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Nicholas Bentley

Nicholas Bentley directs this enchanting promo for rising stars Fenech Soler. Shot in the pretty Norfolk countryside, the cinematic locations are complimented with a powerful band performance and engaging narrative. 
"Shooting outside, in the UK is always a little bit of a gamble - usually if you want it to be sunny it's dull and if you want it to be rainy it's dry" explains Bentley. "Luckily we had really good weather to shoot the promo and to me, parts don't even look like the UK.
"The band had already started establishing an aesthetic that mixed masks with a more futuristic palette for their stage costumes. I really liked their look and wanted to build on it for this video. Previously they focused on performance and were keen to make something that pushed them a little bit more by creating something that wasn't overly literal to the lyrical content and moved away from a full on performance video.
"I pitched an idea that took the emotional undertones of the song, their styling and an aspect of performance to create something more suggestive and ambiguous.
"The two day shoot was pretty full on with a number of unit moves to places with tricky/limited access. Luckily I had a really good, compact crew who all dug in and worked it more like a short than a hectic promo.
"We shot it all on the 7D which seemed to hold up well considering it's limitations. In fact I don't think we would have been able to do the unit moves and coverage if we used a bigger set up".

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The second single from Scouting For Girls' album Everybody Wants To Be On TV and the follow-up to the No 1 This Ain't A Love Song, finds the trio working with Nicholas Bentley on this retro romp. 
With a big job on the art department side, Bentley creates an authentic 80s look including VHS's, big remote controls and a huge wall of retro TV's in which the band appear alongside James Dean and other famous wannabes.

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Nick Bentley on the making of the video for Run Toto Run's Catch My Breath
"The video was shot over one extremely long day in East Side Studios on the Red One camera. David Wyatt (DoP) did a great job with the very, very limited budget (1k) to create a strong look that followed my original influences/references of The Wizard of Oz and Kenneth Anger's Rabbit Moon, amongst other reference points.
"David suggested using Anamorphic lenses but I wasn't keen on using the cinematic aspect ratio as it didn't seem to fit the tone I wanted to give this video idea but did really like the way lights and skin tones work with the suggested lenses so we shot it all 16:9 safe and decided to crop it in post.

"Sam Jones did a great edit at Cut and Run before I took it over to Luke at the Mill for a really strong grade."

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Nicholas Bentley has created this ambitious but extremely well executed video for Luke Leighfield with the help of a bunch of enthusiastic extras, two exercise balls and lots of fake drugs. Or at least Nicholas says they're fake.

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