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Jessica Kell

A woman tries her best to hide an unusual medical affliction, in Ian Roderick Gray's video-cum-short film for On Man.&nbsp;Exploring discrimination and isolation, the video&nbsp;follows the&nbsp;story of a woman who has grown a third eye on her temple, and the derision she experiences from society as a result of her condition."On Man wanted to create something that would work as both a music video and as a film, with the song almost acting as a score," explains Ian Roderick Gray.&nbsp;"From the beginning, we wanted to avoid the tropes you often encounter in horror films or sci-fi. It was very important to us that the eye felt like a medical affliction and not a mutation or something you might find in the X-Men films."[imgtoken data:1]The concept takes a heartfelt approach to the narrative, never stepping into parody or overly bizarre territory, and is anchored by the visual effects work on the eye.&nbsp;"I was lucky enough to work with the incredible VFX supervisor Puff Pisanwalerd, and she put huge amounts of work into the design of the eye, to create something that felt like it could be a natural growth or an unusual condition. The target was to make people feel uncomfortable when they looked at it and then feel guilty about that discomfort. We knew very quickly, that if the third eye didn’t work, the music video would also fail."Luckily, that worry was unfounded, as the video works perfectly, ending on a hopeful, optimistic note. Brilliant work from Ian Roderick Gray and team.&nbsp;

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Andrew Gannon

Ian Roderick Gray

Adham Hunt

Carrie Sutton

On Man

Will Courtney

Anthony Dias

Rebecca Murray

Laura Prast

Tom Reid

Connor Hammill

Lucy Williams

Suzi Battersby

Tom Knowles

The Joint

Puff Pisanwalerd

Andy Gibbins

Richard Mason

Katie Clarkson-Hill

Houndstooth

Singer-songwriter

On Man 'Worse Than It Seems' by Ian Roderick Gray

On-Man-'Worse-Than-It-Seems'-by-Ian-Roderick-Gray

Ian Roderick Gray was nominated for a UKMVA for his last collaboration with Charlie Winston - a live video&nbsp;of the singer-songwriter performing <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2020/05/04/charlie-winston-lost-memory-ian-roderick-gray/64634" target="_blank">Lost In The Memory</a> at a villa in the South of France. Now they collaborate again in another memorable location - La Frette Studios in Paris - for Here I Am.As the director&nbsp;explains below, the idea was to document the recording process of the song at La Frette and give it the dynamism of a music video. Subtitled, 'The Anatomy Of The Song', Gray has demonstrated how layers of sounds and intrumentation were added to the track via a simple method of a continual circular camera motion.&nbsp;Starting with Winston laying down the vocal track, he is then joined by each accompanying musician in turn to build the sound of Here I Am: tabla player&nbsp;Aref Durvesh, singers&nbsp;Maria Marolany and Marieline Marolany - and then finally legendary cora player&nbsp;Toumani Diabaté.[imgtoken data:1]

Grayscale Productions

Alfred Thirolle

Raphaël Dougé

Clement Duroux

Johnny Thorpe

Glassworks VFX

Athene Xenia

Chloe Ensor

Afishant

Charlie Winston 'Here I Am (The Anatomy Of A Song)' by Ian Roderick Gray

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Ian Roderick Gray's enigmatic and gripping video for British producer On Man centres around a disfigured young man locked into a nightmarish, perpetual pursuit by unseen assailants.It takes visual cues from the unsettling body horror of Cronenberg and combines them with the dark and surreal atmosphere of Lynch to create a haunting visual that matches the ominous tone of Squares and Triangles.

Andrew Harvey-Gannon

Red Girl FX

Charlie Baker

Alternative

On Man 'Squares And Triangles' by Ian Roderick Gray

On Man - Squares and Triangles (feat. F-M-M-F)

With the UK general election in a matter of days, Paul Casey and Richard Jobson - aka&nbsp;Blok - have created&nbsp;the music video for Plan B’s First Past the Post, to get the message across in a track that aims to explain a part of the voting system that&nbsp;few fully understand, and ram home the point that every vote counts - if you vote tactically.Ben Drew (aka Plan B) wrote and recorded the track in a matter of days just a few weeks ago, to talk about a voting system that he himself has only recently&nbsp;investigated&nbsp;(see below) and what he thinks this election is really about - Brexit, of course. Drew wants to mobilise young voters into participating in the general election on December 12th and having their voice heard.But that gave Casey and Jobson just a week to&nbsp;take the concept - and visualize the various discussion points in Drew's lyrics -&nbsp;through production, post and delivery. Remarkably, they have achieved their goal with a video that illustrates those points through a rapidfire mix of&nbsp;fake newscasts, dramatic sequences, political satire (where Drew plays a cynical politico of undetermined affiliation), info-graphics, and Plan B's own raw and hard-hitting performance.&nbsp;One of Drew's main themes - that's arguably been underreported in mainstream media - is that Brexit has made this election a conflict between&nbsp;generations, with Britain's older generation looking to the past, and thereby jeopardizing the younger generation's future.&nbsp;Blok make this a crucial part of the video, with symbolism of a domestic argument over dinner where a&nbsp;dining room table splits apart - Paul Casey says he has drawn that from personal experience - and Drew's preferred solution out of our national mess comes through loud and clear.&nbsp;It ends on perhaps the most incendiary image of all - an old lady holding a Your Vote Matters mug sticking two fingers at the camera. Expect to see that a few times between now and Thursday.Blok have a history of working directly with artists, with their recent films for Novelist No Weapons, as well as Meridian Dan's Vegan Chat. But they have achieved something really special here - a video with a short lifespan but with the potential to have a real, longterm impact.[imgtoken data:1]

Paul Casey

Richard Jobson

Blok

Dark Energy Films

Dave Horner

Alex Agopian

Jess Celis

Noah Demeuldre

Violetta Kassapi

Pete Hills

Chris Hailes

Asad Naveed

Kivanc Sezen

Dave Ludlam

Mark Slobodian

Atlantic Records

Hip Hop

Plan B 'First Past The Post' by Blok

PLAN B - FIRST PAST THE POST

Ian Roderick Gray helms an action-packed tribute to classic movie dance routines for Charlie Winston&#39;s The Weekend, orchestrating a continuous shot through different set-ups on a film set with clever&nbsp;sleight-of-hand.Most impressive is how some characters appear to change before your eyes, as Gray&#39;s constantly moving camera travels through time as well as space, and always staying true to the concept.

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