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Nicky Pastore

Andrew Goldsmith &amp; Darcy Prendergast of Oh Yeah Wow! do amazing&nbsp;special effects and stop-frame animation but their video for&nbsp;Melbourne-based band Hudson and Troop is all about the power of costume design.Their down-at-heel hero is&nbsp;like a cross between Sully from Monsters Inc&nbsp;and the minataur.&nbsp;And he&#39;s&nbsp;stuck&nbsp;in the real world, on dead-end street.&nbsp;Eventually he&#39;s going to get angry... &nbsp;

Andrew Goldsmith

Darcy Prendergast

Caviar

Shelley Farthing-dawe

Christina Remnant. Art Dept: Donna Yeatman, Mohini Herse

Paige Prendergast

Roslyn Di Sisto

Oh Yeah Wow

Hudson And Troop 'Frameless' by Oh Yeah Wow

Hudson-And-Troop-'Frameless'-by-Oh-Yeah-Wow-(dir.-Andrew-Goldsmith-&-Darcy-Prendergast)

Josh Thomas spoofs 1973 horror classic The Exorcist in his promo for Ghost by Dallas electronic band Mystery Skulls.A priest&nbsp;is summoned when a&nbsp;family is concerned for their daughter who appears to be possessed by a demon - but&nbsp;this is no ordinary priest -&nbsp;and stick around for a nice little&nbsp;surprise at the end...

United States

Josh Thomas

Ed Goldner

Christina Remnant

Robert Pill

Karl Peschek

Donna Yeatman

Genevieve Frew

Max Clark

Jack Doherty

Tom Savige

Paige Pendergast

Marleen Olson

Warner Bros. Records

Devin Sarno

Mystery Skulls 'Ghost' by Josh Thomas

Mystery Skulls - "Ghost" (Official Music Video)

Focussing on the human face has been a path to music video immortality for over thirty years - ever since <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxtPRF6NG7I" target="_blank">Godley &amp; Creme&#39;s Cry</a>, and arguably&nbsp;all the way to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2013/09/25/miley-cyrus-wrecking-ball-directors-cut-terry-richardson" target="_blank">Miley&#39;s Wrecking Ball</a> - by way, of course, of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUiTQvT0W_0" target="_blank">Sinead&#39;s Nothing Compares 2 U</a>.&nbsp;But nothing quite matches the sheer mindboggling ambition of Darcy Prendergast&#39;s video for The Paper Kites&#39; Young. Created out of Darcy&#39;s celebrated Melbourne-based studio Oh Yeah Wow, this is a performance of the song by a rapid-fire sequence of hundreds of faces, from thousands of photos. Portrait photography meets stop-motion animation, and the effect is almost overwhelming.&nbsp;Here are the stats: more than&nbsp;350&nbsp;faces were shot in Melbourne &quot;from Brunswick to Brighton&quot;, and it took 10 days to assemble more than 3000 photos. Darcy enlisted photographer Oli Sansom to ensure every one of the 350 extras were shot in perfect alignment.&nbsp;The whole point is to reflect the song&#39;s themes, about the fine line between individuality and conformity. It will certainly make you think that there are a hell of a lot of people in Melbourne prepared to do the same thing.&nbsp;And all the participants from the shoot, as photographed by Oli Sansom, can be found on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.574174982636511.1073741828.171680809552599&amp;type=1&amp;l=3443aefefe&amp;utm_source=Master+List&amp;utm_campaign=b5dbd9a401-151013_PaperKites&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_d67e41f2b8-b5dbd9a401-52044721" target="_blank">Paper Kites Funny Faces Facebook page</a>.

Australia

Oli Sansom

Mohini Herse

Sam Lewis

The Paper Kites 'Young' by Darcy Prendergast

The Paper Kites: Young

What would you do if you were a heartbroken Minotaur Apparently you'd trek to a city, drink and smoke a lot, find the nearest karaoke bar and sing your lungs out. Pretty much the same as not being a Minotaur then.
This entertaining promo from wonderful Australians 'Oh Yeah Wow' (responsible for some great videos for All India Radio and Gotye among others) comes equipped with some pretty wonderful prosthetics from Russell and Kirsty Sharp.

Darcy Prendergast and Seamus Spilsbury (Oh Yeah Wow)

Skye Staude

Christina Remnant, Mike Greaney, Samuel Lewis, Alexandra Calisto de Carvalho

Tom Saviage

Joyrider

British India 'I Can Make You Love Me' by Darcy Prendergast and Seamus Spilsbury

British-India-'I-Can-Make-You-Love-Me'-by-Darcy-Prendergast-and-Seamus-Spilsbury

Darcy was animator of the Goyte's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watchv=oyVJsg0XIIk" target="_blank">Eyes Wide Open</a> video. After that, Wally De Backer (aka Goyte) was keen for Darcy and his team to make the video for Easy Way Out. It turned out to be an amazingly ambitious synthesis of stop motion and live action - tieing in with the theme of the song and the depressive effect of repetition - that was a whopping nine months in the making. 
The clip was shot using a complex mathematic formula and 360 pan motion control rig that rotated within their custom-built five-room set - practically a small house built within the studio. 
The creativity is brilliant, but the mood, as with Somebody I Don't Know and his other videos, is almost refreshingly downbeat. Wally/Goyte is stuck in a circle of repetition from which he can't break free, and then a graphic spiraling descent to disaster... 
The studio will be releasing a 'Making Of' clip and have behind the scenes photos available on their Facebook page...

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