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Phoebe Lloyd

Nick Bartleet sets up a gripping scenario right from the start of his video for Dan Owen. A couple are on the run in wild&nbsp;English countryside, being tracked down by two men in a 4x4, and about to be caught, in scenes reminiscent of&nbsp;Daniel Wolfe&#39;s debut feature Catch Me Daddy.Owen plays one half of the escaping couple, who evade their attackers at first. They come again, this time with dogs, but Bartleet toys with viewer&#39;s expectations, and arguably leaves more questions than answers, in a video framed in 4:3 and beautifully photographed&nbsp;by David Foulkes.

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Nick Bartleet

Jen Gelin

Kode Media

Jamie Whymark

Nathan Killham

Tamara Lenz

Kerry Green

David Foulkes

Chris Williams

Tom Meadows

Alex Taylor

Carrie Sutton

Lucy Rogers

Indie, singer-songwriter

Dan Owen 'Hideaway' by Nick Bartleet

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Having had a beer and left the tap running in his flat, Tom Grennan sets off, running&nbsp;through the streets of London. Where&#39;s he heading?Nick Bartleet&#39;s video for Praying keeps us guessing...

Mark McPadden

Joe Cook

Simon Lakos

Stephen Dunn

Bertil Mulvad

Lulu Wentworth

Krystle Gohel

James Wright

TenThree

Duncan Russell

Freefolk

Daniel Millar

Tom Grennan 'Praying' by Nick Bartleet

Tom-Grennan-'Praying'-by-Nick-Bartleet

Will Young continues to push boundaries in his music videos with this new one for&nbsp;Thank You directed by Nick Bartleet, who orchestrates Will through a group of interesting characters within the visually stunning setting of&nbsp;Porchester Baths&nbsp;in West London.The drama of the piece, and emotions in Will&#39;s relationships with the men of various ages in the steam room,&nbsp;is acted out through choreography. And if the &#39;thank you&#39; message seems at odds with the obvious pain at the heart of the song, the video delivers a proper verbal wallop at the end. Everyone should stick around to see that.&nbsp;Will Young has already commented on the video, saying:&nbsp;&ldquo;I am so very pleased with this video for Thank You. Nick has captured beautifully the emotion of the song and encapsulated an individual narrative to create a music video unlike any other I&rsquo;ve done before.&rdquo;

Jay Arthur

Tim Sidell

Joseph Mastrangelo

Reina Hiraiwa

Sam Alberg

Sarah Jenneson

Susan Hildebrandt

David Stevens

The Assembly Rooms

Glassworks

Tamara Brooks

Olivier Casamayou

Patricia Alonso-Paniagua

Susan Kempster

Will Young 'Thank You' by Nick Bartleet

Will-Young-'Thank-You'-by-Nick-Bartleet

UK pop band Lawson team up with Nick Bartleet for this slick, hi-tech promo to new single Standing In The Dark. With the band performing in a large, minimal and daunting space and a night-time cityscape acting as a very effective backdrop, Nick had this to say about the production:
"Having devoted a lot of this year to a new venture of mine, Furnace, where we have been busy making armour and props for several Hollywood features, I was excited about the possibility of shooting a music video with a grand sense of scale and that incorporated a lot of different skills and processes. 
"I pitched what was quite an abstract idea to the band and fortunately they loved it. The idea works within a large penthouse set we built from scratch. The set was designed to feel cold, baron and masculine so that Andy would feel isolated for his performance. 
"I was inspired by a ceiling design at the London Aquatics Centre and I'm always a big fan of building lighting grids into the set where possible. The ceiling consisted of over 100 1kw par cans, each controllable individually so that we could sequence the light panels, quickly creating very different looks for the two separate scenes in the video. I designed a complex rain water delivery system which was made from hundreds of meters of pipe, with thousands of tiny holes to create an even distribution of water over the entire space. These pipes were then dressed into the set so that we could have full 360 degree shooting without any ugly SFX hoses in sight. 
"Finally we had a 5m wide x 20m long backdrop, custom printed to form the skyline. I was fortunate enough to have my good friend and long-standing DOP Eric Maddison, fly over from LA to help me with what was a pretty epic undertaking. We managed to squeeze an incredible Louma 2 telescopic crane out of the budget allowing us to stay on the remote head all day and put the camera wherever we wanted, quickly. 
"Although we shot on my favourite format, anamorphic, predominantly because it worked so well with the design and aspect ratio of the set, Eric and I both agreed from the outset that we would avoid at all costs any tacky anamorphic lens flares and try to keep the focus on the design, lighting and camera work. Final 3D VFX by a friend of mine, Joseph Harford at shineLabs and our own in house edit, grade and compositing polished the video for delivery".

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=PsbPkZPKEuY

Pixelloft Ltd

George Nelson

Jamie Anning

Sally Low

Marty Finney

Dave Jones

Mike Staiger

Jared Green

Nick Ray

Semera Khan

Lawson 'Standing In The Dark' by Nick Bartleet

Lawson-'Standing-In-The-Dark'-by-Nick-Bartleet

Shot largely in slo-mo in an old disused chocolate factory in Bristol, Nick Bartleet delivers this speaker-exploding, brutal and atmospheric promo for Adam F's When The Rain Has Gone.

Pixelloft

Yi London

Adam F 'When The Rain Has Gone' by Nick Bartleet

With a combination of sweeping cable-cam, aerial photography and strong art direction, Nick Bartleet turns in this cinematic love story for The Courteeners' Take Over The World.

"For This beautiful track, I wanted to make something with a simple and uncluttered narrative which could be captured with a great sense of cinematic scale" explains Bartleet. "The idea was to underline the key moments in the song with powerful, sweeping cable-cam while Liam (Fray, singer) delivered a cool and understated performance".

Watch: <a href="http://www.pixelloft.com/movie_pages/courteeners.html" target="_blank">Quicktime Movie</a>

Eric Maddison

Ross Campbell/Marko Fuchs

Raphael Sander @ Nevs Models

Ross Anderson

The Courteeners’ Take Over The World by Nick Bartleet

"The narrative revolves around Mclean rescuing his lover," Nick explains. "The video starts with a piece of entrapment-inspired choreography created by Paul Harris. 
"Visually, the idea was to combine 1930s styling references and architecture with subtle futuristic art direction and post, creating something which feels both classically beautiful and timeless, while at the same time feeling current."

Paul Harris

Marko Fuchs

Paul Harrison

Tim Nash

McLean’s My Name by Nick Bartleet

Sam Jones

Ben Rogers

McLean’s Broken by Nick Bartleet

Nick Bartleet pulls off a fine approximation of a classic Sergio Leone set-piece for Scott Matthews' new video: a desperate cowboy, in an awful predicament, is faced with a painful dilemma...
It's dramatic and well executed, and Scott provides a brooding, anti-heroic presence too. And like all spaghetti westerns, it wasn't shot anywhere near Monument Valley. Mind you, it wasn't shot in Spain either, but in the unsunny English Midlands.
"We filmed the video in one day, using a stunt horse, birds of prey, a stunt man suspended from a cliff face with poor access and relentless 30mph winds," Nick explains. "Suffice to say it was a challenging shoot for all involved, but with the opportunity to capture something so beautiful. A very worthwhile expedition."
And demonstrating his versatility, Nick has also just directed a more than usually hetero Top Gun spoof for MoS's <a href="http://www.pixelloft.com/starpilots">Star Pilots</a>.

James Rosen

Denny Cooper

Bob Brimson &amp; Tamara Brooks

Scott Matthews’ Fractured by Nick Bartleet 

It's undeniably well-made, but I think Nick Bartleet's video for Pendulum's Showdown is also highly problematic.
In a grim, underworld setting, young women have replaced fighting dogs to provide sport for an ugly bunch of baying males. The violence - actually performed by two experienced martial artists - is extraordinarily vicious, and the camera glories in it. The reaction of the watching pack is all too believable, and the viewer is essentially complicit in the whole degrading spectacle - part of the mob.
Nick Bartleet seeks to balance matters with an ending where one girl escapes - but that's not half as convincing as what precedes it. Still, it's popular! It was meant to be internet-only, but is now A-listed on MTV Dance in the UK and elsewhere.
If you haven't already seen it, make up your own mind. Here's the link, with Nick's own explanation of the making of the video below.

Nick Bartleet on the making of his video for Pendulum's Showdown
"Pendulum wanted a video for their new single to feature a gritty fight sequence between two girls, but were open to ideas as to how this could be visually and conceptually achieved. Having listened to the track, it immediately generated ideas of a dark anarchic underworld fighting ring. Drawing parallels from the brutal world of dog fighting I wrote a hard-hitting and uncompromising script.
"With the band having loved the treatment, it was now important to strike the balance between the violent and bloody concept and what would have to become a more palatable video. Isolating one individual and focusing on her heroic struggle and eventual prevailing over the 'bad guys', helped to this end.
"I decided to cast Zara Phythian in the lead role, who I had worked with before on another promo and who is without question one of the most talented female martial artists in the country. The other main fighter is played by the equally incredible Helen Bailey.
"I wanted the fight sequence to feel quite raw, messy and non martial-arts inspired, with moments of clarity and precision but needed to use girls with a high level of skill and control to make the scenes convincing and with the training to endure the rigours of hard concrete and sub zero conditions with very few clothes.
"The video opens in a long corridor with women slumped against the walls, bloodied up. We enter the main arena, which is a vile, cess-pit of an underground warehouse. Bloodied and bruised women bark aggressively from cages, as men prod them through the bars. Our protagonist is forced into the spotlight as dirty men stand, throwing their cash around, making bets and obscene gestures. After a gritty girl / girl, Fight Club-esque battle with frenzied hair pulling, punching and kicking, our hero fights back!"

John Moule

Pendulum’s Showdown by Nick Bartleet

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