Director of Photography

Dan Stafford-Clark

Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes reanimates the Japanese monster movie genre&nbsp;in his thoroughly entertaining video for Obey - co-starring fellow Brit rocker Yungblud.&nbsp;Taking inspiration from Mecha - giant robots controlled by humans, popularised in Japanese anime and concepts such as&nbsp;Power Rangers&nbsp;and&nbsp;Transformers - the video pits Sykes' robot, towering over the city below, against Yungblud's punkier, spikier humanoid nemesis. All hell ensues when they confront each other - building to a disarming (and hilarious) final twist.[imgtoken data:1]With the spot-on production design by Dale Oliver Slater,&nbsp;and sterling work on robot wardrobe and makeup by Natasha Lawes,&nbsp;DoP&nbsp;Dan Stafford-Clark pays homage to the Japanese source material (and possibly Beastie Boys' Intergalactic too) while adding a contemporary flair of his own.Then VFX work at Creep Post put excellent finishing touches to Sykes' vision. Talking about the meaning behind the video and the track, he says: "We consider ourselves free but only because the chains are invisible, and we are controlled in ways we don't even want to think about. They tell us how to live with a smile on their face - like shit ain't fucked up, inform us of tragic statistics like its nothing… it’s a weird world.[imgtoken data:2]"2020 is the year where we’re all being challenged by a deep and dark reality, but it’s also feeling like a time of hope and positivity. Our generation is waking up, realising what’s being conveyed, what we’re being sheltered from, and with that comes empowerment. We are being controlled in ways we don’t even want to think about, but with knowledge comes strength, and choices.. and the music video represents all of that."I wanted to add a real sense of nostalgia to the music video also to deliver such heavy lyrical content as a reminder of simpler times, and I’ve always been a huge fan of anime such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, so creating a blend of that, Power rangers and Godzilla was a super fun and creative shoot."

United Kingdom

Oliver Sykes

Craig Dixon

Sony Music Entertainment

George Nelson

David Agha-Rafei

Barry Keegan

Dale Oliver Slater

Natasha Lawes

Fin Sullivan

Chris Bell

Creep Post

Cal Gordon

Jonathan Klahr, Becanti Wijnbergh, Andrew Macleod

Anna Engeström

Joshua Hubbard

Kat Cattaneo

RCA Records

alternative metal

Alternative Rock

Bring Me The Horizon with Yungblud 'Obey' by Oliver Sykes

Bring-Me-The-Horizon--'Obey-(with-Yungblud)'-by-Oliver-Sykes

A game of grown-up ring-a-roses takes a more sinister aspect in Rob Brandon&#39;s video for his and his brother&#39;s musical alter-ego Model Man.And it becomes clear that this is very much a situation of winner takes all...&nbsp;

Rob Brandon

Ayo Davis

Mahogany Recordings, Kode Media

Mark Murdoch, Nathan Killham, Anna Peftieva

Danny Smith

Brendan Harvey

Julian Lowe

Ollie Richards

Elvire Roux

Sophie Cox

Joseph Bicknell

CHEAT

Carrie Sutton

Dance

Model Man 'Ketones' by Rob Brandon

Model-Man-'Ketones'-by-Rob-Brandon

Luke Bellis has delivered this fun new promo&nbsp;for English electropop band&nbsp;Fenech Soler&#39;s new track Kaleidoscope, which follows an&nbsp;Alice in Wonderland-inspired journey through the depths of a cavernous bed.&nbsp;We follow a young woman as she wakes up from a nightmare, finding herself in another mind-bending dream as she discovers a tunnel in her bed. Crawling through it, she is stopped in her tracks when the song&#39;s chorus kicks in, making the walls close in. Eventually she is spit back out into a spaceous&nbsp;fort made of colourful sheets, where she can finally meet the band&nbsp;responsible for&nbsp;the sweet, pop-rock tune.&nbsp;

Luke Bellis

Charlie Morrell

MindsEye

Jonny Kight

Marco Alonso

Mahalia John

Paul Wilcox

Anne Gry Skovdal

Angela Amelia

Gramercy Park Studios

Ben Rogers

Simon Hill

So Recordings

Pop Rock

Fenech Soler 'Kaleidoscope' by Luke Bellis

Fenech-Soler-'Kaleidoscope'-by-Luke-Bellis

Rob Brandon&#39;s new video for Sundara Karma&#39;s She Said&nbsp;is a 16mm montage of teens preparing for a night out in classic fashion. Drink, drugs, social media, the pub,&nbsp;sexual tension - it&#39;s all there.&nbsp;The video sways between the awkwardness and joy of youth in a nostalgic aesthetic, with&nbsp;Sundara&#39;s performance, delivered&nbsp;in a series of close-ups, sprinkled between the vignettes.

Ailsa Vanessa Tapping

Agile Films

Katie Lambert

Bailey Marks

Sam Ebrahim-riley

Lucie Red

OB Management

Elizabeth Doonan

Sony Music

Anna Peftieva

Nisa Yang

Thomas Galbally

Sundara Karma 'She Said' by Rob Brandon

Sundara-Karma-'She-Said'-by-Rob-Brandon

Much of human life is here&nbsp;in Charlie Robins&#39; video for Rag&#39;n&#39;Bone Man&#39;s Human, which revolves around the singer&#39;s heartfelt performance, but in which he becomes interchangeable with a supporting band of street cast extras, representing humanity in all its forms.&nbsp;Above all the repetitive&nbsp;cutting between RnB Man and his fellow humans,&nbsp;creates its own rhythm track for a song that could be big&nbsp;as the man himself.

Charlie Robins

Sonya Sier

Forever

Sasha Nixon

Amanda Tuckwell

Sam Ebrahim Riley

Lydia Stott

Ben Manwaring

Nil Tomakan

Lisa Zipper

Max Windows

Homespun

Richard Fearon

Laura Clayton

Dan Lowe

Lewis Kyle White

Pop, RnB

Rag'n'Bone Man 'Human' by Charlie Robins

Rag'n'bone-Man-'Human'-by-Charlie-Robins

Bands in glass houses shouldn&#39;t throw stones, but&nbsp;Tim Mattia forces The 1975 to face the stones thrown at them. A colourful and confident performance video wherein the band find themselves caged by their critics - a bold move by director and band to wear the criticisms thrown at them like a big, pink badge of honour.

Tim Mattia

Leanne Stott

London Alley

Jess Bell

Sandy Liddle

Marcia Sousa

Larry Prinz

Guy Thompson

Sam Carder

Kim Rance

Athena Paginton

Jen Kennedy

Semera Khan

Polydor Records

Nelson Oliver

Ben Keswick

Indie pop

The 1975 'The Sound' by Tim Mattia

The-1975-'The-Sound'-by-Tim-Mattia

Rollo Jackson&#39;s promo for Hot Chip&#39;s Started Right&nbsp;sees a girl in an empty bar singing the tune on a little karaoke set-up, with&nbsp;some characteristically random karaoke-style videos playing alongside the lyrics,&nbsp;featuring old cartoons, footage of sea-life,&nbsp;surfers and beach babes.As&nbsp;bits of her audition tape&nbsp;start to creep in to the mix, the boundaries between genres, and the relationship between interacting and viewing blur and fall away.&nbsp;&nbsp;A karaoke/lyric video that becomes something else altogether.&nbsp;

Rollo Jackson

Scott O'Donnell

Somesuch

Denna Cartamkhoob

Peter Arboine

James Dyer

David Agah Rafei

Sam Aminzadeh

Ruth Crawford

Aradia Crockett

Louise Hinton

Kai Van Beers

Ryan Boucher

Amy Smith

Rebeca Marcos

Jonny Bradshaw

Domino Records

Marshall Street Editors

Hot Chip 'Started Right' by Rollo Jackson

Marina Diamantis goes seriously glam&nbsp;down at the funfair in Charlotte Rutherford&#39;s delightful&nbsp;video for Blue - shot in Dreamland, the newly-renovated vintage&nbsp;amusement park in Margate.Charlotte also shot the stills for Marina&#39;s&nbsp;Froot album, and has applied her signature&nbsp;colourful and light-hearted&nbsp;style&nbsp;here - while reining-in the quirkiness of her previous work for Perfume Genius&nbsp;and others.Her interpretation of the lyrics&nbsp;-&nbsp;Marina&#39;s bid for&nbsp;one last night of fun with&nbsp;her&nbsp;ex-lover - are a mixture of&nbsp;retro-disco, high lamé, and femme fatale&nbsp;styling in a fittingly nostalgic-looking location. Plus some campy fortune teller thrown in...[imgtoken data:1]

Charlotte Rutherford

Julia Frost

Untitled

Natalie Arnett

James Davis

Amy Exton

Jess Padgham

Soki Mak

Maria Asadi

Sami Knight

Ray Stevens

Electric Theatre Collective

Jonny Epstein

Supple Nam

Atlantic Records

Marina and the Diamonds 'Blue' by Charlotte Rutherford

Luke Bellis has directed this performance video of Eliza and The Bear performing Make It On My Own, with plenty of mesmerising slow-motion sequences of the band&nbsp;in the midst of colliding elements, shot at 1000 frames per second.A true camera tech&nbsp;nerd&#39;s dream, and photographed by Dan Stafford-Clark,&nbsp;it was all filmed using the Phantom Flex and a rotating camera rig that was originally made for Kubrick&#39;s 2001: A Space Odyssey. A fitting choice, as the&nbsp;video concept was&nbsp;based around the band performing in the midst of The Big Bang.&nbsp;

Carmen Siu

Hughie Phillips

Jonathan Sidwell

Sam Riley

Tim Jordan

Francesca Prudente

Amber Childs

Ailsa Robertson

Capitol Records

Eliza And The Bear 'Make It On My Own' by Luke Bellis

Eliza-And-The-Bear-'Make-It-On-My-Own'-by-Luke-Bellis

Bison&#39;s promo sees Rosie Lowe perform the delightful electronic pop of Who&#39;s That Girl&nbsp;on a stripped-down set while wearing a diaphanous veil.It&#39;s characterised by some very cool lighting design, with the performance punctuated by pulses of blinding light - captured beautifully by&nbsp;DP Dan Stafford-Clark. Hypnotic.&nbsp;

Dave Bullivant

Academy Films

Liz Kessler

Katie Clark

Stephanie G-M

Daisy Azis

Vid Price

The Assembly Rooms

Duncan Russell

Glassworks

Polydor

Emily Tedrake

Electronica

Rosie Lowe 'Who's That Girl' by Bison

Rob Brandon reveals some aggressive tendencies in&nbsp;his hugely watchable performance&nbsp;promo for Ban All The Theives by&nbsp;Essex outfit Nothing But Thieves -&nbsp;perfectly matching the urgency of the soundtrack.

Amber Millington

Chris Benns

Jojo Copeman

Toby Tomkins

Lisa Foo

Ben Higgs, Joe Beverly, Harrison Bod, Dan Higgins, George Wood, Stephen Dominey

Rock

Indie

Nothing But Thieves 'Ban All The Music' by Rob Brandon

Nothing-But-Thieves-'Ban-All-The-Music'-by-Rob-Brandon

LAMAR+NIK&#39;s video for British pop and R&amp;B hopeful MNEK&#39;s catchy Every Little Word - it&#39;s the directing team&#39;s first UK label commission&nbsp;&ndash; is characteristically inventive and ambitious.While the camera rotates on a circular track, different characters join MNEK within the circle who personify elements of the song.&nbsp;

LAMAR+NIK

Virgin EMI

Rogan Brown

Caroline Clayton

Pop, R&B

MNEK 'Every Little Word' by LAMAR+NIK

Mnek-'Every-Little-Word'-by-Lamar+nik

Rollo Jackson&#39;s video for Real Lies&#39; World Peace is an urban tale of young love which flits between time-frames, from the mundane of a high street&nbsp;hairdressers&#39; to the seductive setting of an outdoor&nbsp;swimming pool at night.Rollo makes this timeless theme of waiting for the working week to end to have fun&nbsp;into something rich and visual. The pool is a far more evocative location for the couple&#39;s encounter&nbsp;than the usual bar or club, and it&#39;s&nbsp;impressively shot by Dan Stafford-Clark. Very nice.

Tash Tan

Edwin Metternich

Framestore

Real Lies 'World Peace' by Rollo Jackson

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