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Sam Jordan

In James Sharpe's video for Frankie and the Heartstrings' Everybody Looks Better, Frankie and the boys abandon their smoking motor in a field, and then are picked off one-by-one by a couple of predatory country girls - all in a single take.
"We shot in rural Nottinghamshire in a place called Gotham," says James. "The location we used we found by accident one evening after dark - and being resourceful my producer Russell found a farmer's number and called the next day and somehow managed to get permission to shoot on the land.
"The actual day of shooting was fraught with a battle with time and light - the sun choosing only that day that week not to come out, plus the cold stiffened the nice old lens we were using to shoot with (a focus pullers nightmare.) We rehearsed the video for roughly three hours, using a 7D before getting the RED and steadicam into action. We managed to shoot five full takes, and we went for the third take in the end. 
"It was a bit of a headache of logistics, not only moving the camera, the band and our actresses around within the frame, but also them and the rest of the crew dashing around behind the frame, but it was fun. I aim to do more one take videos in the future of increasing complexity!"

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=GwtVXg42vEg&amp;sns=em

James Sharpe

Emma Dalesman

Greg Mcleod

Mick Scott

Jake Martin

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Tony Redman

Frankie & The Heartstrings - Everybody Looks Better (In The Right Light) by James Sharpe 

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An engaging promo for Norwich band Bearsuit's Princess You're A Test by James Sharpe - which required him shooting the band over the course of one night in a Norfolk forest, from dusk to dawn... 

"The idea was to have a story about the band being tormented by a forest dwelling princess/spirit - drawing on some of the imagery in the songs on their Phantom Forest album - who puts the band through a series of bizarre tests and to do a really layered, kinetic and surreal edit to create a sense of the kind of unhinged panic you get in a nightmare. 
"The princess is played by Ellie Jones from Norwich band Fever Fever. We shot from 7pm to 7am in a forest in Norwich with one camera and one light, in the pitch dark. We all went slightly mad."

http://youtu.be/mu0kDDHCZIQhd=1

Owen Davies

Sam Hawker

Bearsuit 'Princess You're A Test' by James Sharpe

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Sam Jordan

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