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For Colplay's Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall from their yet untitled fifth album, Mat Whitecross' third promo for the band is this exciting stop motion, graffiti-splattering gem. 
Mat explains that this was a production that grew out of a fairly simple idea - but then became a lot more complicated: 
"A few weeks ago, the band were doing a photo shoot over at Millennium Mills with Bristol-based graffiti artist Paris, and our photographer mate Sarah Lee. They asked if I'd mind dropping by with a film camera so we could mess around in between set ups.
"Looking at the beautiful artwork Paris and the band were creating on the walls, Chris thought maybe we should just shoot the video for the new single there and then, with him walking through the building and the camera whipping between band and graffiti.
"Never having done it before, I stupidly suggested we come back another day and animate the graffiti using stop motion - so me and Paris shot some test footage that night with a stills camera to show the band how it might look. They were into it straight away, but it wasn't till they gave the go ahead for the video that we realised quite how much work it would involve.
"As usual, what was supposed to be a really simple idea escalated and escalated - and we ended up putting band, crew and artists through hell and back - as well as gallons of paint - to hit the post-Glastonbury deadline, but it was more than worth it. I now have nothing but respect and admiration for animators worldwide - and absolutely no idea how they find the patience and stamina to put together features this way".

Hannah Clark

Pulse Films

Chris Burgess

Andy Walton, Delroy Burley, Dean Holton, Steve Fitzp

Sara Deane

Charlie Herranz

Adrian McCarthy

Murren Tullett

Roger Cutting

Beth Fenton

James Tillett

James Hackett

Coldplay 'Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall' by Mat Whitecross

Following the rowing adventure that was his video for Take That&#39;s <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2010/10/15/take-that%E2%80%99s-the-flood-by-mat-whitecross/" target="_blank">The Flood</a>, Mat Whitecross teams up with Eran Creevy for their next single Kidz. Here Creevy takes us through the process behind the brilliant and epic production:&quot;Mat Whitecross and I are close friends and hadn&#39;t co-directed since we first set up our production company. Otis Bell, our rep, suggested us teaming up again and it&#39;s been brilliant. We shot the promo in two hectic days with spaceship interiors, exteriors, SWAT teams, army, police, Humvees, ambulances, armored vehicles, a fake helicopter, 200 hundred extras, and most importantly... Take That.&quot;We had to sometimes split into separate units just to achieve our boards. Our experienced producer Ben Sullivan recommended the Nu Boyana studios in Bulgaria due to their amazing back lots, studio space and remarkable crews. They had just shot the new Conan The Barbarian movie and Peter Weirs The Way Back so the crews are very experienced, talented and used to operating at a very high standard.&quot;Our exceptional VFX team in London, The Brewery, were kept in constant communication with our production designer in Bulgaria, Antonello Rubino. The Brewery were simultaneously building our CGI spaceship whilst Antonello was designing the spaceship interior and landing gear set build, luckily they managed to pull it off. We had an experienced 1st, Mark Roper, who guided us smoothly through the two days and knew our boards better than we did.

Mat Whitecross

Ben Sullivan

Gabriel Georgiev

Ben Pugh & Hannah Clark

Lorenzo Sen

Antonello Rubino

Luke Day (TT) and Marcus Love (RW)

Simone Grattarola

Ross Anderson

Carrie Sutton

Take That 'Kidz' by Mat Whitecross and Eran Creevy

Following WIZ&#39;s promo for their debut <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2010/05/11/hurts'-better-than-love-by-w-i-z/" target="_blank">Better Than Love</a> comes this extremely rare outing in videos by Dawn Shadforth for Hurts&#39; second single Wonderful Life.Echoing early 80s synth duos and clearly a priority for Sony, the band get the &#39;Bryan Ferry by Anthony Price&#39; treatment for this heavily styled by-the-pool scenario. It&#39;s beautiful, with exquisite photography from Natasha Braier.

Dawn Shadforth

Will Oakley

Black Dog Films

Dan Millar

Jean Clement Soret

Hurts’ Wonderful Life by Dawn Shadforth

Hurts - Wonderful Life

Nominated for the Mercury Music Prize 2010 yesterday for their Only Revolutions album, Biffy Clyro team up with Corin Hardy for fifth single and towering ballad God And Satan. 
The adventurous promo, beautifully lensed by Ed Wild, was shot just outside the village of Chiddingly in Sussex and sees the band getting into the spirit of things - donning facepaint, dressing up and immersing themselves neck-deep in a lake...

Watch: <a href="http://www.academyfilms.com/flash/#/academy/music_videos/corin_hardy/biffy_clyro_god_and_satan" target="_blank">here</a>

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