Flame

Andy Copping

Bees, butterflies, flowers, pollination... it&#39;s the most natural thing in the&nbsp;world. And&nbsp;Ninian Doff has captured all that&nbsp;and more in all its breathtaking beauty - and then&nbsp;made it erotic by pairing it&nbsp;to the&nbsp;extremely&nbsp;explicit lyrics of&nbsp;Run The Jewels&#39; Love Again.&nbsp;Produced by Pulse in association with online US comedy channel JASH, it&nbsp;was shot by specialist&nbsp;nature documentary DOP&nbsp;Rod Clarke&nbsp;over five days in Bristol. Then editor Paul O&#39;Reilly had the mammoth task of transforming 17 hours of footage into a sizzling four minutes of viewing (and listening), giving&nbsp;the insects and plants the personality to pull off the sexual references.&ldquo;The challenge was choosing the right moments to give each insect a personality throughout the film,&rdquo; says Paul, &ldquo;We wanted the bees to look horny, the butterflies seductive, the flies dominated and the Venus flytraps alluring.&quot;The Homespun editor was on set for the whole shoot.&nbsp;&quot;It was a delicate and intriguing process to capture the film we needed to make the edit. To ensure the insects didn&rsquo;t keep flying around too fast, they were contained in a chilled environment before filming which gave them that undulating slow kinesis we wanted when exposed to room temperature.&rdquo;For Doff, it was very important for all the footage to be genuine.&nbsp;&quot;It was really important to me that all the insect footage was all real so that the video was an amazing example of how audio changes a film,&quot; he says. &quot;With piano music and David Attenborough narration this could go on TV on a Sunday Afternoon. With Run The Jewels amazing song on the exact same footage is&nbsp;so X-rated people blush watching it.[imgtoken data:1]&quot;However insects are basically emotionless robots and the challenge was to make them perform in a way that was still 100% real but told all the personality and &#39;performance&#39; I wanted. This is where the edit was really like a needle in a haystack for Paul. Literally within an hour of footage of an insect there might be two seconds of an amazing twitch or sidestep that totally elevated the video and sold the emotion. The fact that we really connect and understand what the insects are feeling, be it lust or fear, is a huge testament to Paul&#39;s work on this.&rdquo;

United Kingdom

Ninian Doff

Pulse Films

JASH

Rik Green

Sarah Boardman

Amaechi Uzoigwe

Daniel Kellison

Rod Clarke

Matt Pugh

Nick Pitt

Paul O'Reilly

Homespun

Julien Biard

Finish

Ewen Stenhouse

Luis Almau

Mass Appeal Records

Alternative, Hip Hop

Run The Jewels ft. Gangsta Boo 'Love Again' by Ninian Doff

Love Again (feat. Gangsta Boo) - Run The Jewels

In keeping with the band&#39;s natural and earthy vibe, Ed Sayers and Bear&#39;s Den travel to the serene and beautiful&nbsp;Bantham Beach in&nbsp;Devon for the promo to Agape, which sees the West London folksters get progressively immersed in the dank sand - in fear of the incoming crashing tide. Simple and gorgeously effective.

Ed Sayers

Seven Productions

Eben Bolter

Paul Moth

Final Cut

Paul Harrison

Folk

Indie

Bear's Den 'Agape' by Ed Sayers

Bear's Den - Agape

He&#39;s done animation and he&#39;s done live action. He&#39;s even combined the two. But now David Wilson joins up with animator Christy Karacas (of Superjail! fame) to mix-and-mash the two media in an outstandingly effective and upfront way for Royal Blood&#39;s Out Of The Black.It&#39;s simply the best way to tell this full-throttle super-violent comedy&nbsp;action-horror - involving a gas station heist by psychotic alien inside a giant Easter bunny suit - and his buddies:&nbsp;a snowman, pumpkin, ice cream cone and walking heart. After the animated TV titles intro, the live action centring around a Doofus-like clerk sets the scene, before Karacas&#39;s extravagantly gory alien-revealing animation takes over...&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;I became a fan of Christy&rsquo;s show&nbsp;Superjail! a few years ago,&quot; says David. &quot;It was Christy&rsquo;s incredibly inventive fight sequences and love of hand drawn animation that made me obsess over his work. I love hand drawn animation. It&rsquo;s where my&nbsp;directing career began, and I still fill my free time over a light box, drawing away.&ldquo;I wanted to give Christy as much creative freedom as possible whilst making sure&nbsp;the animation and the live action would still sync together. I would give Christy the starting point of which characters were fighting, where their geographical placing was on the set, and which characters&nbsp;would die. It was then up to Christy to create fight sequence, knowing the in-and-out points.&rdquo;Post-production was carried out at Finish, who provided the colour grade and extensive visual effects work to knit the promo together. &quot;&ldquo;One of our key jobs was to create several big matte paintings, the main one being the backdrop for a scene where the service station employee confronts the aliens in costumes,&quot; explains Flame artist Judy Roberts.&nbsp;&quot;A smashed up helicopter, cars and a dead body, were all added to the clean plate using hand textured CGI renders, and various supplied photographic elements.Colourist Julien Biard adds: &ldquo;David is based in LA and he couldn&rsquo;t be in the grading suite with me so we used a remote grading system, where I&rsquo;m grading in London and David is at another facility in LA. It&rsquo;s great because both suites are linked up by an almost instantaneous feed so he could see every adjustment of the grade in real time.&quot;&ldquo;They worked tirelessly to elevate the piece,&quot; says David of FInish&#39;s input.&nbsp;&quot;Like with the majority of Post Production this is done in ways that are often very difficult to spot, but that&rsquo;s only because they did an incredible job. The result lived up to my dreams. I dreamed BIG on this one!&rdquo;&nbsp;

David Wilson

Christy Karacas

Colonel Blimp

Nathan James Tettey

Corin Taylor

Benjamin Gilovitz

Mike Hart

Michael Berlucchi

Ari Robbins

Greg Allen Lang

Francis & Pereira

Max Windows

Stitch Editing

Judy Roberts

Cheryl Payne

Sam Seager

Warner Music

Rock

Royal Blood 'Out Of The Black' by David Wilson & Christy Karacas

Royal Blood - Out Of The Black (Official Video)

Ninian Doff&#39;s dramatic and claustrophobic video for Kasabian&#39;s Stevie translates the song&#39;s lyrics &ndash; addressed to a potential killer &ndash;&nbsp;into a futuristic&nbsp;scenario about&nbsp;the creation through relentless conditioning&nbsp;of an indestructible&nbsp;human. And you sense that it&#39;s not for altruistic&nbsp;reasons.&nbsp;Masked&nbsp;scientists experiment on a young boy, who knows nothing else but the dark, starkly-lit room where he goes through a grinding daily routine &ndash; and becomes impervious to pain. But ultimately the boy shows he&#39;s not simply a completely programmable machine, in a video which grips the viewer as it builds suspense - and leaves us wondering if it is actually set in the future.And as with his videos this year for Peace and Royal Blood it shows that Ninian - nominated for Best Director at the UKMVAs next month - is getting as good with serious cinematic narratives as he has always been&nbsp;with VFX- and comedy-driven videos.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Zak Razvi

Max Horn

Sascha Nixon

Jonathan Sidwell

Steve Annis

Mike Linforth

Thomas English

Lee Parfitt

Joel Rock

Danie Farrington

Nil Tomakan

Leo King

Hannah Simons

Mike O'Keefe

Joceline Gabriel

Sony Music

Kasabian 'Stevie' by Ninian Doff

Kasabian - stevie

Firstly, they revealed the real key to getting ahead in business (and some of the stranger benefits) with their video for Money. And now, Peace and Ninian Doff are back together,&nbsp;to expose the fraught, even dangerous&nbsp;process of making pop videos...&nbsp;for boy-bands.&nbsp;For Lost On Me, Ninian transforms the indie fourpiece into a rather unlikely pretenders to One Direction&#39;s crown - but the &#39;fourth wall&#39; on this pop vid pastiche quickly comes down&nbsp;to reveal the hassled choreographer who&#39;s supervising the lads&#39; moves. And when things go badly wrong behind the camera, Ninian and Peace have a lot of fun with the boy band-as-puppets idea.Talk about a health and safety nightmare...

Rachel Rumbold

Ore Okonedo

Benjamin Edwards

Ben O'Farrell

Ben Moulden

Tony Kay

Marc Covington

Craig Davis

Lucie Red

Emily Bliverstone

Supple Nam

String & Tins

Lisa Foo

Indie Rock

Peace 'Lost On Me' by Ninian Doff

Peace - Lost on Me

Following the videos for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/01/20/rae-morris-skin-nadia" target="_blank">Skin</a> and <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/03/28/rae-morris-do-you-even-know-nadia" target="_blank">Do You Even Know</a>,&nbsp;Nadia Marquard Otzen&nbsp;continues her fruitful collaboration with singer Rae Morris with the video for Cold. The song is a duet with Fryars, aka&nbsp;Benjamin Garrett, who also stars in the video, as Nadia transforms the battling relationship described in the song on a grand scale.&nbsp;The setting is an impressively huge hanger-like space, where two groups of male and female dancers represent the conflict of the two main protagonists, through the&nbsp;choreography of Aaron Sillis, in a compelling and original way...

Nadia Marquard Otzen

Academy Films

Liz Kessler

Rasmus Heise

Aaron Sillis

Emma Savill

David Stevens

The Assembly Rooms

Lee Watson

Freelance

Atlantic Records

Dan Curwin

Rae Morris ft Fryars 'Cold' by Nadia

Rae Morris feat. Fryars 'Cold'

Ninian Doff invites you into a world of suits, braces, boardrooms, secret handshakes and bizarre gestures in his highly watchable promo for Peace&#39;s Money.Ninian&#39;s video is a well-cast, sharply-executed swipe at male bravado and Masonic politics. And then it&nbsp;takes an unexpected turn...

George Nelson

Ahmet Husseyin

Mark Halowina

Emily Bilverstone

Trevor Smith

James Hayday

Scott Ellis

Dan Dewhurst

Cory Peterson

Gary Colandro

Alan Groves

Sophie Apollonia

Barnaby @ Panalux

Tom Wynbourne

George Garnish

Jay Burgess

Ellie Rumbold

Peace 'Money' by Ninian Doff

X Factor winner Matt Cardle&nbsp;and former Spice Girl Melanie C&nbsp;team up in this video for&nbsp;Loving You - the first track to be lifted from Cardle&rsquo;s forthcoming album Porcelain &ndash;&nbsp;directed by Jonny Kight, who gives this performance video an element of sophistication.We see Matt and Mel occupy different rooms throughout a large house, always separate, with snippets of their now-lost intimacy &ndash;&nbsp;until it leads to the climatic kiss...&nbsp;&nbsp;

Jonny Kight

Short Films

Jana Nouskova

Will Jasper

Ciro Candia

Ran Geffen

Alex Finlayson

Chris Belcher

Anthony Ward

Romaine Foster

Francesca Massariol

Nicola Wake

Ilona Russell

Caroline Frazer

Sally Cooper

Cut+Run

OB Management

Katie Dolan

Matt Cardle & Melanie C 'Loving You' by Jonny Kight

'Loving You' Matt Cardle and Mel C

After the first collaboration between Naughty Boy and&nbsp;Emeli Sandé for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2012/09/28/naughty-boy-featuring-emeli-sand%C3%A9-wonder-nadia" target="_blank">Wonder</a>, comes another for Lifted, and another video by Nadia&nbsp;Marquard Otzen. And after the journey at the core of that first video, comes the arrival - at a&nbsp;magnificent near-deserted hotel.Shot in upstate New York, Nadia imagines the Hotel Cabana of the title of Naughty Boy&#39;s upcoming album, sparsely populated by individuals lost in their own reverie - it&#39;s a world glimpsed from the outside by two teenage boys....

Sydney Buchan

Jackson Hunt

Amanda Ford

Chloe Kernaghan

Rikke Selin

Judy Robert

James Hackett

Naughty Boy feat Emeli Sandé 'Lifted' by Nadia 

NAUGHTY BOY FEAT EMELI SANDÉ - LIFTED

Following the video for Panic Cord, Kinga Burza continues her collaboration with Gabrielle Aplin on Home by really taking the singer-songwriter to new territory.&nbsp;From those first videos on YouTube that got her noticed, everything featuring Gabrielle up to now has stressed her Englishness. In a way this does the same, but the setting is very different - the Nevada desert.And Kinga has used her own recent experiences to evoke that far from home feeling - which also required Gabrielle to engage in some roleplaying.

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