Director of Photography

Samuel Meyer

Directing duo Tearjerker&nbsp;-&nbsp;Hope Elliott Kemp and Ronan Corrigan - reunite with indie rock band The Academic for a&nbsp;cinematic tribute to the heist film genre.&nbsp;Set inside a bookies, the promo for new single Pushing Up Daisies&nbsp;stars the band as dejected gamblers, completely oblivious to a robbery going on around them.The second in a planned trilogy of videos for album Sitting Pretty, the video was shot at an abandoned electricity board in Bethnal Green, with an ambitious and very well-executed set build from scratch by production designer Ben Clark.&nbsp;In a big step up in scale for the directors, the video features thrilling action scenes, brilliant stunt work and a rather creepy set of costumes, and perfectly blends the offbeat conceptual elements of their previous collaborations with the group.[imgtoken data:1]“One of our favourite challenges is figuring out how we can fit the artists into the worlds we create," say TEARJERKER.&nbsp;"Bookies are grim places where dreams go to die, so we loved the idea of juxtaposing the high octane heist with the soul-destroyed punters whose lives revolve around the bet.“A lot of artists are nervous about doing anything other than a traditional performance video, but The Academic have&nbsp;never said ‘no’ to our weirdest ideas. At this point we’ve shot the band stuck inside washing machines, vending machines, a freezer, an abandoned water park and possibly the hardest challenge yet, on Zoom."For Sitting Pretty we wanted to push everything further and create a full cinematic world around the album."&nbsp;

Ben Clark

Erin Rose Arthurs

TEARJERKER

Ben Pengilly

Great Guns

Michael Whitham

Max Hodgkinson

Kate Phillips

Pol Gill Dir

Deniz Yildiz

Nevzat Altinisik

Adam Richard

Shauna Taggart

Ollie Davis

Elements Fx

Capitol/Universal Music

The Academic 'Pushing Up Daisies' by Tearjerker

The Academic - Pushing Up Daisies

Alfie Templeman meets a strange creature who needs his help, in Thomas Davis' charming promo for Everybody's Gonna Love Somebody.&nbsp;Waking up in an&nbsp;extraterrestrial environment,&nbsp;Alfie meets a fuzzy alien in an abandoned car, and proceeds to drive across the planet to help him find his AWOL love interest.&nbsp;It's a refreshing take on the buddy road-trip concept, and very much in line with Alfie's style and down to Earth - pun intended&nbsp;- personality.&nbsp;DoP&nbsp;Samuel Meyer matches the abstract concept with a colour palette of burnt orange and teal, and makes use of the abundant natural light to create a rich, cinematic&nbsp;aesthetic.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;

Samuel Meyer

Director of Photography

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