Mark Whelan is a music promos and commercials editor, working at The Quarry in London.His list of recent promos include Gazelle Twin, KT Tunstall, The Editors, Hurts and The Graveltones.

The Quarry

Editor

Mark Whelan

A fierce chess match between two seniors has extraordinary&nbsp;consequences, in RUTA's splendid promo for Jack Savoretti.&nbsp;The video for Too Much History is set on one of those rare&nbsp;and glorious sunny days in London. Sitting poolside in a swish, suburban location, two older ladies decide to play a game of chess - while handsome Jack Savoretti surveys the scene from a lifeguard's chair.&nbsp;But then the OAPs'&nbsp;rivalry soon erupts into several offbeat scenarios, with real life ramifications.&nbsp;Blending lovely performances with breezy visual effects and a fresh concept, it's an excellent match to the summer vibes in the track.[imgtoken data:1]

United Kingdom

Ruta

Pilar Muro

Papaya Films

Ella Taylor-Palfrey

Sam Roffey

Ben Cotgrove

Anil Duru

Nevzet Altinisik

Owain Morgan

Anthony Hensman

Adele Cany

Louise Hall

Alex Price

Kick The Plug

Andi Chu

Black Kite Studios

Jade Denne

Horacio Bolz

Tomas Lovera

Marisa Garner Associates

Ailsa Robertson

Jack Savoretti 'Too Much History' by RUTA

Jack-Savoretti-'Too-Much-History'-by-Ruta

Chris Turner, aka Favourite Colour: Black, directs a luxurious,&nbsp;gold-hued visual for The Vamps' Married In Vegas.&nbsp;The exuberance and excess of Sin City trickles down into something more&nbsp;abstract in this&nbsp;video, with the band performing in a brutalist space with a woman covered head-to-toe in gold body paint.&nbsp;Casting aside any usual narrative structure or expectations, the concept instead focuses on striking set pieces and stylish art direction, culminating in a perfect comeback video&nbsp;for the London-based group.&nbsp;

Favourite Colour Black

Thalia Murray

Stable London

Luke Scully

Scott Buxton

Francis Boyter

Bobby Nicols

Jackie Tyson

Vic Parker

Pop Rock

The Vamps 'Married In Vegas' by Favourite Colour: Black

The-Vamps-'Married-In-Vegas'-by-Favourite-Colour-Black

Chris Turner (aka&nbsp;Favourite Colour: Black) takes a slow-burning, minimalistic&nbsp;approach, crammed&nbsp;with intriguing black and white portraiture, for new duo Pinero|Serene.Turner describes it as "a vision of flames and flesh with modern gothic imagery" with the focus on the details of the artists - bass player Cheryl Pinero and vocalist Neeq Serene - while they bare their souls.&nbsp;"The inspiration came out of lots of conversations with Cheryl &amp; Neeq," says Turner. "Some of the cut-away imagery I’d wanted to shoot on Phantom for a while, and they seemed to fit nicely with the ideas we had about capturing their performance. We wanted it to feel more like like visual - or moving portraits - than a music video."&nbsp;Take My Soul is the pair's debut single, from a 4 track EP called Dark Matter, due for release July 12th. &nbsp;

Favourite Colour: Black

Peter McMillan

Park Village

Jason Berman

Claudia Pinheiro

Alternative

Alt-Pop

Pinero|Serene 'Take My Soul' by Favourite Colour: Black

Pinero-Serene-'Take-Me-Home-'-by-Favourite-Colour:-Black

Adam Smith and&nbsp;Marcus Lyall's latest for The Chemical Brothers is a shot of lightning from the arm - a maverick, Japanese sci-fi B-movie sent from the future.&nbsp;A mousey businesswoman transforms into an intergalactic superhero to fight craterous monsters, furry cyborgs and a robot wizard. And there's Aurora too, dressed like Robot Boy.Lyall and Smith’s video has the renegade spirit of a cult movie. There are shades of&nbsp;Kung Fury, the low-budget Youtube movie that spawned an entire genre. And also of Ed Wood, the eccentric 1950s filmmaker, who directed the camp classic Plan 9 from Outer Space (It’s nice to imagine that if Wood were resurrected today, handed a 4K camera and a box full of lycra, he would have tried to make Eve of Destruction).The real hallmark of a Chemical Brothers video is a frenetic harmony of music, choreograph and editing. This is a shining example. The video is exhausting in the best way: no beat, bar or lyric goes by without a punch, a strobe or a spark. The costume design is also top-tier.&nbsp;The characters are not only original and impressive, they are also charmingly homemade, with fantastic costume design by Katie Tabor.And the sheer directness of the direction is best explained by the relationship that Smith and Lyall&nbsp;have with Tom and Ed of the ChemBros. Individually the pair work on very different things: Lyall creates light installations in grand public spaces; Smith is the legendary director of the band’s own Galvanize, as well as some of the best-loved episodes of Doctor Who and Skins.&nbsp;As a team they&nbsp;have been making the band's distinctive live visuals for years. And the Eve Of Destruction video was originally created as visuals for their live show.Best live visuals ever?

Adam Smith

Marcus Lyall

Matthew Cummins

Black Dog Films

Martin Roker

Suzie Lavelle

James Sharpe

Job Reineke

Matt King

Sol Saihati

Ollie Tiong

Katie Tabor

Deanna V’Icevska

Amit Lahav

Dave Garrick

Jonny Stopford

Marcus Lyall Ltd

Dance

Dance, Electronica, Pop

The Chemical Brothers 'Eve Of Destruction' by Adam Smith & Marcus Lyall

Chemical-Brothers-'Eve-Of-Destruction-'-by-Adam-Smith-&-Marcus-Lyall

Boy George, Rankin and creative director Mark Whelan have teamed up to create a video for the music icon&rsquo;s newest track, the soulful Life. And while George undergoes numerous costume changes under Rankin&#39;s famous ringlights, the big surprise comes when he strips off the make-up, and his hat, and reveals the real man underneath.It&#39;s an appropriate&nbsp;moment for a song which is all about stripping away the artifice to reveal true feelings of the heart. The sentiments come through with the assiatnce of hand-animation around the live action. And it demonstrates that George is always a compelling figure that demands your attention,&nbsp;whether in full warpaint and outfit or not.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;

Rankin

Ugne Ciesiunaite

Rankin Film

Beth Montague

Andreas Neo

Christine Bateman

Hamilton Stansfield

Marco Turcich

Gareth Phillips

Manuel Molla

Rob Shipster

Alan Mahon

Grant Mckean

Natalia Lucia

Boy George & Culture Club 'Life' by Rankin

Boy George & Culture Club - Life (Official Video)

Corinne Bailey Rae&#39;s has released this powerful video - the second&nbsp;directed by Chris Turner aka Favourite Colour: Black from her anticipated comeback album &ndash;&nbsp;for Stop Where You Are.&nbsp;The video captures a warm, uplifting&nbsp;performance by the singer&nbsp;amongst the cold concrete slates of&nbsp;the Southbank Centre&#39;s brutalist buildings. Around her, scenes of human kindness as well as antagonism and conflict play out, inviting us to drop the&nbsp;barriers that we build around ourselves and appreciate those around us, regardless of image, colour, creed or culture.

Joe Walker

Ed Bellamy

Jeremy Fusco

Roland Phillips

Kevin Mcmorrow

Bianca Simone

Martina Lisette

Raised By Wolves

Virgin Records

Singer-songwriter

Corinne Bailey Rae 'Stop Where You Are' by Favourite Colour: Black

Corinne-Bailey-Rae-'Stop-Where-You-Are'-by-Favourite-Colour:-Black

Strong saturated colours abound in&nbsp;Chris Turner - aka Favourite Colour: Black&#39;s - hypnotic&nbsp;visuals for Birdy&#39;s Keeping Your Head Up, with a bold,&nbsp;photographic vision, tracking&nbsp;through a&nbsp;curious&nbsp;underground world of costumed and&nbsp;masked dancers.

Scott Williams

Maarten Alexander

Rob Nicholls

Dan Curwin

Atlantic Records

Lucie Pankhurst

Jamiee Thomas

Natalie Wansbrough-Jones

Esperanza De La Fuente

Sarah Jones

Zoe Arena

Alex Hudson

Birdy 'Keeping Your Head Up' by Favourite Colour: Black

Birdy-'Keeping-Your-Head-Up'-by-Favourite-Colour-Black

Chris Turner, aka Favourite Colour: Black, harnesses the energy and excitement of The Bohicas in this&nbsp;no-nonsense,&nbsp;bang-on performance promo for new single Where You At.With a combination of fast-edited close-ups, long shots and&nbsp;contrasting light settings, FC:B conjures a thrilling document who a band who properly rock.&nbsp;

Rees Lipscomb

Rich Savage

Tash Tung

David Hawkins

Sadie Sanford

Jon Leese-Pomfret

Gin Godden

Domino

The Bohicas 'Where You At' by Favourite Colour: Black

The-Bohicas-'Where-You-At'-by-Favourite-Colour:-Black

Chris Turner - aka Favourite Colour: Black - draws the viewer into his story of corruption for Young Guns&#39;s Speaking In Tongues,&nbsp;in much in the way that&nbsp;Young Guns&#39; lead singer Gus is lured into the maelstrom: by an exciting&nbsp;encounter with a girl in suspenders, stockings and a very short fur coat.But its never as good again for Gus&nbsp;as that first time - in fact, it gets a whole lot worse &ndash;&nbsp;in a stylish visual demonstration&nbsp;of the law of diminishing returns.&nbsp;

Chris Turner

Gemma Carmichael

Krystle Gohel

Adam Clarke

Absolute Post

Belinda Grew

Hayley Ku'unani

Alexa Haywood

James Hackett

Virgin EMI

Young Guns 'Speaking In Tongues' by Favourite Colour: Black

Young-Guns-'Speaking-In-Tongues'-by-Favourite-Colour:-Black-/-Chris-Turner

This is another Courteeners video by their regular collaborator Joe Connor, but in something of a departure from their other work together, this one for Next Time You Call doesn&#39;t feature the band. Instead it&#39;s a portrait of Samantha Allen - ballerina&nbsp;turned wrestler.Shot in London&#39;s East End, Joe captures the cinematic power and grace of Samantha in training, and then counterpoints it with black and white footage of her taking part in a bout of Luche Libre&nbsp;- the extravagantly theatrical form of Mexican wrestling in which&nbsp;performers usually wear masks. It&#39;s also&nbsp;now the core element of East London wrestling-cum-cabaret event&nbsp;<a href="http://www.luchabritannia.com/" target="_blank">Lucha Britannia</a>, where Joe shot the bout footage last Halloween.&nbsp;And this is an alluring&nbsp;insight into a&nbsp;fascinating world...

Joe Connor

Chief Productions

Margot Douglas

Elliot Dollie

Jason Ellis

Joe Jamieson

Paul Craig

Ian McLaughlin

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Indie Rock

The Courteeners 'Next Time You Call' by Joe Connor

The Courteeners - Next Time You Call

Its been a while since we&#39;ve seen something as indirectly&nbsp;disturbing as Gazelle Twin&#39;s Anti Body but it is to Chris Turner&#39;s credit as it is exactly what the track demands. A faceless girl&nbsp;age warps from young to old as creepy images fill in the subtext. The result - goosebumps.

Chris Turner AKA (Favourite Colour: Black)

Alex Preston

Hopi Demattio

Ellen Lundy

Charlie Panayi

Gazelle Twin

Wigs by Tam Walsh

Matt Turner

Mikey Brown

Sasha Aston

Anna Barry

Gazelle Twin 'Anti Body' by Chris Turner aka Favourite Colour: Black

Gazelle Twin - Anti Body (official video)

Released to coincide with her current UK tour, Favourite Colour: Black (aka Chris Turner) &nbsp;joins forces with&nbsp;KT Tunstall for the promo to&nbsp;Made Of Glass - the third single from her critically accalaimed album Invisible Empire//Crescent Moon.Shot at the beautiful Courtyard Theatre in London, &nbsp;Chris&#39; stylish and striking promo, set around a romantic restaurant scene, sees KT raid stylist David Hawkins&#39; dressing-up box&nbsp;, with a surprising twist at the finale...

Tom Walden

KT Tunstall 'Made Of Glass' by Favourite Colour: Black

KT Tunstall - Made Of Glass

In the video by Chris Turner, aka Favourite Colour: Black,&nbsp;singing along to Editors&#39;&nbsp;Honesty proves to be catching, on a busy&nbsp;night in Soho...&nbsp;&nbsp;

Editors 'Honesty' by Favourite Colour: Black

Editors - Honesty

An exuberant lo-fi performance video for the guitar/drums combo The Graveltones by Chris Turner, aka Favourite Colour: Black...Chris/FC:B&#39;s excellent and very sexy video for Hurts&#39; Miracle had to be pulled by the label shortly after its release. So this is a small yet refreshing recuperative exercise after that disappointment. But he has now been green lit for directing his first feature, so all is now well in his world...&nbsp;

The Graveltones 'Catch Me On The Fly' by Favourite Colour: Black

Catch Me On The Fly - The Graveltones

Alexander Brown delivers this highly atmospheric, driving and tasteful video for Waylayers&#39; SOS that captures night-time London in a cool and original way.Alexander harnesses the sweet electronic atmospherics within the soundtrack - powered by beautiful work from DP Sam Care. Alexander says: &quot;When the band approached me to do a follow up video to Magnets I was immediately taken by SOS and its driving rhythm. I had the idea of trying to make something as epic and cinematic as films like Drive that manage to conjure up a retrospective vision of the present, creating a world of gearboxes and the city&#39;s neon-lit underbelly.&quot;I knew from the beginning we were never going to be able to shoot in LA, but I always enjoy the challenge of trying to make the UK more epic. It&#39;s always a challenge shooting London in a way that doesn&#39;t look too provincial or something we&#39;ve all seen before. &nbsp;&quot;With a customised truck, hand finished costumes, about a million locations and an incredible crew pulling together over a bank holiday weekend, we really threw everything at this one.&nbsp;&quot;I think it&#39;s a real achievement of teamwork and willpower so its amazing it came out this well. So thank you to everyone involved!&quot;&nbsp;

Alexander Brown

Gail Mosley

Sam Care

Jayne O'Hanlon

Steve Gatti

Nice & Polite

Waylayers 'SOS' by Alexander Brown

Waylayers : S-O-S

Making his first foray into music promos, Favourite Colour: Black &ndash; its the name commercials director Chris Turner is using for his vids &ndash; works with the mighty Hurts on this eyepopping, epic promo to Miracle, the first single from their second album&nbsp;Exile&nbsp;(out March 11).FC:B marries the band&rsquo;s widescreen synthpop with this dark and dramatic journey through a post-apocalyptic shopping mall, peppered with religious imagery and fearless half-clad dancers &ndash; beautiful, with loads of personality to boot &ndash; ending on a rooftop with the Hurts hashtag-like logo in flames. A highly impressive music video directing debut by anyone&rsquo;s standards.

Mark Whelan

Editor

Videos featuring Mark Whelan

2021 (1)

2020 (1)

2019 (3)

2016 (2)

2015 (3)

2014 (1)

2013 (5)

Popular content

Is this your profile?

Feedback

Latest Videos