Director of Photography

Tom Townend

Dear Mr Quistgaard&rsquo;s new music video for XL boss Richard Russell&#39;s project Everything Is Recorded features vocalist&nbsp;Obongjayar being well and truly duffed up by female members of the British Olympic Judo team - but he still manages to continue to lipsync the track.It&#39;s part of a broader Japanese theme in Dear Mr Quistgaard&#39;s video for She Said - that was shot by DoP Tom&nbsp;Townend, making a fairly rare return to music videos. Russell and fellow featured artist Kamasi Washington also cameo in the video, but the star of show is definitely Obongjayar (aka Steven Omoh) and the judo women.&nbsp;&quot;Obongjayar is just such a positive force,&quot; Russell has said.&nbsp;&quot;At the point we recorded the song he had no studio experience but he had great energy and instincts, the song was written and recorded spontaneously, then and there. Making the video was a blast, Steven (Obongjayar) got beaten up by some badass female martial artists, and I got to use my bonsai skills.&rdquo;

Tom Hardiman

Lee Groombridge

Somesuch

Maddy Perkins

Fouad Gaber

Trim Editing

Shaun Fenn

Andy Duncan

Darrel McGuian

Verity May Lane

Jess Summer

XL Recordings

Everything Is Recorded 'She Said' by Dear Mr Quistgaard

Tim Burton has now directed his second video for The Killers (after 2006&#39;s Ray Harryhausen-inspired <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMulkrbTNU0" target="_blank">Bones</a>) and this one for Here With Me, reunites the über-director with an early muse, and connects him with a young actor who looks a readymade fixture in Burton movies for years to come. Craig Roberts &ndash; the kid from Richard Ayoade&#39;s debut feature Submarine &ndash; does his deadpan thing as the obsessive and rather creepy fan of a fairground performer &ndash; played by Winona Ryder. Produced by Th2ng &ndash; which has worked with Burton on many of his film&#39;s title sequences - the video was shot in various locations in Blackpool, and inspired by the song lyrics and 1935 horror movie Mad Love &ndash; starring Peter Lorre. Roberts is a bit of a Lorre-alike &ndash; although the sense that he would make a great (if youngish) Uncle Fester is confirmed in the final moments of the video, when Tim delivers a lighthearted curveball...

Tim Burton

th1ng th2ng

Hannah Cooper

Alex Bedford

David Balfour

Chris Lebenzon

The Killers 'Here With Me' by Tim Burton

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With nearly 3 million hits on Youtube and one of the most anticipated releases of 2011, Adele&#39;s opening gambit for the forthcoming 21 album campaign, is the earthy Brit-soul of Rolling In The Deep accompanied by an excellent promo by Sam Brown.With all departments turning in great work, this classy well-shot promo has some nice touches throughout, including some Jurassic Park-style water ripples masking the kick drum and a nice bit of slow-mo on the dancer in the white powder, all building in intensity to suit the escalating soundtrack.

Sam Brown

Flynn

Hannah Chandler

Natalie Bayle

Jez Oakley

Gabi Norland

Nathan Parker

Gaelle Paul

Art Jones

Phil Lee

Work Editorial

Michael Ashton

Adele 'Rolling In The Deep' by Sam Brown

UK-Music-Video-Awards-2011-–-all-of-last-night’s-winners!

Watch: <a href="http://www.colonelblimp.com/view-video/item2522/">here</a>

Chris Sweeney

Tamsin Glasson

Colonel Blimp

Ben Ansell

Susan Hildebrandt

Claire Missingham

Darren Baldwin

Gary and Chris

Mike O'Keefe

Will Young’s Hopes And Fears by Chris Sweeney

Tom &amp; Tabitha

Partizan

Paul Weston

Leanne Stott

Sam Tidman

Aldene Johnson

James Bamford

Byron Wooffindin

Ailsa Robertson

Florence & The Machine’s You Got The Love by Tom & Tabitha

Extremely lo-fi video by Doug Hart for the Manics, hailing the spirit and creativity of their long-departed, highly charismatic bandmate Richie Edwards.
And that's Jenny Saville's painting Stare behind the band, which features on the cover of the new album - but was considered unsuitable, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watchv=s-9UOD7IhI8&amp;NR=1">effectively banned</a> by UK supermarkets. Which is possibly why I didn't see it in Tesco's yesterday whilst purchasing my weekly copy of Nuts.

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HSI London

Douglas Hart

Juliette Larthe

Lou Corcoran

Dave Webb

Rushes

Dan Millar

Manic Street Preachers’ Jackie Collins by Douglas Hart

Manic-Street-Preachers’-Jackie-Collins-by-Douglas-Hart

Enter Shikari find themselves in a spot of bother in Shane Davey's video for Juggernauts - being tied to posts in the blazing desert while ominous cloaked pygmies lurk in the distance.
Shane and crew created it all in the studio, but that's okay - it's a metaphor. And the photography (by Tom Townend) and grade make it look pulsatingly hot anyway.
"It was commissioned the day before the Easter bank holiday, whilst the band were being signed to Atlantic and Claire was suffering from the most terrible cold, giving us one 'school day' to book almost an entire shoot," explains Shane.
"The addition of the cloaked people or 'Jawas' as they became known, happened over the bank holiday weekend, but luckily Hannah Edwards jumped to the rescue knocking up some great costumes for the little people - the band's eight-year old brothers - to wear."

Davey Inc.

Shane Davey

Gail Davey

Aimee P

Vid Price

Aubrey Woodiwiss

OB Management

Claire Stubbs

Enter Shikari’s Juggernauts by Shane Davey

The music video campaign since Take That's comeback has been superb - strongly instrumental in elevating them once again into a nation's affections.
But this is still quite a surprise: a Take That video so grittily realistic one can almost sense the guiding hand of a Ken Loach or Shane Meadows. Actually Dan Wolfe, quite possibly inspired by the song's hefty nod to Oasis, has conjured this timeless English scene of honest fun - the street party - and come up with an image of the band that's even cooler - as a four-man Chas &amp; Dave. Masterstroke.
It was shot in Croydon, and it was cold (but, you'll notice, not snowing) and like the rest of Dan's work, it's a proper slice of music vid cinema. Just like in the good ol' days...

Daniel Wolfe

Hannah Edwards

Dom Leung

Marcelo

Simon Bourne

Ross Anderson

Take That’s Up All Night by Daniel Wolfe

Keane's new video is a polished, high tech affair by Grant Gee, in one of his infrequent, always notable forays into music videos.
Of course it's largely a sideline from Grant's main task of being the king of music docs. He's made two classics of the genre: Meeting People Is Easy (about Radiohead circa OK Computer), and Joy Division. The latter recently picked up the UK Film Council's best cinema documentary prize at the 2008 Grierson British Documentary Awards.
Of course Grant's made at least one classic video too: Radiohead's No Surprises - the making of which is chronicled in Meeting People Is Easy. And that's brilliantly homaged - video and making of - by Stuart Lanceley's entry in Adam &amp; Joe's Video Wars (and featured by Adam at BUG 10): <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watchv=sDz4rBV-ACo">The Meatballs Song</a>.

Factory Films

Grant Gee

Claire Oxley

Chris Lightburn

Jerry Ch

UNIT

Dilly Gent

Keane’s Perfect Symmetry by Grant Gee

Keane’s-Perfect-Symmetry-by-Grant-Gee

This side project of Joe Corré of Agent Provocateur, "Filthy" Luca Mainardi and Mick Jones revives the lovely sound of London's dirty water blues, pub rock, and all that jazz. Doug Hart gives it the full sleazy pop art film treatment, with girls cavorting in their fine lingerie from M&amp;S.
Just kidding there. All these saucy undergarments are surely available from Agent Provoc outlets everywhere this festive season.
This fashion-music vid thing could definitely take off...

Doug Hart

Malachy McAnenny

Agent Provoc

Dirty Stop Out’s Apache Girl by Douglas Hart

A properly grown-up Craig David enjoys a moody makeover and credibility boost, in his neon-lit digital lust-box, courtesy of Sarah Chatfield.
Characteristically Sarah conjures something superior, slick and atmospheric from a minimal look and simple yet cool visual effects - plus significant girl action.
And possibly most important of all: those sunglasses.

Sarah Chatfield

Charlotte Woodhead

Celestine Cooney

Carol Hart

Nikki Porter

George

Alan Parks[/pay]

Craig David's Insomnia by Sarah Chatfield

New pop-soulboy Bryn Christopher gets the Sam Brown treatment.
That is: a distinctive, ambitious, even a bit weird take on the ol' pop video.
With dancing girls who arrive in a couple of Dodge Vipers in kabuki-mask makeup, bearing flares and glitter - and Bryn rather commendably wearing silver shoes...

Flynn
Director

Rachel Rumbold

Nick Allix

Bryn Christopher's Smilin' by Sam Brown

The Verve are back, with substantial support from Sam Brown.Lots of vignettes, including North Korean dance footage (the best thing going before Beijing) and a fantastically-shot falconry sequence.Which makes up for the fact Richard Ashcroft clearly lost the use of his legs during the course of the shoot.

Flynn Productions

Sam Brown (director)

Gregg Shoulder

The Verve's Love Is Noise by Sam Brown

Poor old Lily Cole. She and several of her lovely model pals are being imaginatively despatched by some cruel maniac who might well possibly be George Michael.
Sorry, I mean Bobby Gillespie - even though Kim Gehrig's highly enjoyable lurid romp could easily be interpreted (by me) as a wonderfully perverted distortion of George's famous yet unspeakably boring model-fest video for Freedom all those years ago.
However, as Kim explains below, it was really inspired by Italian horror movies.[pay]

Kim Gehrig on making the video for Primal Scream's Can't Go Back
"When I was researching this video I spent an entire weekend locked up in my flat watching Italian horror movies. I was home alone and by Sunday night I was so completely freaked out, I couldn't even go to the shop for milk, and had to drink black coffee...
"Bobby was so great to work with. He really got into the idea - although he was pretty keen to be the one to kill the girls himself, and it took a little while to talk him round!
"Bobby is very original in the way he performs and incredibly compelling to watch. The idea of the coloured light corridor was to give him an unusual stage on which to perform. I wanted him to be the central force in the video, and for it to feel like he was almost willing the deaths.
"Katy England styled the video and we went for a subtle 70's vibe. We managed to get great models to star in the deaths - Lily Cole, Alice Dellal, Rosemary Fergusson and Kiera Gormley. Very easy on the eye, and by the way big up the fabulous hair and make-up team of Petros Petrohilos and Eamonn Hughes.
"We shot the video in this really fucked up location; it used to be a training school for monks and while I'm not normally superstitious, it was quite creepy to see all these rooms with the shape of faded crosses on the walls. They also train police dogs there as well, so you never knew what might happen as you walked around the corner...
"The final image of each death was really important. I wanted each one to be almost like the murderer was an artist creating images. I think Lily's chandelier hat is my favourite.
"Tom Townend and I got into the 'giallo' mood with the colourful lighting. We wanted to use strong colours, a bit psychedelic without it becoming too sickly. The art direction, by Gregg Shoulder, also had that retro feel. The most difficult thing was probably constructing the rig for the chandelier to land on Lily's head."[/pay]

Academy Films

Kim Gehrig

Sally Campbell

Eamonn Hughes

Petros Petrohilos

John McManus

Adam Scott / Seamus O'Kane

The Mill

Tim Nash

Primal Scream’s Can’t Go Back by Kim Gehrig

The Kills take to beating the living shit out of each other in Sophie Muller&#39;s third video for the band.Having no idea that it was now perfectly fine for guys to hit girls - even if you&#39;re a bit weedy like Jamie Hince - Promonews asked Sophie Muller all about it.Sophie Muller on making The Kills&#39; Last Day Of Magic videoPromo: Those cuts and bruises look like they hurt, and Alison and Jamie do look really shaken up at various times. So how real was that fightingSophie Muller: It&#39;s ALL acting...the &#39;shaken up&#39; is acting, the fighting was real in that they were actually doing it but there was no actual physical violence. The make up artist was great she did all that in the streets with a hand held light in about five minutes.Did you ever think: &quot;hang on a minute, that&#39;s too much&quot;Never. I probably kept saying &#39;more, more&#39;. I never felt there was any real danger of injury. They were amazing like that.Where did the idea come from Real tensions between The KillsNo, actually it came from the first video I did with them, U R A Fever, where I really liked their physicality with each other. It was very playful and natural and they both had a great understanding of energy in front of a camera. I&#39;d also seen footage of them live, where they have a great on stage chemistry, and I felt I hadn&#39;t captured their intensity in the other two videos I had done.Was there a girlfriend on the sidelines egging them on...No.When and where did you shoot thisWe shot in Barcelona, as they were on tour and we had to pick a date that would work. We knew the live venue would be easy to film in also. Not always a given. And Spain is always great to film in. It was really easy and nice.What are you up to now, what&#39;s coming upTravelling a lot and dodging dodgy video offers.Are they any videos out there that you really like at the moment (in other words, want to do a Playlist for Promonews)I like the Gnarls Barclay video &#39;Going On&#39;.(Guess that&#39;s a &#39;no&#39; then...)[/pay]

Sophie Muller

Rob Small

Owen Oppenheimer

Tom Russell

The Kills’ Last Day Of Magic by Sophie Muller

The Kills - Last Day of Magic (2008)

After their hugely successful collaboration with <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2008/01/22/duffys-mercy-by-daniel-wolfe/" _blank="">Mercy</a>, Duffy and Daniel Wolfe reunite for the follow-up video. And no mods with flaming strides this time. 
This is powerful, intense stuff - surprisingly so. There's nothing fake about those tears.

Grace Bodie

Tom Lindsay

Cynthia

Duffy's Warwick Avenue by Daniel Wolfe

Those Amy comparisons are coming thick and fast, but Mike Baldwin's video for this precocious Australian/Italian singer-songwriter (just 15 apparently) has a light-hearted spirit not often spotted in a Winehouse vid. 
Gabriella's men are all tied up. But at least they're not banged up.

Therapy Films

Michael Baldwin

Georgina Fillmore

Simone Grattarola

Marisa Garner Associates

Gabriella Cilmi's Sweet About Me by Mike Baldwin

Never mind the vocoders, because it's true, Does It Offend You are proper rockstars. That much is obvious from Dan Wolfe's jumpin' performance vid, photographed with his customary brilliance by Tom Townend.
So that's the second superbly shot video of the day then...

Sarah Tognazzi

Glassworks

Jane Skinner

Does It Offend You, Yeah?'s Rockstars by Dan Wolfe

We love a bit of ancient mythology, and with possibly his first stab at a narrative video, Saam characteristically throws caution to the wind with the whole shebang of Doric columns, Grecian gowns, lots of swirling mist and, of course, orgies.
It-girl Jamie Winston looks confused, Antony Hegarty sounds great, and we know something bad but sexy is going to happen...

Saam Farahmand

Chris Chesney

Mark Gethin

Ziggy

Hercules and Love Affair's Blind by Saam

The big soul voice of Duffy gets a big mod workout for her first single from Dan Wolfe. With a special extra something. 
It's a Sixties disco inferno, and the stunt work is astonishing. That's gotta hurt...

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