Production designer

Russell De Rozario

In their fourth collaboration with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Dan Cadan and Jonathan 'Scully' Mowatt deliver a richly atmospheric&nbsp;setpiece&nbsp;starring Jack O'Connell. In fact, the video for Blue Moon Rising&nbsp;feels like part of a bigger narrative - a gangster movie,&nbsp;also featuring&nbsp;Noel himself as the head of this particular family business.While Noel is in the back office, discussing serious matters with his associates, O'Connell appears as a more fun-loving guy - rather worse for wear, and lured onto the dancefloor of a deserted club by a mystery woman, played by Gala Gordon. All the while they are&nbsp;observed by another, more serious young&nbsp;man (James Nelson Joyce).&nbsp;&nbsp;It's a very cinematic scenario, with some electric chemistry between O'Connell and Gordon, well-paced to work with the track. It's also a video that does that rare thing of putting Noel Gallagher's brooding charisma to good use. By the end you want to know more about this set of characters, and the relationship between them.

United Kingdom

Dan Cadan

Jonathan Mowatt

Ayo Davis

Rankin Creative

Hannah Bellil

Louise Flood

Mel Szabo

Graham Hector

Rankin Film

Jack O'Connell

Gala Gordon

James Nelson Joyce

Ben Keswick

Rock

Noel Gallagher High Flying Birds 'Blue Moon Rising' by Dan Cadan & Jonathan 'Scully' Mowatt

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Jay Kay finds a new hat. &nbsp;

Charlie Lightening

Lightening Films

Octavia Landy

Dan Lightening

Jason Kay

Jamiroquai 'Automaton' by Charlie Lightening

Jamiroquai - Automaton

30 years on from the original and historic recording of Do They Know It&rsquo;s Christmas? Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure returned to Sarm Studios in West London the location of the original 1984 recordings, on Saturday, November 15th,&nbsp;to record Band Aid 30, raising money for the current Ebola crisis in West Africa.The line-up of talent to perform on the fourth version of the song included new generation stars together with some music legends, and a music video legend&nbsp;was also there - Andy Morahan.Last week Andy, the director of iconic music videos including Guns N Roses November Rain and George Michael&rsquo;s Faith and many more, was asked by Geldof and Virgin EMI to come on board to shoot the video. He just had to shoot it simultaneously with the recording of the song, and then deliver it within 36 hours, so it was ready for a special premiere on The X Factor. No pressure then.Andy says, &ldquo;this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to work with so many incredible artists. The level of talent in that studio was truly awe-inspiring. What Bob (Geldof) is doing is important and changes people&rsquo;s lives. Ebola is killing thousands of people in multiple countries and has the potential to affect the whole world on a truly catastrophic scale. The incredible passion with which Bob approaches the Band Aid project is humbling and I am truly flattered to have been asked to be a part of it.&rdquo;In the space of the day Andy filmed some of the biggest pop stars of today &ndash; including One Direction, Emeli Sande, Rita Ora, Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith, Clean Bandit, Jessie Ware, Paloma Faith and Olly Murs &ndash; who teamed up with music legends such as Bono, Chris Martin, Sinead O&#39;Connor, Angelique Kidjo, Elbow, Underworld and Queen&rsquo;s Roger Taylor on drums.&ldquo;Being asked to be a part of the Band Aid experience was an incredible honor for us&rdquo; says Great Guns&rsquo; Executive Producer Sheridan Thomas. &ldquo;The whole process, from recording and mixing the track to shooting editing and finishing the film, had to be completed within 36 hours, presenting us with a number of pretty unique technical challenges. The workflow within each and across all departments had to be absolutely seamless to make it happen. There was literally no room for error. I&rsquo;m so proud of the Great Guns team and so thankful to many of our regular collaborators, like our two DOPs Tony Miller and Angus Hudson, for pulling off what initially seemed like an impossible feat without a single hitch.&rdquo;&nbsp;As well as collaborating with such talented artists, the Great Guns team had the joyous experience of working hand in hand with musical super producers Paul Epworth and Midge Ure.Says Great Guns&rsquo; music video producer Tim Francis, &ldquo;Paul and his engineers were sensational. They helped us enormously with overcoming the many complicated technical challenges. We really could not have delivered a video in the time frame without them.&rdquo;One of the most prominent of these challenges was faced by Great Guns Editors James Demetriou, Nick Saunders and Will Cole who had the gargantuan task of cutting a video that could not even start editing until the rough mix of the track was delivered at 2am, only 15 hours ahead of the delivery of the film&rsquo;s final master.The video was graded and finished at Rushes postproduction, and the tape was literally sprinted from their machine room to be premiered during the Sunday 16th November broadcast of The X Factor. The text donations during the program raised half a million pounds within an hour.The entire project is non-profit - all partners involved&nbsp;have given their time &amp; services up for free &ndash;&nbsp;and all proceeds will go to the Band Aid trust in the global fight against Ebola.&nbsp;

Andy Morahan

Great Guns

Laura Gregory

Sheridan Thomas

Tim Francis

Dan Cleland

Tony C Miller

Angus Hudson

James Demietri

Nick Saunders

Simone Grattarola

Rushes

James Hackett

Virgin EMI

BandAid30 'Do They Know It's Christmas? 2014' by Andy Morahan

Band Aid 30 - Do They Know It's Christmas? (2014)

Soundtracked by the cinematic and menacing tones of Burial&#39;s Rival Dealer, Ben Dawkins delivers this dramatic and thrilling short film.Photographed by Olivier Cariou and shot in London at night, Dawkins&#39; film, full of tension and fear, boasts a large cast headed by Osi Okerafor who plays Curtis, a drug dealer who is torn between the light and dark sides of his personality - caught up in the seedy underbelly of the capital...

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