccurring visual of us singing with expressionless faces while floating through space. It immediately sparked an interest with me and the band, and a week later he came back with a pretty bonkers treatment for a low budget video. I remember saying, “Amazing. Can we do this?”, and then him saying “probably not”...
so we did it anyway."

TOM ALLEN from TOM & AMAR:

"There is a real humour to the content that Strong Asian Mothers produce so it was great fun writing something with that storytelling lens in mind. The video pays homage to a golden era of sci-fi adventure and fantasy from our childhoods, and there’s even a cartoon section in the bridge, because well … we still love cartoons and it obviously wasn’t ambitious enough!"

"We wanted to create an authentic feel so we tried to replicate film techniques from the '70s, building life size sets and miniature models. Strong Asian Mothers are an unsigned band so it was a massive collaborative effort made on a real shoe string with friends lending a hand in front of and behind the camera to bring it to life. And like all things S.A.M, they put their mothers in it too."

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Tom & Amar
Producer
Tom & Amar
Producer
Isobelle Walton
Production Company
Executive Producer
Hayley Williams

Camera

Director of Photography
Tom Turley
Focus Puller
Joshua Dadson
2nd AC
Jake Butt

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Alex Edyvean

Art

Art Director
Amar Chadha-Patel
Art Director
Benny Casey

Wardrobe

Wardrobe
Taff Williamson
Hair & Make-up
Jess Clarke

Editorial

Editor
Tom & Amar

Grading

Colourist
Toby Tomkins
Colour grade company

Other credits

CAST

​Rafiq Richards, Parminder Chadha, Amina Patel, Lena Stadlen, Tom Hampson

2D ANIMATOR

Clair Pinegar

CAMERA/LIGHTING ASSISTANT

Bryan Lim

DIT

Harrison Luxton

SPARK

Tom Hampson

SOUND RECORDIST

Nick Ager

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

Kushal Gupta

WARDROBE ASSISTANT

Giselle

RUNNER

Ella May Kirby

SOUND DESIGN & MIX

Patch Rowland @MACHINE

TV SHOW MUSIC

Adam Janota Bowski

MODEL MAKERS

Josh Stadlen, Sam Stadlen

CAST

Alistair Donegan, Atma Amin, Adam Janota Bzowski, Ben Higgs, ​TD Van Der Beek,​ ​Kyle Jon Shepard,​ Nadine Wild Palmer

David Knight - 1st Dec 2017

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