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Conducta 'Only U' by Lewis Rose

David Knight - 14th Mar 2018

Conducta goes from London to Paris to meet a girl, and ends up meeting another one, in Lewis Rose's breezily entertaining video for Only U.

It's a wonderful ad for Anglo-French relations, with a bittersweet ending that could be seen as a symbol of our ending partnership with one of our main partners in the EU, like a metro ticket disappearing into a machine...

LEWIS ROSE:

"Conducta was keen to shoot in Paris from the off. We thought this would be fun, but were all conscious that the video didn't become a typical cheesy Paris love story. So we set out to find unusual locations that showed a non-tourtisy side of Paris. Our brilliant French location manager Jean Paul delivered in a big way and we got some great spots.

"Emma Dalesman (DOP) and I then looked at some film references, settling somewhere between La Haine and Before Sunrise. We wanted to capture a romantic vibe to some extent, given that it's a bubbly garage tune – we got lucky with a beautiful winter ​sunset on a car park rooftop for the final scene...

"But we made sure that we kept a bit of edge in the ​locations, the ​shooting style and the ​edit, as well as ​ending the video, with a bit of comedy to keep it entertaining... Hopefully it worked!" 

David Knight - 14th Mar 2018

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Lewis Rose
Producer
Ben Mealing
Production Company
Executive Producer
Kirstin Cruickshank

Camera

Director of Photography
Emma Dalesman

Wardrobe

Make-up
Chetan Jassar

Casting

Lead actor
Elina Saleh

Editorial

Editor
Lewis Rose

Grading

Colourist
Susumu Asano
Colour grade company
Final Frame

Agent

Director's Representation
Lock It In

Commission

Commissioner
Nathan Tettey

Misc

Location Manager
Jean Paul Girbal

Other credits

Runners

Jake Parker, Kieron Musicka

David Knight - 14th Mar 2018

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