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KC Locke directs an explosive&nbsp;promo for M Huncho &amp; Headie One's Warzone.&nbsp;Deep in the trenches, we see the artists perform amongst the chaos of conflict and confrontation, paying no mind to the dangers of the battlefield around them.&nbsp;"When Huncho and team approached me about the Warzone track and the brief of the video feeling like a WW1 movie I was instantly into writing something explosive!," explains Locke.&nbsp;"Being a big fan of 1917, I really wanted to try create a video which had some progressive longer takes with seamless transitions like 1917 but in our own way."The high-octane concept&nbsp;presents an unexpected backdrop for the visuals, and the special effects and quickfire edit keep the project punchy and snappy throughout.&nbsp;"I’m really having fun at the moment combining in camera effects with carefully planned seamless CGI&nbsp;transitions, and world building to make each video I do feel different and new, while always setting creative challenges for the team! This video for us was a showcase of multidisciplinary techniques woven together seamlessly in our own way with a modern take on a WW1 WARZONE." Locke continued.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]The location is another key part of the visual, a maze of trenches which create a minacious, cinematic atmosphere.&nbsp;"The location was always going to be the most important thing for this type of creative, once Lewis Nicholson (producer) discovered this amazing location, we knew we had stuck gold and had the perfect backdrop for our video."The art team - lead by Jenny O'Sullivan - did an amazing job on bringing this location to life with so many details and texture along with the SFX team who really came with a bang!"I put a lot of time into prep with a pre-decided scene layout &amp; structure for the video. I left important pockets in the edit in particular scenes for Jamil Shaukat (editor) to really shine and bring out the performance and musicality of the edit, which as a result gives a really interesting and progressive feel to the video between scenes. Some scenes breath while the choreography of explosions, SFX&nbsp;and camera moves live, while other scenes are cut together quicker and seamlessly showcasing the artists performance and story."This musicality we tried to carry across every scene of the video - for example bombs exploding on certain bass and beats within the song, to CGI transitions linked to lyrics and gun fire on adlibs which I feel really help immerse you in the video."[imgtoken data:2]

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Jenny O’Sullivan

Charlie Morris

Ruby Diamond

KC Locke

Lewis Nicholson

Marisa Garner Associates

Swords & Eagles

Berni Shaw

Noha Hussein

Nick Platt

Matthew Emvin Taylor

Marisa Garner

Ella Taylor-Palfrey

Luke Goodrich

Billy Davey

Jamil Shaukat

Alex Gregory

No.8

Lmntlefx

Armoury FX

M Huncho & Headie One 'Warzone' by KC Locke

M-Huncho-&-Headie-One-'Warzone'-by-Kc-Locke

Directing duo Meeks &amp; Frost team up with&nbsp;Birmingham rapper M1llionz for this atmospheric staging of his track Pedestrian, for Apple Music's The Agenda Live series.Initially situated in a box room, being viewed by passers-by, to represent the trappings of fame, M1llionz finds freedom in a&nbsp;heightened version of a more familiar&nbsp;world, where aspects of streetlife are skillfully recreated within a large warehouse space.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Meeks & Frost

Amara Rossell

Greatcoat Films

Kareem Adeshina

Simon Oxley

Simon Fisher

Millie Wrench

Emily Mulkerrins

Paolo De Battista

Sam Meyer

Emily Mcney

Mark Stewart

Anthony Hensman

Chantelle Pantelides

Nayaab Tania

Leon Carlton

Glassworks

Grime

M1llionz 'Pedestrian' (The Agenda Live) by Meeks & Frost

M1llionz-'Pedestrian-(the-Agenda-Live)-'-by-Meeks-&-Frost

Headie One plays a bank robber with imaginative attitude to his accumulated wealth, in DAPS's visually arresting video for Pound Signs.DAPS gets pulses racing from the start with a heist, where Headie gets heavy on the approaching cops. Then he heads to the laundrette and is literally rolling in £50 notes, before a high stakes card game reaches an electrifiying climax.Employing a clever use of camera movement and a fluidity across the visuals, DoP Sam Meyer's cinematography elevates the ambitious concept, and a suitably gritty grade helps tie everything together.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]

DAPS

Tony Longe

Creativs Label

Cr8tive Row

Nadya Persaud

Chris Malin

James Tilyard

Steve Cameron

Charlotte Toon

Raya Dias

Michelle Vernege

Post Calton

Kinan Chabani

Mitrofanov Dmitriy, Daniel Longe

Headie One

Elena Argiros

Relentless

Inga Veronique

Hip Hop

Headie One 'Pound Signs' by DAPS

Headie-One-'Pound-Signs'-by-Daps

A classic band road trip descends into a night of kidnapping and burglary, in The Rest's adrenaline-fuelled promo for Beabadoobee.&nbsp;Maintaining the same late 90's/early 00's aesthetic as her&nbsp;videography to date, the video for Cologne&nbsp;has a dark, dreamlike aesthetic, and is cast&nbsp;with a group of the artist's real-life friends.DoP&nbsp;Sam Meyer complements the gritty action film aesthetic with high contrast lighting and plenty of shadows, and a colour palette that leans towards cool blues and grimy greens, staying true to the genre.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

The Rest

Ersan Beskardes

Pulse Films

Nnena Nwakodo

Kevin Cheung

Elle Lotherington

Lucy Mcney

Tony Shults

Jakob Gierse

Patricia Villirillo

Jonny Thorpe

Spirit View

Jamie B. Chambers

Sonny Horwell

Suzie Walsh

Jon Moore

Rose Lucas

Indie

Beabadoobee 'Cologne' by The Rest

Beabadoobee-'Cologne'-by-The-Rest

Raja Virdi directs his latest video for regular collaborator Holly Humberstone - another example of the artist delivering a charismatic performance in a scenario&nbsp;of unfolding dramatic tension.&nbsp;In fact, for The Walls Are Way Too Thin, Raja and Holly are channelling&nbsp;Die Hard, no less. We find Holly frantically crawling through a vent, having seemingly set the place on fire.Yippee-aye-oh...[imgtoken data:1]

Raja Virdi

Frankie Willcock

PHASE

Scarlett Anderson

Ashton Born

Anthony Neale

Amy Holden-Brown

Emma Regan

Connor Coolbear

Electric Theatre Collective

Oliver Whitworth

Tk-fx

Mouthpiece

Semera Khan

Polydor / Interscope / Dark Room

Holly Humberstone 'The Walls Are Way Too Thin' by Raja Virdi

Holly Humberstone - The Walls Are Way Too Thin (Official Video)

Dir. Lx directs the latest edition of Apple Music's The Agenda series, for Central Cee's Ruby.&nbsp;With Ruby sampling Foreigner's iconic Cold As Ice, we are presented with abstract snapshots of tales from Central Cee's tough neighbourhood in West London, including a young girl's story, as she is shown caught up in a cycle of abuse and neglect.&nbsp;With the rapper's prodigious storytelling skills exploring the&nbsp;pressures faced by underprivileged youth in Ruby, Dir Lx lends his cinematic, trademark style to the concept, layered with glitchy overlays and a frenetic edit style.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Dir. Lx

Gil Kolirin

Jen Woodhouse

Asia Rose Kilgallon

Janice Mahenge

Simmi Virdee

Sam Hardy

Caroline Morin

Wash

Denova Media

Kya Brame

Las Bandas Be Brave

Central Cee 'Ruby' by Dir. Lx

Central-Cee-'Ruby'-by-Dir.-Lx

Raja Virdi directs and shoots the first music video in a new campaign, for regular collaborator Holly Humberstone.The suitably haunting visual for Haunted House is centred on&nbsp;Holly's family home, with both of her parents making guest appearances.The video is built from surrealistic elements, with a dark and dangerous aesthetic shining through in the cinematography, whilst a&nbsp;custom rig which spins Holly upside down adds an otherworldly vibe to the concept.&nbsp;A perfect amalgamation of art direction, lighting, camera movement and Virdi's top-notch directing skills, this is a brilliant interpretation of the stirring track.

Ryan Harvey

Oliver Blair

Lewis Morgan

Sebastian Kudanowski

Jim Brown

Georgina Hamed

Fjr Crew

Deep End Management

Polydor / Dark Room Interscope

Beau Pritchard-James

Holly Humberstone 'Haunted House' by Raja Virdi

Holly Humberstone - Haunted House (Official Video)

Quba Tuakli's video for Brixton-based Turkish artist Emir Taha takes us on a surreal trip in the back of a South London minicab.In the video for&nbsp;Katakulli - the lead track on his latest EP Hoppa Pt 2 - Taha encounters a&nbsp;larger-than-life cab driver from his homeland when he enters a taxi heavily flavoured with&nbsp;Turkish culture.Warding off any bad vibes with his ancient Nazar beads, Taha heads off on this journey into the unknown, a likeably dazed figure at the centre of&nbsp;Tuakli's wacky visual comedy. He calmly takes the changing surroundings, and the&nbsp;stern lecture he's getting his opinionated elder driving the cab&nbsp;- even when he finds his cab has detoured from South London and finds itself in&nbsp;outer space.These things happen when&nbsp;you take the wrong exit on the South Circular...[imgtoken data:1]

Quba Tuakli

Joseph J Goldman

Caviar

Daniella Manca

Ash Teague

Joe Mulvihil

Pieter Snyman

Louis Simonon

Berfin Ağca Karakurt

Lewis Munro

James Duffy

Max Smith

Sam Crook

Steve Wells

Lane Casting

Jamie O'Donnell

Nomad Editing Company

Felipe Szulc

Martin Goodwin

Rob Peacock

Margaux Baruch

Hoppa Records

Emir Taha 'Katakulli' by Quba Tuakli

emir taha - Katakulli (Official Music Video)

Dir. Lx collaborates with long&nbsp;time creative partners&nbsp;DC &amp; Knucks in the impressive promo for Bobby &amp; Rowdy.&nbsp;The third in a trio of releases for Dir. Lx and DC - following&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2020/05/21/dc-neighbourhood-dir-lx/64919">Neighbourhood</a> and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2020/07/28/dc-tears-sweat-blood-dir-lx/65834">Tears Sweat Blood</a>&nbsp;- this video takes to an abandoned underground station, where a high-energy&nbsp;performance section is intercut with an abstract narrative.&nbsp;Interspersed with black and white portrait vignettes - celebrating Lx's fondness for stills and photography - the promo cleverly pays homage to classic videos in the genre, whilst showing up with a fresh, contemporary aesthetic.&nbsp;

Arnold Peters

Joss Garnet-Lawson

Daisy Dean

Vaneza Londono

Yoomin Lee

Patricia Odje

Will Lyte

DC X Knucks 'Bobby & Rowdy' by Dir. Lx

Dc-X-Knucks-'Bobby-&-Rowdy'-by-Dir.-Lx

When he's not being dragged down the street, South London troubadour&nbsp;Joey Maxwell mulls over life's struggles&nbsp;in a deserted pub, in&nbsp;Amitybloc's video for Too Much. But there is no keeping this feisty&nbsp;fellow down for long.The fun times start to return once he meets up with 'Auntie' in the shopping precinct, and presents her with a brand new mobility scooter. Joey cannot help hitching a ride, and then blazing a trail back to positive vibes.This is the latest project for Maxwell and his brand of jaunty bedroom-pop&nbsp;by creative studio Amitybloc, who have shot stills and&nbsp;visualisers for the his debut EP, including video and lyric video for the single my self.&nbsp;

Amitybloc

Rhory Danniells

Intergalactic Studios

Taylor Sundermeier

Sam Roffey

Sam Mayer

Orlando Riches

Henry Heffer

Olivia Jones

Katie Downer

Myles Bevan

Time Based Arts

Joanna Szyczewska

Polydor

Singer-songwriter

Indie-pop

Bedroom Pop

Joey Maxwell 'Too Much' by Amitybloc

Joey-Maxwell--'Too-Much-'-by-Amitybloc

Raja Virdi directs another signature one-shot live performance video for his regular collaborator Holly Humberstone, this time for The Late Late Show With James Corden.After previous their videos involving dramatic scenarios, in this one Holly is sitting in the middle of a road with her keyboard performing the song – until she's suddenly being carried off the tarmac and into the back of a people carrier by two unknown assailants...&nbsp;&nbsp;

Hugo Holford

Charlie Killick

Charlie Tierney

Josh Sanger

Beau Pritchard James

Holly Humberstone 'Falling Asleep At The Wheel' (Live for The Late Late Show With James Corden) by Raja Virdi

Holly Humberstone: Falling Asleep at the Wheel

Celeste and Silent Tapes join forces again for A Little Love - the soundtrack to this year's John Lewis &amp; Waitrose Christmas campaign - to tell a&nbsp;curious Christmas tale of magic and imagination.A little girl's Christmas toys come to life - including Celeste as a music box figurine - in this piece that creates an alternative vision of a classic English Victorian Yuletide, with a nod to the influence of Lewis Carroll's Alice."This film is really personal to us, rooted in our family’s own experiences being ethnic minorities in the UK," say husband and wife directing team Silent Tapes.&nbsp;&nbsp;"It's about the magic and inspiration that happens when there is diversity in children's toys and culture. This song carries such a strong powerful message that goes well beyond love and Christmas.”

Silent Tapes

Celeste 'A Little Love' by Silent Tapes

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