Producer

Lucile Weigel

It&#39;s one of the most delicious ideas for a super-band ever, and FFS&nbsp;- the collaborative project&nbsp;between Franz Ferdinand &amp; Sparks - have recruited a supergroup of their own&nbsp;to create the first video. And Paris-based&nbsp;AB/CD/CD have made a characteristic FX-fired delight, with&nbsp;a series of loops that capture every member of group - all four Franzers, and the two Mael brothers - caught at various stages of delusion, as they attempt&nbsp;to seduce a beautiful girl.&nbsp;Its also closely aligned to the music, repeating itself in regular time, the chairs and characters change position every time the camera makes a circuit. The video&#39;s impact is in it&#39;s duplication; the video spins, the narrative unfolds, and&nbsp;ends in crescendo...

United Kingdom

AB-CD-CD

Partizan Darkroom

Claire Stubbs

Stevie Fylan

Adam Scarth

Seth Crosby

Kitty Walker

Grace Snell

Layla Mehmedagi

Mark Maborough

Royal Post

Sylvain Canaux

St Louis

Anna Carradice

John Moole

Domino

Emily Lucienne

Sid Lesarge

Margerie Argentin

Benzene Music

Mathieu Caulet

Julien Aucouturier

François Gilguy

Sarah Quilbé

Indie, Adult Alternative

Franz-Ferdinand-Sparks 'Johnny Delusional' by AB/CD/CD

After his excellent video for J. Cole&#39;s She Knows, Sam Pilling gets together with friends Chris Lee and Paul Storrie to pull enough another nailbiting drama for the German duo KOLT.&nbsp;This&nbsp;focusses on a young woman heading by car for a significant rendezvous - and the boyfriend giving chase in order to prevent it happening - in&nbsp;the process becoming&nbsp;a very British kind of road movie. They always work best with German electronica...

Sam Pilling

Chris Lee

Ellie Johnson

Speade

James Tillett

Kharmel Cochrane

Neon Tamburin Records

Paul Storrie

Kolt 'Jetzt Weinst Du' by Sam Pilling, Chris Lee, Paul Storrie

Kolt-'Jetzt-Weinst-Du'-by-Sam-Pilling,-Chris-Lee,-Paul-Storrie

A monochrome performance video for Daughter&#39;s sublime Youth by The Mitcham Submarine which highlights the intimacy of the track with its minimalism, and judicious use of lighting - and was inpired by a live performance by the&nbsp;band earlier this year.

The Mitcham Submarine

th1ng th2ng

Hannah Cooper

Alex Ryle

Jason Wingrove

Andy Young

Sam Barry-Parker

David Bradshaw

Robert Mila

Wouter Poppink

Brigitta Smart

Jakob Brondum

James Harman @ TC Soho

Sean Martin

Tom Knowles @ The Joint

The Joint

Matthew Hoare

Owen Porter

Indie Rock

Daughter 'Youth' by The Mitcham Submarine

Daughter - Youth

When Brave Bird Saved is Fred &amp; Nick&rsquo;s 15 minute short film featuring the first four tracks from Laura Marling&rsquo;s new album Once I Was An Eagle &ndash; a combination of artist and dance performance in a cinematic setting, that serves as an introduction to the album and a precursor to Fred &amp; Nick&rsquo;s video for the album&rsquo;s first single <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO2gm29rI7E">Master Hunter</a>.
Fred &amp; Nick say: &ldquo;We wanted to progress things on from our previous collaborations with Laura, and with the narrative of Once I Was An Eagle being so strong our interpretation was from a theatrical perspective. We wanted this to feel expansive, ambitious and have a strong sense of journey at its core. The story expands and continues onwards into the video for Master Hunter and then further beyond in the coming months.
&ldquo;We shot the film in just ten hours with heroic effort from all involved &ndash; with particular mention to choreographer Kitty McNamee, dancer Jessica Lee Keller, DP Tom Banks and his team, steadicam op Ari Robbins, and our producer Sloane who was incredible and stuck with it throughout &ndash; and Billy Mead and his team at Ten Three, James Tillett and Edwin at MPC, Andrew Curtis and Lucile &ndash; all of whom consistently went above and beyond during the post process.&rdquo;
The trailer is below &ndash; and the full 15 minute film is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7eRrTKmYO0">here</a>.

Frederick Scott

Nicolas Jack Davies

Adam Tudhope

Laura Taylor

Marisa Clifford

Laura Tunstall

Sloane Skala

Chad Nicholson

Tom Banks

Ari Robbins

Ezra Riley

Emilio Oliveira

Andrew Fairbank

Alberto Vega

Jared Threatt

Liz Garner

John Hennessey

Marco Campos

Candice Brittain

Michael Comrie

Billy Mead

Andrew Curtis

Kitty Mcnamee

David Williams

Sam Seager

Laura Marling ‘When Brave Bird Saved’ by Fred & Nick

Laura Marling 'When Brave Bird Saved' - Short Film Trailer

There&rsquo;s been more than a few tenpin bowling videos in the past, but none of them have managed to put quite the, er, spin on proceedings as Sam Pilling does for Two Door Cinema Club&rsquo;s Handshake.
Starting with a wild-eyed individual using a butcher&rsquo;s chopper to ominous effect, we soon discover the purpose of his work: he needs the head of TDCC frontman Alex Trimble (and those of bandmates Kevin and Sam) for his big upcoming bowling contest &ndash; they are the bowling balls.
What follows does to some extent owe a debt to the other great Nineties film featuring tenpin bowling that isn&rsquo;t The Big Lebowski &ndash; we&rsquo;re talking Kingpin, of course. First off, Sam has pulled together a great cast of bug-eyed weirdos &ndash; mainly Ian Virgo and Martin Hancock as the rival bowlers &ndash; who turn the dial to 11.
And then there&rsquo;s the added ridiculousness of the band as bowling balls which keeps getting better, as the trio are subjected to a variety of indignities &ndash; right down the final glorious throw. The VFX work by Tim Keeling is excellent &ndash; Sam explains below how they achieved the rolling heads FX &ndash; and that &lsquo;lick&rsquo; shot at the end is priceless&hellip;
Sam Pilling on the making of the video for Two Door Cinema Club&rsquo;s Handshake
&ldquo;I was really excited to make this idea so thank you to the band, their management and Kitsune for really believing in the project!
&ldquo;The real challenge was working out how the hell we were physically going to make the heads roll. Tim (the VFX supervisor) and I worked closely together trying to find the best way of achieving all the different VFX shots.
&ldquo;We had some great advice from some VFX specialists, but its always easier said than done and putting the theory into practice proved to be a problem &ndash; one which ended at midnight, the evening before the shoot with pieces of polystyrene littered all over the floor, foam stuffing ripped out of the office sofas and Tim wrapped in a entire 60m roll of bubble wrap, then almost passing out!
&ldquo;The shoot itself was great fun with a lot of laughs, despite trying to squeeze a 70+ shot list into one day! This was really a testament to the great team of people we worked with so thank you to all involved! You know who you are!!! It was an absolute pleasure working with such talented actors. Ian &amp; Martin completely nailed it and made the stressful experience just that bit easier!
&ldquo;A massive thanks to the band for being so up for it on the day. They had just played a gig in Brussels the night before, then travelled over night to get to London in time for the shoot. I&rsquo;m sure the last thing they wanted to be doing was rolling along a hard wooden floor with a cushion stuffed down their backs!
&ldquo;Everything weird that I asked them to do, they did with a smile! Yes, Alex did lick the bowling pin and Kevin was actually dragged along with his head in the gutter! As for Sam, he just got away with a stern talking to and Ian&rsquo;s fingers rammed down his throat!&rdquo;
&nbsp;

Kitsuné

Pulse Films

Stacy Vaughan

Ben Todd

Tim Keeling

Denny Cooper

Lewis Arnold

David Lieb

Tim Gibson

Alice Wigley

Charles Johnston Robinson

Mike Linforth

Chris Belcher

Andy McBrearty

Adam Bell

Christian Hayes

Mark Morley

Georgina Napier

Candy Alderson

Sean Sweeney

Ore Okonedo

Joceline Gabriel

Ian Virgo

Martin Hancock

CJ Hassay

John Hassay

Indie

Two Door Cinema Club ‘Handshake’ by Sam Pilling

Two Door Cinema Club - Handshake

Following promos over the summer for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/06/14/the-gaslight-anthem-45-giorgio-testi/" target="_blank">Gaslight Anthem</a>, <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/07/04/blur-under-the-westway-the-puritan-by-giorgio-testi/" target="_blank">Blur</a> and album teasers for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2012/09/10/the-killers-battle-born-album-teasers-by-giorgio-testi/" target="_blank">The Killers</a>, Giorgio Testi delivers this quality performance promo for The Heavy's muscular tune What Makes A Man

Luca Ciuti

Tiernan Han

Ruth Crawford

Lisa Zipper

OB Management

Maddy Salvage

The Heavy 'What Makes A Good Man?' by Giorgio Testi

The-Heavy-'What-Makes-A-Good-Man?'-by-Giorgio-Testi

Shot on a budget of a &pound;1000, unsigned MVA-nominated directer Dave Aspinall delivers his promo for Manchester band The Whip.The video is &quot;set in a post apocalyptic world littered with the remains of a technological era, with a tribe of new age children going about their daily routines&quot;. Dave shot it himself, at reliably photogenic Dungeness, and the kids look great.

James Hughes

Guy Thompson

Giulia Scrimieri

Dave Aspinall

The Whip 'Movement' by Dave Aspinall

The-Whip-'Movement'-by-Dave-Aspinall

Filmed at the Electric Brixton and Kentish Town Forum in London, Giorgio Testi's rousing promo for Hard-Fi's Bring It On, captures the band in full flight.
Giorgio Testi: "We wanted to get an energetic live feel but still keeping a promo vibe. I went for a proper multiformat approach - mixing up 16mm, RED Epic, DSLR, HD... as well as different frame rates".

Giorgio Testi

Dave Miller

Mike McDuffie

Scott Dillon

Dan Curwin

Hard-Fi 'Bring It On' by Giorgio Testi

As well as the usual merrymaking this also includes some genuine political mass action - footage from the student protests in London from earlier this year, shot by William Bridges. Meanwhile, David Fishel's previous work includes the Drums' Surfing video, while Celia is a filmmaker and choreographer who's made several dance films. They and William are "criminally unsigned", according to James, who exec produced this through his own Hobo Film Company.

William Bridges, James Lees, David Fishel (Paris) & Celia Rowlson

James Lees

The Hobo Film Company

Final Cut

Andrew P

JB @ Part Time Punks Records

Ed Line

If The Kids’ Life Is Now by William Bridges, James Lees, David Fishel in Paris and Celia Rowlson-Hall

If-The-Kids’-Life-Is-Now-by-William-Bridges,-James-Lees,-David-Fishel-in-Paris-and-Celia-Rowlson-Hall

Promonews Podcast

Lucile Weigel

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