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Bex Crofton Atkins

Dizzee and his pals are gathering on the streets of London, all hooded-up, and the message is clear from the BBM message he sends at the start: RIOT!But not quite like the one from a couple of&nbsp;years ago. Dizzee has got together with Ian Robertson to make his video for Love This Town (featuring Teddy Sky) to toy&nbsp;with viewer expectations, and produce a comic riff on the 2011 which manages to be&nbsp;wacky, warmhearted and,&nbsp;most importantly,&nbsp;very funny.Just when you think that this group of masked marauders must be about to cause mayhem in London&#39;s mean&nbsp;streets, they commit another outrageous act of boy scout-style neighbourliness.&nbsp;Dizzee may be the only UK artist at the moment with&nbsp;the charm, credibility and arguably the wit to pull this off. He&#39;s found a perfect collaborator in Ian Robertson, who showed what he could do with comedic narratives for Duke Dumont and Skream, and once again gets maximum comedy value from various set-pieces. Particularly good is a feelgood replay of the mugged Asian student incident from 2011. LOL.&nbsp;

United Kingdom

Ian Robertson

Corin Taylor

Tamsin Glasson

Colonel Blimp

Richard Stewart

Beatrice Warren

Kerry Green

Laura Johnstone

Claire McGonigal

Final Cut

Julien Biard

Finish

Chris Bristow

Munky

John Moule

Pop, Urban

Dizzee Rascal 'Love This Town' ft. Teddy Sky by Ian Robertson

Dizzee Rascal - Love This Town ft. Teddy Sky

A man has a portable cassette player growing inside of him which is constantly playing Duke Dumont&#39;s Need U (100%) in Ian Robertson&#39;s brilliant video for the UK DJ/Producer.Everywhere the man goes, as the track plays, people around him break out into a dance - his fellow shopper at the local store, his girlfriend, the postman, the waitress at the diner, the fat guy at the bus stop...In what is a simple but brilliant idea (with a great finale), Ian explains the ideas behind his treatment:Can you talk us through the brief you got from the label and how you responded to that in your treatment &quot;The label wanted an upbeat narrative promo, but the brief was pretty open. The idea was inspired by the humming vocal in the track; it sounds like it&#39;s coming from inside someone and the catchy beat just makes you want to move. So I thought it would be fun if a woman was pregnant with a stereo and she was hassled by people dancing to the tune from her womb.&quot;The idea of giving birth to a stereo seemed to freak people out too much so I decided to make it about a guy with stereo lodged in his belly. You don&#39;t often see a surgery scene in a dance video so that seemed like a fun thing to try!&quot;What was it that drew you to the aesthetic you chose for the spot &quot;The label wanted the promo to have a summery feel so they suggested shooting in Los Angeles. This created a wonderfully vibrant colour pallet. Duke Dumont said the track was inspired by 80s and 90s house music, so we brought a hint of nostalgia into the styling; for instance the tape deck and costumes hark back to the good old days!&quot;Which was your favourite scene to work on Why &quot;I loved throwing our lead actor, Rique, into more and more uncomfortable situations and just filming his pitch-perfect downbeat reactions. I particularly enjoyed watching him squirm around the backflipping guys on the street corner, as well as our bus stop man and head-bobbing supermarket worker.&quot;All our dancers brought different personality to their role, making each scenario so distinctive. There were just too many to fun moments to name! I spent most of the shoot laughing behind the monitor&quot;.What was the most challenging part of the production &quot;Production went very smoothly seeing as we had only a few days to prep. I did find the hospital scenes quite challenging; it had some more complex blocking with heavy art direction and never enough time! Luckily the crew was super efficient and pro so we got it done&quot;.https://www.youtube.com/watchv=FnJIb4A-DuY

Offkey Creatives

Sarah Tognazzi

Steve Whiteley

Paul Bock

Cale Finot

Jeremy White

Miki Fujika

Hugo Villasenor

Thomas Grove Carter

Houmam Abdallah

Caroline Clayton

Duke Dumont ft A*M*E 'Need U (100%)' by Ian Robertson

Duke-Dumont-ft-A*M*E-'Need-U-(100%)'-by-Ian-Robertson

There's a suitable blend of comedy and Shining-style creepiness, including several unsavoury characters, as Pro, Tim and Joe set about satirising of the fame game - nicely photographed by Luke Palmer and art directed by Anna Rhodes.

Tim &amp; Joe

Arri Media

Jamie Durand

Anna Rhodes

FAB Sound

Cut+Run

The Mill

James Hackett

Sam Jones

Luke Morrison

Professor Green 'At Your Inconvenience' by Tim & Joe

Casper Balslev's new video for Fenech Soler is a performance video made epic by the use of lighting, colour, smoke, slow-motion and all-round tremendous photography. 
It's a gorgeous-looking video, shot in Copenhagen, that hotbed of great image-making.

Caspar Balslev

Thor Brammer Jacobsen

Paul McKee

Hello Love

Sebastian Winterø

Aleksander Hørup

Casper Nilsson

Amber Ross

Fenech Soler’s Demons by Casper Balslev

Fenech-Soler’s-Demons-by-Casper-Balslev

Nicholas Bentley directs this enchanting promo for rising stars Fenech Soler. Shot in the pretty Norfolk countryside, the cinematic locations are complimented with a powerful band performance and engaging narrative. 
"Shooting outside, in the UK is always a little bit of a gamble - usually if you want it to be sunny it's dull and if you want it to be rainy it's dry" explains Bentley. "Luckily we had really good weather to shoot the promo and to me, parts don't even look like the UK.
"The band had already started establishing an aesthetic that mixed masks with a more futuristic palette for their stage costumes. I really liked their look and wanted to build on it for this video. Previously they focused on performance and were keen to make something that pushed them a little bit more by creating something that wasn't overly literal to the lyrical content and moved away from a full on performance video.
"I pitched an idea that took the emotional undertones of the song, their styling and an aspect of performance to create something more suggestive and ambiguous.
"The two day shoot was pretty full on with a number of unit moves to places with tricky/limited access. Luckily I had a really good, compact crew who all dug in and worked it more like a short than a hectic promo.
"We shot it all on the 7D which seemed to hold up well considering it's limitations. In fact I don't think we would have been able to do the unit moves and coverage if we used a bigger set up".

Watch: <a href="http://www.gasandelectric.co.uk/content/client_tvcs/client134/" target="_blank">here</a>

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