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Filmed on location in Los Angeles and Paris, we meet a succession of eccentric people expressing themselves to the full in Jonas &amp; François' promo for Labrinth's Express Yourself. 
Pop Art meets The Simpsons with a colourful and quirky effect...

Jonas&François

Jules Dieng

Larkin Seiple

prod and SFX

Labrinth 'Express Yourself' by Jonas & François

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Surrender Monkeys

Cosmo Campbell

The Kooks 'Saboteur' by Surrender Monkeys

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And this has quite a unnerving, Fargo-esque climax too.

Jeppe Kolstrup

Rasmus Heise

Thor Brammer Jacobsen

Jan Erik Stig

Jens Høll

Lasse Marcussen/Cameo Film

Vinnie Who's Accident Or Will by Jeppe Kolstrup 

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White Lies <a href="http://www.myspace.com/whitelies" target="_blank">myspace</a>

Jonas &amp; Francois

Antoine Marteau

Vicnet Vierron

Guillaume Faure

Benjamin Benhamou

Ross Anderson

White Lies’ Bigger Than Us by Jonas & Francois

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For new single Always Loved A Film, Underworld team-up with directing duo Syrine &amp; Pej who unleash this '4 old skateboarders tearing up America' raucous road movie. Its a baby-boomer Cinnamon Chasers - and at least one of those old rascals is skating for real.
Syrine &amp; Pej are recent signings at El Niño - where you can also catch their video for Monomaniax' Sexy Turismo. Which is sexy.

Syrine &amp; Pej

Syrine & Pej

Theo Theodose

Underworld’s Always Love A Film by Syrine & Pej - just signed to El Niño

MGMT buy a big box - which leads to all sorts of surrealism.

Mathematic in Paris were responsible for the visual effects, employing After Effects, Flame, Maya, to create the 3D transformations of the box in a mere three weeks.

MGMT’s Its Working by So-Me

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Funny yet slightly disturbing. A bit like a hung Parliament.

Megaforce

Jules Dleng

Walter Morillo

Tame Impala’s Solitude Is Bliss by Megaforce

Contains disturbing scenes. Especially for Mick Hucknall.

Romain Gavras

Andre Chemetoff

Mourad Belkeddar

M.I.A’s Born Free by Romain Gavras

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For Kid Cudi's Pursuit Of Happiness, directing collective Megaforce yet again display an excellent knack for the surreal - with seamless camera trickery, apparent zero gravity and otherworldliness in what is all in all, a very imaginative promo.

Damian Acevedo

Kid Cudi’s Pursuit Of Happiness by Megaforce

Some herbal tea from Air, in Moon Safari mode, and Mrzyk &amp; Moriceau, and probably several other clever people based in Paris. 
Not brand new by any means, but a good one for those stressful moments.

Mrzyk & Moriceau

Air's Sing Sang Sung by Mrzyk & Moriceau

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We've had title sequence videos galore. Now, ingeniously, is the 'end credits' video, for the Justice's Lenny Kravitz remix by Keith Schofield. 
Which includes Keith completely nailing the whole trouble with end credits, and possibly when it all really started getting out of hand. He's created the final yards of a mid-Eighties movie, with a Michael J Fox-type lead guy in trademark puffa jacket. It's perfectly pitched - and the credits roll on and on... 
Superb. You can see the version with more 'movie' on Keith's website - and, of course, you can all have all sorts of fun namechecking...

Keith Schofield

Steve Buchanan

Xavier De Nauw

Lenny Kravitz & Justice’s Let Love Rule by Keith Schofield

Slick affair by Jonas and François with Ben Hudson and his buddy Kanye going all supernova all over a luxury LA hotel.The super starman FX work was done at Machine Molle, and it&#39;s a big contrast with Jonas and François&#39;s other new video, for Depeche Mode&#39;s <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfmfuseaction=vids.individual&amp;videoid=58727482">Peace</a>.

Jonas & François

Mourad Belkedder

Arnaud Potier

Arne Knudson

Karen Baccouche

Machine Molle

Dan Curwin

Mr Hudson feat. Kanye West’s Supernova by Jonas & François

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The fact there&#39;s something quite familiar about Eva Husson&#39;s video for The Presets does not make it any less good.There are echoes of both Billy Elliot and West Side Story here, but no matter, it builds into something distinctive and special. Which is exactly what&#39;s needed for a song this heartfelt by Kris Moyes&#39;s brother&#39;s band.

Eva Husson

Warren Kommers

The Presets’ If I Know You by Eva Husson

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Taking karaoke to a whole new painful level, the new Metronomy video by directing team Megaforce have released the bouncing ball from the singing machine to wreak havoc with the band and their pals with increasing variation, and lots more interesting stuff to boot. It's marvellous.
As we find out below, Megaforce are four young French fellows from graphic design and advertising and music backgrounds. They've swiftly established a reputation for making videos with extremely clever VFX, mustered from really not much more than sheer brainpower (and possibly firewood): we're talking about Naïve New Beaters' Live Good and Late Of The Pier's Heartbeat.
These boys are going places...

Leo from Megaforce talks to Promo about the video for Metronomy's A Thing For Me
? Great idea to use the karaoke ball to cause mayhem in the real world - how did you come up with it And did you prepare each shot and all the details - like the misspelled words - for the treatment, or did that come at a later stage
We always start with a big brainstorming. We throw some concept on the table and then we discuss which one fits better to the band and got the potential to be interesting for more than three minutes. So we started with that karaoke idea, and as we had a very low budget, we didn't know if we would be able to find a good place to shoot. So we first wrote graphical ideas that could work on green screen in case of a missed location emergency. Around 20% only of the project were written on the treatment here: <a href="http://spamstudio.com/megatreatment_metronomy.html">here</a> and <a href="http://spamstudio.com/idees_metronomy.html">here</a>. As you see, it was very much a work in progress. Then we searched very hard for a good place to shoot it. We wanted a different set for each line of the song, so we decided to look for big bourgeois houses, and we finally found that amazing house in Champagne. We adapted our ideas to the location and decided to throw out some graphical ideas and replace them by narrative ones - like the ball chasing the band.
? There are some convincing reactions from the band and their friends to the bouncing ball. How did you make them react at the right moment And how did you make objects (like the globe) move
We just designated who had to react to which word, and then we shot singing the song acapella. The ball is always CG. We used a real ball only for light references. Objects moved thanks to nylon strings (that you can actually see on the "Uno" box).
? You also have intriguing tricks like the girl falling out of shot, revealing herself behind (you did something similar in your Late Of The Pier video), and the band and girls doing forward rolls towards camera... how did you achieve these FX
We always do some tests before with our own cameras. Sometimes it works better on the shoot (like the girl falling and revealing herself), sometimes it's better in the test. For the girl revealing herself, it was pretty tough to do, because it's a motion control technique made without motion control material. Basically, we first shot a plate: the travelling across the living room. Then we shot the girl with a small green screen at every place we wanted to inlay her in post (for light matching reasons), and we had to film her with the same speed of travelling as the plate, so we put some marks on the floor to check if the cameraman had good timing. See what we mean
? You have some good misspellings - like "Maya art". Did you do those yourself, or need some help from a native English speaker And the speech bubbles - are they real or were they added in post
For the misspellings, we wrote them by ourselves, but we checked with our rep in UK to be sure it worked. The bubbles are for real, they were hung by nylon strings. The type is added in post.
? When and where did you shoot the video
Late October, in Champagne.
? Who exactly are Megaforce I believe there are four of you - so do each of you have special duties (or powers) How did you come to team-up
Charles and Raphael are freelance graphic designers and owned a studio (www.spamstudio.com), Clement is a freelance graphic designer by himself (http://clementgallet.com) - don't try his website, he never finds time to do it. I (Leo) work as a creative in an advertising agency and do some tracks in an independent label called Chinese man Records (www.myspace.com/leolebug). The cover of my vinyl (Le Pudding) was made by spamstudio by the way. We've been working together since mid-2007. I worked on a first video for Naïve New Beaters by myself (Bang Bang). Then we teamed up on the second video for this band, Live Good. It's not really easy to define who does what. Hello mum, look I'm on the Internet!

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