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Cynthia Lawrence

Following the videos for Traktor and Unorthodox, Ben Newman continues his collaboration with Wretch 32 on the soul belter Don't Go. 
Cleanly photographed, Newman's promo is thought-provoking and adds a touch of sophistication to Wretch's passionate performance.

Ben Newman

Pulse Films

Hannah Clark

Chris Sabogal

Jai Lusser

Tim Gibson

Carolina Svensson

Thomas Grove Carter

James Tillett

OB Management

Wretch 32 'Don't Go' by Ben Newman

You've seen the posters, now watch the video. Hot Chip, New Order's Bernard Sumner and remixers Hot City team-up for Didn't Know What Love Was, and Andreas Nilsson has directed the peach of a promo. 
All kinds of surreal stuff and nonsense of the Andreas variety involving multiple versions of the Hot Chip chaps, hairy drummers and switch-editing. But the star of the show is Barney Sumner, with shadow in tow: unashamedly middle-aged, but well cool. 
It's all part of Converse's <a href="http://www.converseblog.com/uk/music/" target="_blank">3 Artists, 1 Song</a> series - developed with creative agency Anomaly New York - as part of their bigger commitment to music. And there's a second Converse-sponsored video from Terri Timely on its way.

Furlined

Andreas Nilsson

Jason Botkin

Tamsin Glasson

Daniel Bronks

Ben Ansell

Sophie North

James Bamford

Anomaly NY

The Mill

Hot Chip, Hot City & Bernard Sumner’s Didn’t Know What Love Was by Andreas Nilsson

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Hot on the heels of her promo for Kelly Rowland, Sarah Chatfield delivers this big pop extravaganza for Diana Vickers' third single My Wicked Heart. 
Chatfield coaxes a stirling performance out of the 19 year old, all very nicely styled by Cynthia Lawrence-John.

Watch: <a href="http://www.colonelblimp.com/view-video/item4523/" target="_blank">Quicktime Movie</a>

Sarah Chatfield

Colonel Blimp

Simon Chaudoir

Shaun Fenn

David Leighton

Dan Sherwen

Robin

Claire Stubbs

Diana Vickers’ My Wicked Heart by Sarah Chatfield

After his No. 1 single Pass Out, Tinie Tempah replays his successful team-up with Tim Brown for new single Frisky - and this Tim gives the British urban video an injection of high fashion promo. 
Tinie's subterranean vibe gets invaded by couture-garbed girls - styled by Cynthia Lawrence-John. It's frisky.

Tim Brown

Denzil Armour

Mel Arter

Ernesto

James Wright

James Hackett

Tinie Tempah’s Frisky by Tim Brown

Trudy's new one for new pop cutie Pixie Lott is a big production number, featuring a whole new dance craze.
Which sort of hurts, as she explains below.

Trudy Bellinger on making the video for Pixie Lott's Mama Do
"This song has an infectious clap that runs throughout and I wanted to visually reference the clapping and embellish it as the unique hook of the video.
"As this is Pixie's debut video it was important for the label to show off all her incredible talents - she is stunning, and a brilliant dancer. I wanted the choreography to really stand out as being fresh and different. The clapping was the obvious starting point to create a fusion of pat-a-cake, capoeira and physical theatre. In order to achieve this fusion of styles, I worked with two choreographers: Paul Roberts for his slick sharpness, and Kate Pearson for her innovative physical theatre.
"The fusion really worked, and after two days of intense rehearsals we had an amazingly tight piece, although we had problems with the twenty dancers being covered in bruises! In order to get the attitude across and the intensity with the choreography they really had to slap each other. We had to change the styling to hide all the bruises, particularly on the thighs.
"The concept was also brought about by the lyrics, which are about sneaking out in the night and getting up to no good without your parents knowing. The idea of her crawling through her bed into this other world made it fantastical and gave me creative licence to have a few surreal elements. The bed scene was made up of thirty or so mattresses inside a tent of giant silk. The light was amazing, and once inside the bed set it felt so calming and peaceful. This serenity really reflects in Pixie's performance in this section.
"Through a door in the bed we see Pixie and the girls arrive through a locker into a locker room where they start to prepare themselves for the clap off. I shot at MC Motors and as this location is used a lot, I didn't want it to look like other videos but liked the textures and the structure. We built a locker room with a leopard print floor, a boudoir/girls cloakroom with a pink perspex floor, leopard print drapes and a circular red leather pouffe.
"The contrast of the hot pink next to the red brought a contemporary fashion edge to the video. Using red and pink neons sewn together with lots of pipes and industrial props, the main dance area was transformed into a more power station or factory feel with a club edge creating an exciting backdrop to the clap off.
"Denzil Armour lit it and Sam Brown did second unit, whilst Mark Adcock shot Bolex enabling me to get coverage of the six sets and choreography in one day. The drama of the clap-off was created shooting at 100fps and speed ramping and jump cutting. And Ducati supplied all the bikes for the guys as well as Pixie's white one, which we added her logo to."

Merge@Crossroads

Trudy Bellinger

Hera King

Alicia Farren

Barry Wasserman

James H

Kevin Ford

Karen Alder

Sam Jones

Henry

Dan Curwin

Pixie Lott’s Mama Do by Trudy Bellinger

Super-duper video for star-in-the-making Vanessa Brown by Ross Cooper and Bugsy Riverbank Steel, aka OneInThree.
Ross and Bugsy bring all their usual graphic invention to an idea based on the song's break-up theme - a revolving removals box, revealing different aspects, and different sizes, of VV. As they explain below, they applied typical invention to make it happen properly.
While all this might overwhelm some aspiring pop stars, it feels like pretty much the ideal vehicle for someone who is going to be described as vibrant and vivacious an awful lot in the next few months. She's great in this.

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OneInThree on making the video for VV Brown's Leave
"We had a really fun shoot, Vanessa is a really fantastic natural performer, even when being spun round all day in a variety of differently sized MDF boxes.
"Apart from the background plate of the apartment, the shoot was focused on a series of set builds on motorized turntables which we synchronised to the audio track. Every time we swapped boxes we used a plumb-bob on a ceiling pulley to centre our boxes on the turntables.

"We also built are own amateur motion control rig using a piece of sponge stuck to the turntable, as it span round it hit a computer mouse which triggered one of four Quicktime movies to play that acted as our digi-slate and audio playback. We needed 4 movies for one each for side of the box, depending on the way she needed to be facing at the specific point in the track.
"Every time she turned away from camera she had time to compose herself and find a new pose, she enjoyed herself so much that she was really disappointed when we wrapped."

OneInThree

Sarah Tognazzi

Daniel Trapp

James Banford

Fernando Regin

Carmen Montanez

V V Brown’s L.E.A.V.E.! by OneInThree

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Although it's a bit confusing, him being a Last Shadow Puppet and a Rascal (and their records being around at the same time), here is all the evidence you need that Miles Kane is not hanging on the coattails of his more famous Arctic Monkey mate.
Straight-talking, atmospheric, powerful performance vid (with merest hint of storyline) for a cracking Rascals number by Draw Pics' new boy David Allain - it's excellently lit by Ross Mclennan and finely edited by Darren Baldwin.

David Allain has also just completed a quite different, very graphic pop performance for VV Brown - with animation contributions from Dirty UK.
Good versatile work, young David...

Draw Pictures

David Allain

Paul Carter

Marcus Domleo

Nikki Porter

Glassworks

Supple Nam

The Rascals and V V Brown by David Allain 

More superior, hard-to-resist pop with a colour-coded video by Sarah Chatfield. Like her pal Kinga's video for Katy Perry, Annie has her girlfriends to back her up - although this time they have clothes on.
And lovely clothes too. Sarah is now back working with Chris Sweeney on their second big film for YSL's next menswear collection. Of course the fashion label has been rocked by the death at the weekend of it's founder, Yves Saint Laurent - the designer who <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/02/europe/menkes.php">redefined women's fashion</a>.
He would probably have approved of those little black dresses...

Georgina Filmore

Adam Frisch

Jamie Wilkinson

Golden Square Post

Annie's I Know Your Girlfriend Hates Me by Sarah Chatfield

So it's come to this - ironic Eighties-style soft rock that sounds like a cross between Van Halen and Bonnie Tyler. And it's so damn good. 
In the circumstances, it's not surprising that Kinga Burza's video for Ladyhawke (see, more irony) is a repository of Eighties video ideas, like a Bonnie Tyler video directed by Russell Mulcahy without the massive budget. Or something. 
Loving it over here - but hope the Partizan link works better for you than it does for me.

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