Director of Photography

Ben Moulden

A family of animated duvet-dwellers experience the magic of Christmas in Karni Arieli and&nbsp;Saul Freed's video for Jack Savoretti's seasonal offering.Arieli and Freed use their characteristically well-crafted use of CGI with live action to bring us into the magical world of these characters, who are living snugly within the duvet of a sleeping child's bed.The sky is lit up with millions of tiny stars, the terrain built from layers of cotton and down.&nbsp;In a car, the dad of the family winds around the mountainous regions of the quilt, getting back home just in time for the end of Christmas Eve. Finally free from the stresses of life, he can relax and spend the most magical time of year with his wife and young children.&nbsp;Charming and beautifully executed, the project&nbsp;is achieved through a mix of live-action and animation, paying homage to iconic Christmas videos of the past. The visual is family-friendly and universal, with a story that is perfectly pitched for the time of year.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Karni (Karni and Saul)

Saul (Karni and Saul)

Sulkybunny Studios

Claudia Naen

Saul Freed

Rosie Ashforth

Lisa Foo

Singer-songwriter

Jack Savoretti 'Christmas Morning' by Karni & Saul 

Jack Savoretti - Christmas Morning (Official Video)

Ben Craig, whose commercials include ads for Assassin's Creed&nbsp;and Scottish Fire &amp; Rescue, has now made his music video debut with this dark and&nbsp;visceral effort for rock band&nbsp;Fears' The Squeeze.Beautifully shot by Ben Moulden, Craig takes the song's theme of the financial 'squeeze' and lyric "ain't nobody going home tonight" to weave a tale of violence and revenge, as&nbsp;the band's&nbsp;lead singer finds himself at the mercy of a vicious group of City boys.

Ben Craig

Tim Daukes

Mike Wells

James Cross

Dan Precious

Barny Crocker

Jomar O'Meally

Neil Wallis

Amie English

Mori Sert

Sally Cooper

Cut+Run

Jim Bracher

The Mill

Luis Martin

Joseph Tang

Sony Atv

Adam Fenwick

Scott Taylor (Morphic)

Fears 'The Squeeze' by Ben Craig

Fears-'The-Squeeze'-by-Ben-Craig

Douglas Hart - former bassist of The Jesus And Mary Chain turned filmmaker - has paired up yet again with long-time collaborators Primal Scream for this performance video with extra&nbsp;flair for&nbsp;Where The Light Gets In, from their upcoming eleventh studio album&nbsp;Chaosmosis.&nbsp;The promo features a duet between vocalist&nbsp;Bobby Gillespie and singer Sky Ferreira, with plenty&nbsp;of&nbsp;nostalgic 80&#39;s glamour in the form of glittering eyeshadow and&nbsp;colourful stage visuals projected onto the singers.&nbsp;

Douglas Hart

Prettybird

Juliette Larthe

Margo Mars

Jonah Sugden

Stroma Cairns

Trevor Henen

Matt Wright

Llewellyn Harrison

Alex Parkinson

Gully

Saul Harris

Romain Foster

Ed Riley

Alister Mackie

Katy England

James Campbell

Kei Terada

Laura Dominique

Kajsa Soderland

Freya Hewitt

Joanna Papayanni

Dave Ludlam

Final Cut Audio

East London Studios

Rock

Indie

Primal Scream ft. Sky Ferreira ‘Where The Light Gets In’ by Douglas Hart

Primal Scream, Sky Ferreira - Where The Light Gets In

Yoni Lappin&#39;s multi-layered,&nbsp;leftfield and&nbsp;deadpan promo for Ben Khan&#39;s 1000, finds the singer in a waiting room with a beautiful lady where all manner of oddness occurs - bleeding statues, moving floors and an uncontrollable urge to dance.&quot;This video is about toying with a temptress&quot; says Ben. &quot;The sensation of being aware that you&#39;re dreaming, but with no control over your thoughts or the distortion and collision of those two realities.&quot;

Yoni Lappin

OB Management

Adam Lilley

Jess Bell

Dani Castro

Jason Cuddy

Kilian Drury

Guy Thompson

Sophie Gaten

Emily Bilverstone

James Rose

Jason Wallis (etc)

Outpost Vfx (elena Estevez Santos Mainly)

Tom Herron

Dirty Hit Ltd

Chuck Waite

Final Cut

Ben Khan '1000' by Yoni Lappin

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...

Ninian Doff

Pulse Films

Zak Razvi

Rachel Rumbold

Ore Okonedo

Benjamin Edwards

Ben O'Farrell

Tony Kay

Marc Covington

Craig Davis

Lucie Red

Emily Bliverstone

Nil Tomakan

Leo King

Stitch Editing

Finish

Cheryl Payne

Paul Harrison

Andy Copping

Supple Nam

String & Tins

Joceline Gabriel

Sony Music

Indie Rock

Peace 'Lost On Me' by Ninian Doff

Peace - Lost on Me

For Matt Cardle's acoustic ballad Amazing, Sean de Sparengo films the X Factor winner on an empty stage in this simple performance promo, bolstered by a cast of extras highlighting the emotion in the lyric.

Sean De Sparengo

COY!

Tiernan Han

Claudia Wass

Simone Grattarola

Dan Millar

Matt Cardle 'Amazing' by Sean de Sparengo

Matt-Cardle-'Amazing'-by-Sean-de-Sparengo

Brendan McNamee goes out and about a South London neighbourhood to shoot the promo to the Brookes Brothers' reggae/dubstep-flavoured In Your Eyes.
"The Brookes Brothers wanted a reportage feel to the clip," explains McNamee "They had an idea of a matriarch shopping for the family roast in a traditional London Market. 
"I live in Brixton and have seen the old market place become fresher and more gentrified as the years go by and liked the idea of this matriarch having a flash back to her former glory, the Brixton of the 70's. We had two interns from *Live - a charity in Brixton, Miles even shot some 2nd unit. 
"We were very lucky on this extremely tight budget to secure the services of Jade, who choreographed and danced in the piece, and Joan Hooley who played the matriarch. We didn't realize at first but she is South London royalty, not only a former cast member of East Enders but one of the writers of The Desmonds."

Brendan McNamee

Blunt Flms

James Youngs

Susanne Willett

Bobi Sanders Wellermin

James Rotimi

Debs Ramsay

Brookes Brothers 'In Your Eyes' by Brendan McNamee

Brookes-Brothers-'In-Your-Eyes'-by-Brendan-McNamee

At times like these it's good to see those wonderful folks in the City putting on a brave face and having some fun.
Wiley's team up with Mark Ronson and Daniel Merriweather for Cash In My Pocket sees Kim Gehrig taking up the reins once again, after the somewhat controversial promo for Wearing My Rolex. Wiley isn't in this one either - but this time it's a conscious decision by Kim, who taps into the zeitgeist in the way that the rather subversive Wiley virals have.
And despite the cheap video style, there's something classically Hollywood musical and escapist about it.
A bit like what happened in the last Great Depression...

Kim Gehrig on making the video for Wiley's Cash In My Pocket
"When I got the Wiley track in, I knew that this time I had to make a video where Wiley deliberately wasn't in it. The track seemed so apt for this crazy moment in the financial world and I wanted to do something that played with that.
"I had become aware of office lip dub videos and think they're quite ingenious. It seemed like the perfect track to get bankers to sing. The idea was to make the video feel as if the bankers made it themselves - how they would create a video and perform a rap, and make silly officey jokes."[/pay]
Watch: <a href="http://www.academyfilms.com/flash/#/academy/music_videos/kim_gehrig/wiley_and_mark_ronson_cash_in_my_pocket">here</a>

Academy Films

Kim Gehrig

Dom Thomas

Gregg Shoulder

Steven Hoggett

Tim Nash

Wiley’s Cash In My Pocket by Kim Gehrig

It's time to go on holiday, and take lots of photos.
But this is more downbeat drama than Dougal Wilson's "total result of a holiday" for The Streets. David Mullett's video is an interesting counterpoint to the Pigeon Detectives: it bestows the basic Everybody Wants Me with a new level of sophistication.
Shot on Ibiza, and the holiday snap visual effects work was done at Glassworks.

Black Dog Films

David Mullett

Rupert Style

Diego and To

Luke Sel

Pigeon Detectives' Everybody Wants Me by David Mullett

An impressed Brendan McNamee approached anti-folk star Emmy after a gig and offered to make her a video. Then he shot it on two rolls of recanned film - one was labelled wrong (it was 50 Daylight film, not 500T as labelled), and the other inexplicably fogged.
"So what I wanted to be a very simple in camera and edit turned into a rescue op," says Brendan. Well, he's done a highly effective salvage job. This is sweet and tender, with some handy effects work to boot.
Meanwhile Emmy will be charming the masses this week at SXSW, and in a UK artists showcase at the Bowery Ballroom in New York tonight. That's our gig of the day, live fans.

Blunt Films

Ross Smith, Joe Lea

Emmy the Great's The Wood by Brendan McNamee

The Guillemots' MC Lord MAgRAo (definitely his real name) approached Up The Resolution - that's Dom Thompson-Talbot, Merlin Nation and Griff - to co-direct the video for the first single for their new album Red, and the result is this ravishing spectacle. 
UTR's work has developed through pure animation to post-heavy work to pure live action - and they have a live action short film for two Cinematic Orchestra tracks coming out later this year. Get Over It definitely leans towards live action as well, but also has a graphic, vibrantly colourful quality - very Red in fact.
Lead singer Fyfe takes a surreal journey through his own sub-conscious, accompanied by various bandmembers, surrounded by teeming images mostly courtesy of back projections. Lovely old motor too.

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