Will Bex is a London-based cinematographer and Director of Photography working internationally across music videos, commercials and film. credits include Take That, The XX, A$AP Rocky, Kylie Minogue, Lana Del Rey, Britney Spears, Imagine Dragons, George Michael, Florence + The Machine and Robbie Williams.

Wizzo & Co.

Director of Photography

Will Bex

Legendary pop video director Vaughan Arnell returns to the medium and reunites with Take That - who he first worked with three decades ago - proceeding&nbsp;to subvert all expectations with the veteran 'boy band': he&nbsp;turns them into a rock 'n roll power trio, and then into animated versions of themselves.In the video for Sweet July, Take That&nbsp;stride onto a film stage to perform, as an old-school&nbsp;rock combo: Gary on vocals, Mark on guitar, Howard&nbsp;on drums.&nbsp;If that's the first surprise, the second is when their animated performance becomes properly animated - in several different animation styles, each one a bit more 'rock 'n roll' than the last.A minute into the video, the performance becomes an animated rendition of the performance, in the style of a black and white comic book. And that's just the start as its followed by further transformations into other comic book&nbsp;styles and textures.[imgtoken data:1]Drawing inspiration from some iconic music videos - including Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer and a-ha's Take On Me - alongside four decades of comic-book illustration, Arnell worked with&nbsp;independent artist-led VFX studio Rohtau to make this happen in the video. Three artists, based in different parts of Europe, developed each animation style under the auspices of&nbsp;Rohtau's Jordi Bares. The traditional methods of animation were then turbo-charged in their delivery by&nbsp;AI-assisted workflows.Rohtau worked closely alongside Arnell and the Merman team throughout the live action shoot of the band's performance.&nbsp;Once an edit of the live action footage was completed, the film was divided into individual sequences and assigned to the specialist artists.&nbsp;French comic-book specialist Sébastien Daniel handled the water-ink, darker ink, and colour comic-book sections, maintaining both the timeline and the visual flow; Hungary-based Zed Zara brought his expertise in textured, gritty comic-book imagery and added depth; and Linus Konetschnigin from Switzerland drew on his background in comic books, collage, paper craft, and stop-motion to help shape the more tactile, layered sections.[imgtoken data:2]Take That are so instantly recognisable, preserving their likeness while embracing bold graphic styles was central to the creative process.&nbsp;And some of the most exciting moments came from happy accidents including the large studio doors opening to cast beautiful shadows that translated into rich line-art textures across the floor."The video was inspired by the iconic videos of INXS, Peter Gabriel and a-ha - but we wanted to re-interpret that style through a contemporary AI lens," explains Arnell."Rohtau were incredible at bringing the idea to life. We had three artists from across Europe each creating different sections of the film, all coordinated by Jordi at Rohtau, so it became this genuinely collaborative process."There were hand-drawn sketches, illustrations and painted elements, all blended with different AI platforms. It ended up feeling like a real fusion of traditional craft and modern mixed-media techniques, and we were thrilled with how it all came together."

United Kingdom

Vaughan Arnell

Merman

Other Kind

Take That 'Sweet July' by Vaughan Arnell

Take That - Sweet July (Official Video)

Vaughan Arnell directs a chromatic promo for Gary Barlow and guest artists Michael Buble and&nbsp;Sebastian Yatra.Shot across three countries, the video marks another collaboration between Arnell and Barlow - one that probably began with the Take That video for Back For Good in the mid-Nineties -&nbsp;and radiates their trademark feel-good vibes.&nbsp;Switching between minimalist performance and&nbsp;kaleidoscopic dance sections, the rhythmic stylings of the track are visualised through Will Bex's&nbsp;cinematography -&nbsp;and the irresistible spark of&nbsp;energy from all three artists.&nbsp;"The video was shot in London with Gary, and then remote directing Michael in Vancouver and Sebastian in Miami," explains Vaughan.&nbsp;"Will Bex designed the lighting set up so that it could be duplicated for each artist in their respective cities - using the same camera, lenses and specifically designed moves to give it a constant look and feel."

Fred Bonham Carter

Just Fred

Final Cut

Marisa Garner Associates

Semera Khan

Gary Barlow ft Michael Buble, Sebastian Yatra 'Elita' by Vaughan Arnell

Gary-Barlow,-Michael-Buble,-Sebastian-Yatra-'Elita'-by-Vaughan-Arnell

Charlotte Rutherhood invites you to a party in the dollhouse.&nbsp;Little Mix’s latest video&nbsp;is a throwback to doll commercials of the nineties and early noughties&nbsp;- for this interpolation of Soul II Soul's smash hit Back to Life.Rutherford’s plastic, hyperreal aesthetic is in full display, and her attention to period detail is uncanny. Bounce Back&nbsp;has the frenetic energy of a Hype Williams video and the Day-Glo production design of Saturday morning commercial.&nbsp;The so-bad-it’s-good styling - hairclips, faux fur, pastels and lycra - is pure Barbie, by way of Spice Girls. And that is to say nothing of the denim ensemble. This particular look is either a treat or horror for&nbsp;anyone who was around to witness Britney and Justin’s infamous outfits at the 2001 AMAs.

Charlotte Rutherford

Agile Films

Trap

Little Mix 'Bounce Back' by Charlotte Rutherford

Little-Mix-'Bounce-Back'-by-Charlotte-Rutherford

Marc Klasfeld proves his mastery of the pop video medium with this slick and sexy video for Mabel.It features several well-designed, colour-coded setups - expertly shot by DoP Will Bex -&nbsp;as Mabel seductively changes from pink-blonde in a mirrored room, to tough black bob with her pals in a dance sequence. Hypnotically appropriate for the lustful yearning at the heart&nbsp;of Mad Love.

Marc Klasfeld

CURATED LONDON

Will Gething

Wash

Mabel 'Mad Love' by Marc Klasfeld

Mabel-'Mad-Love'-by-Marc-Klasfeld

Legendary music video director Vaughan Arnell brings his absolute A-game to this collaboration between Sam Smith and future R&amp;B pop queen Normani. It&#39;s a very classy, beautifully-crafted belter of a video.Reflecting the sultry melancholy and brooding sexuality of the song Dancing With A Stranger, solitary Sam Smith is joined in his super modern house in the wintry countryside by ghosts - or holograms who come alive within and around him. It&#39;s a very Arnell-esque way to introduce the dancers that haunt Smith, evoking the classic Fastlove video for George Michael he directed with Anthea Benton in the mid-90s.And then comes the explosively sexy Normani, whose combination of vocals and dance add a new dimension to the song and the video. You can&#39;t take your eyes off her. And although they never meet - appropriately considering the song - the production makes the two performers dovetail together perfectly. There&#39;s great work here by a whole team of people - including DoP Will Bex and Arnell&#39;s regular editor David Webb. A real treat.&nbsp;

Sam Smith & Normani 'Dancing With A Stranger' by Vaughan Arnell

Sam-Smith-X-Normani-'Dancing-With-A-Stranger'-by-Vaughan-Arnell

Bradley&amp;Pablo reunite with Charli XCX for the sultry R&amp;B groove of 5 In The Morning, making a very sexy video in a rather unlikely setting.Shot in a vast, deserted industrial warehouse at night, the duo capture Charli as a girl ready to go &quot;all in&quot;, with killer choreo, epic lighting and dramatic camerawork (provided by the redoubtable Will Bex).

Bradley&Pablo

Pulse Films

Charli XCX '5 In The Morning' by Bradley&Pablo

Charli-Xcx-'5-In-The-Morning'-by-Bradley&pablo

The original music video couple, Vaughan Arnell and Robbie Williams, are back for an incredible 16th collaboration.The Heavy Entertainment Show video sees Robbie play all the major roles in a boxing match. Ring announcer&nbsp;Robbie calls the match as two prize fighters (Robbie Vs Robbie) beat the living hell from one another in a battle of golden spit and glamorous ringside entourage complete with make-up that certainly feels like a throwback to Robbie &amp; Vaughan&#39;s Let Me Entertain You video from 1998.

Carrie Sutton

Robbie Williams 'The Heavy Entertainment Show' by Vaughan Arnell

Robbie-Williams-'The-Heavy-Entertainment-Show'-by-Vaughan-Arnell

Emil Nava keeps up his track record of delivering slick, visually rich pop performance videos with an edge.This clip for Jennifer Hudson is awash with electric blue light that drenches the vast, dilapidated space that Hudson performs in. Cutting between this sparse, striking visual and footage of Hudson making her way through a crowded rave&nbsp;is a great contrast.Somehow the rave scene manages to be visually reminiscent of the infamous &#39;hammer fight&#39; scene in Oldboy, except with more colourful partying and less hammer-based violence. No? Just me?

United States

Emil Nava

Jennifer Hudson 'Remember Me' by Emil Nava

Jennifer Hudson - Remember Me

One look at his Twitter feed will tell you&nbsp;that despite your feelings for James Blunt, the man is incredibly self-aware. And self-deprecating to a tee. A recent Blunt line went: &quot;&quot;You thought 2016 was bad? I&#39;m releasing a new album in 2017.&quot;With that as a driving force, Vaughan Arnell reunites with Blunt to provide the ideal vehicle for the album&#39;s first single Love Me Better, blending hyper-colourful pop slickness and tongue-in-cheek humour in the kind&nbsp;a location the singer knows only too well - a neon-drenched nightclub.And tonight, Blunt happens to be the least popular patron in the club - but coming to terms&nbsp;with his fate. Imagine if Nicolas Winding-Refn&#39;s&nbsp;Only God Forgives&nbsp;was actually about a 42-year-old man who can&#39;t keep up with nightclub culture despite his best intentions and you&#39;re most of the way there.

James Blunt 'Love Me Better' by Vaughan Arnell

James-Blunt-'Love-Me-Better'-by-Vaughan-Arnell

Vaughan Arnell brings a heap of style and class to proceeding in this Kate Moss-starring karaoke performance for an Elvis classic.Piling icons on top of icons here, Arnell&nbsp;(Icon Award winner at this year&#39;s UKMVAs) employs Kate Moss to lip-sync Elvis Presley&#39;s &#39;Wonder of You&#39; (backed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, no less) at none other than Abbey Road Studios.What&#39;s more, the whole thing was shot with a mix of traditional black and white, and infrared cameras - making for a uniquely stylish video proving that Arnell goes big, even for what seems, on paper, like a relatively simple performance video.

Elvis Presley 'The Wonder Of You' by Vaughan Arnell

Elvis-Presley-'The-Wonder-Of-You'-by-Vaughan-Arnell

Georgia Hudson presents a slick, exciting video for Sigma and Take That's Cry, which is surely destined to be one of the hits of the summer.Taking place in the grounds of a race track, we see stock cars and motorbikes performing all manner of stunts -&nbsp;coloured smoke billowing from somewhere underneath the car. It's a colourful and hugely impressive series of set-pieces.All the while Take That wander around, singing and observing as some young, beautiful people - including Sigma – have a lovely time playing games and dancing and all sorts. Thematically it's definitely all about the idea&nbsp;of being young, free, and kicking over the traces. And the visuals paint that picture incredibly well.

Georgia Hudson

Paul O'Reilly

Homespun

CHEAT

Pop, Dance

Sigma Ft. Take That 'Cry' by Georgia Hudson

Sigma-Ft.-Take-That-'Cry'-by-Georgia-Hudson

Emil Nava has delivered this brooding&nbsp;black and white visual treatment&nbsp;for Rudimental&#39;s Lay It On Me&nbsp;featuring Ed Sheeran, from their second album We The Generation.With an interesting photographic direction by DoP&nbsp;Will Bex, the clip speeds through rooms&nbsp;filled with various characters, including&nbsp;musicians, ballerinas, dogs, with&nbsp;clips of war tanks and explosions interspersed throughout - while vocalist&nbsp;Sheeran becomes a near-angelic&nbsp;presence.It&#39;s an ambitious&nbsp;video dealing with the big themes, and goes as far as to&nbsp;spell them out, with words like&nbsp;&quot;brotherhood,&quot; &quot;struggle&quot; and&nbsp;&quot;love&quot; flashing up on screen.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Rudimental feat. Ed Sheeran 'Lay It All On Me' by Emil Nava

Rudimental-Ft.-Ed-Sheeran-'Lay-It-All-On-Me'-by-Emil-Nava

As a member of Found, Mike Sharpe created Ellie Goulding&#39;s sun-drenched video for Burn, one of the biggest British promos of the past few years. Now&nbsp;Mike has his moment in the sun once again,&nbsp;in this dazzling promo for Take That&#39;s Let In The Sun,&nbsp;bathing the band in a brilliant light, literally.

Mike Sharpe

Take That 'Let In The Sun' by Mike Sharpe

Take-That-'Let-In-The-Sun'-by-Mike-Sharpe

Beautifully photographed in rich, vibrant hues, the Georgia Hudson-directed&nbsp;video for Ellie&nbsp;Goulding's&nbsp;Love Me Like You Do – taken from&nbsp;the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack – is composed of a steamy dance number&nbsp;(choreographed by Holly Blakey)&nbsp;between&nbsp;Goulding and her&nbsp;burly, attractive partner (Charlie Harding) interspersed with a&nbsp;montage of that&nbsp;movie we've all seen so much of lately.&nbsp;Georgia manages to deliver a video that is&nbsp;romantic,&nbsp;visually engaging and seductive.

Ellie Goulding 'Love Me Like You Do' by Georgia Hudson

Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do (Official Video)

Doubling as the official song from the new Matthew Vaughan movie&nbsp;Kingsman: Secret Service &ndash; starring&nbsp;Samuel L Jackson, Colin Firth and Michael Caine &ndash; Vaughan Arnell reunites with Take That for this all-action promo for Get Ready For It, featuring clips from the movie, and giving the boys an impressive Savile Row makeover.Gary, Mark and Howard&nbsp;are tailored-up like the best-dressed British spies,&nbsp;and perform in front of a huge pillared building on to which scenes from the film are projected to breathtaking&nbsp;effect...&nbsp;

Vid Price

Take That 'Get Ready For It' by Vaughan Arnell

Take That - Get Ready For It

Following the announcement of her return to the X Factor next month, Cheryl Cole gets back to her day job as pop star with this Colin Tilley-directed promo to the No 1 single Crazy Stupid Love.&nbsp;Tilley shoots a sultry-looking&nbsp;Cheryl and her crew performing an&nbsp;energetic routine in an underground club with a cameo from one Tinie Tempah...

Colin Tilley

Cheryl Cole 'Crazy Stupid Love' by Colin Tilley

Girl band Neon Jungle turn to Colin Tilley for direction on their fourth promo and single Louder - taken from the&nbsp;forthcoming album Welcome To The Jungle (July 28).Shot in a fabulous windowed dome-like space,&nbsp;Tilley captures the band vamping it up and delivers an all-round glamour shoot...

Neon Jungle 'Louder' by Colin Tilley

Neon-Jungle-'Louder'-by-Colin-Tilley

Little Mix channel their inner warrior in Colin Tilley&#39;s eye-catching and energetic promo for their single Salute.With some heavy styling by Holly Ounstead (costumes designed by Lydia Kovacs)&nbsp;and powered by Beth Honan&#39;s fierce choreography, the band&#39;s call to arms is a step up in their quest for world domination...

Dance

Little Mix 'Salute' by Colin Tilley

Little Mix - Salute

Robbie Williams does an Andy Williams, as&nbsp;Chris Sweeney delivers a brilliant tongue-in-cheek homage to 60s/70s American variety TV specials&nbsp;with&nbsp;his promo for Robbie&#39;s version of the Mamas &amp; The Papas&#39; classic Dream A Little Dream.&nbsp;Featuring appearances by his songwriting partner Guy Chambers and a large cast, Robbie gives yet another sterling performance, as Mr&nbsp;Sweeney piles on the Christmas cheese and thoroughly nails the vintage feel...

Chris Sweeney

Trim Editing

Robbie Williams 'Dream A Little Dream' by Chris Sweeney

Robbie Williams | Dream A Little Dream | Official Video

Hang on, this one looks vaguely familiar...&nbsp;Well, of course it does. But this is not just&nbsp;a spoof, or&nbsp;even a homage (seeing its been made by the same director). Instead here&#39;s something possibly never before attempted&nbsp;- Vaughan Arnell&#39;s new Olly Murs video for Hand On My Heart is a&nbsp;painstaking reconstruction of the video he directed for Robbie Willliams&#39; Angels in 1996 - the one that effectively launched Robbie&#39;s career.&nbsp;In fact, its an almost eerily accurate&nbsp;facsimile&nbsp;- from Olly himself, to the photography,&nbsp;and at least one crucial location, Sauton Sands.&nbsp;It does highlight a certain timeless quality in the original. And of course Robbie is in on the joke. He&nbsp;makes a cameo - with a mock-incredulous &#39;what are you doing?&#39; aimed at Murs, the young pretender...

Olly Murs 'Hand On My Heart' by Vaughan Arnell

Dawn Shadforth delivers a psychedelic, hallucinogenic assault on the senses with this kicking new video for Tinie Tempah and 2 Chainz&#39; Trampoline - showcasing all of Dawn&#39;s trademark styling...&nbsp;

Dawn Shadforth

Urban

Tinie Tempah ft 2 Chainz 'Trampoline' by Dawn Shadforth

Tinie Tempah feat 2 Chainz: Trampoline (Official video)

Sophie Muller delivers this visual feast for Pink&#39;s next single True Love featuring appearances from her&nbsp;husband Carey Hart and daughter Willow.With a cameo from guest vocalist Lily Allen seen angrily chopping carrots with a sharp knife, the video also features tour footage of Pink&#39;s impressive trapeze act and&nbsp;Pink and Hart acting out moments from the song in a series&nbsp;of Roy Lichtenstein-style pop-ups.

Sophie Muller

Pink ft Lily Allen 'True Love' by Sophie Muller

P!nk - True Love ft. Lily Allen

She&rsquo;s back &ndash; and back with Emil. Jessie J returns with Wild, the big comeback single from the long-awaited second album &ndash; together with friends Big Sean and Dizzie Rascal, and a startling new blonde suedehead cut. And it&rsquo;s all brought together in an audaciously spare visualisation by her regular director/collaborator Emil Nava.
This is all about the performance &ndash; in glorious black and white &ndash; revealing the fourth wall of a video shoot, with glorious cinematography by Will Bex and a brilliantly kinetic edit by Vid Price. And Jessie&rsquo;s remarkable, wild leopardprint outfit, styled by Anna Hughes Chamberlain.
And check out a nice behind the scenes pic <a href="http://mercedeseisalesbian.tumblr.com/post/51628154798/jessiejczech-wild-team-big-sean-jessie-j">here</a>.

Jessie J ‘Wild’ ft. Big Sean & Dizzee Rascal by Emil Nava

Jessie J 'Wild'

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2012 pop sensation Rita Ora appears immune to a nasty nuclear holocaust in Syndrome's promo to her new single Radioactive. 

Heavily styled - Rita dons a (celebrated New York fashion designer) Asher Levine space-age catsuit at one point - and with eye-popping graphics and space-age animation, Syndrome's promo takes Ms Ora to the next level...

Rita Ora 
Radioactive (Roc Nation)
Director: Syndrome
DoP: Will Bex
EP: Monica Blackburn
Producer: Cisco Newman
US Rep: This is Frank
UK Rep: Jen Herrera at <a>Las Bandas Be Brave</a>
Art Director: Sarah Ascroft-Leigh
Editor: Syndrome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI6VfwBV8Gc

Syndrome

Rita Ora 'Radioactive' by Syndrome

James Barber (formally of Luke + Barber fame and now stepping out on his own) works his magic on JLS' in this slick, sharp performance promo for new single Hottest Girl In The World.

James Barber

JLS 'Hottest Girl In The World' by James Barber

JLS-'Hottest-Girl-In-The-World'-by-James-Barber

George Michael teams up with Ryan Hope for the promo to White Light - his first recording since his near-fatal brush with pneumonia.Supermodel Kate Moss stars as a striking and mysterious angel of death, deciding the singer&#39;s fate with the toss of a coin in the midst of a standoff with armed LAPD officers.With a sharp conceptual style, the White Light video is interspersed with abstract imagery symbolising the surreal and fragile moment between life and death...

Ryan Hope

George Michael 'White Light' by Ryan Hope

Marina releases her inner vixen and engages in mind games with her male suitor, all gorgeously filmed by DP Will Bex.

Caspar Balslev

Marina And The Diamonds 'Power And Control' by Casper Balslev

Rebecca Ferguson 'Glitter & Gold' by Syndrome

Wizard-Sleeve’s-Get-Down-Tonight-by-Thomas-Goldser

Rebecca-Ferguson-'Glitter-&-Gold'-by-Syndrome

Boasting exceptional performances from both Rita Ora and Tinie Tempah, Emil Nava delivers a striking promo for Rita's debut as a solo artist with excellent photography from Will Bex.

Rita Ora ft. Tinie Tempah 'R.I.P.' by Emil Nava

Helena Bonham-Carter shines as the lonesome librarian being left on the bookshelf in Phil Andelman's video for Rufus Wainwright's charming Out Of The Game.
But it's Rufus who gets to ham it up playing three characters who get up to all sorts of shenanigans in the reading room - the London Zoo library, no less... 

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=6KvTDeHlIfI

Phil Andelman

Partizan

Rufus Wainwright 'Out Of The Game' by Phil Andelman

Rufus-Wainwright-'Out-Of-The-Game'-by-Phil-Andelman

Phil Griffin

James Morrison 'Slave To The Music' by Phil Griffin

James-Morrison-'Slave-To-The-Music'-by-Phil-Griffin

Phil Griffin has directed no less than three videos for James Morrison, for songs from his new album The Awakening, serviced through Partizan and produced by MVA nominee Leanne Stott. Here are two of them, for Up - featuring Jessie J - and I Won't Let You Go.
The third, for Slave, is out in the new year in the UK.

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=LWgQ-wiPls4

http://www.youtube.com/watchv=sgRb_lfIZ6A&amp;ob=av2e

James Morrison 'Up' (feat. Jessie J) and I Won't Let You Go by Phil Griffin

James-Morrison-'Up'-(feat.-Jessie-J)-and-I-Won't-Let-You-Go-by-Phil-Griffin

In this modern gothic chiller for The Celebration by Black Black Hills (the band formerly known as Saint Joan), an illegal metal detectorist (a 'Nighthawk') plunders secluded parts of the land... with dire consequences. 
It was directed by Blac Ionica. "Upon hearing the track we felt inspired to create something that was firmly rooted in British folklore. 'The Celebration' is a thematically and emotively dark sounding song and we wanted to tell a simple but very cinematic and gripping story that would focus on the atmosphere of the track without being a literal translation of the lyrics. 
"As the track is so evocative and visual, we really felt that to do the song any justice we needed to tell a story."

Blac Ionica

Black Black Hills 'The Celebration' by Blac Ionica

Will Young's ethereal dance ballad Jealousy gets a tale of unrequited love from Diamond Dogs, beautifully shot by Will Bex.
Diamond Dogs: "One of the spectacular joys of music video is that every now and then two worlds collide. In this case, Diamond Dogs and producer Gareth Thomas had to brush up on the world of acrobatics and circus skills. 
"They chose to work with high level hand to hand acrobats Nathan and Isis alongside artists on the flying trapeze. These incredibly committed and hard working athletes were joined by the funny, fit and fabulous Will Young. So although the shoot was a long and physically challenging one for everyone involved - working with such consummate professionals from both worlds made it one of the most enjoyable and rewarding shoots we have experienced in ages".

Diamond Dogs

Will Young 'Jealousy' by Diamond Dogs

Following on from the indie-comedy promo for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2011/04/21/olly-murs%E2%80%99-busy-by-corin-hardy/" target="_blank">Busy</a>, Corin Hardy is back with Olly Murs (and the Rizzle Kicks) on Heart Skips A Beat, where the action moves to Mile End skate park for some English summer fun (amazingly its not actually raining) featuring adept young skateboarders and an oversized turntable.
Corin's most poptastic video yet - no question him and Olly have a good thing going on.

Corin Hardy

Academy Films

Olly Murs 'Heart Skips A Beat' by Corin Hardy

Olly-Murs-'Heart-Skips-A-Beat'-by-Corin-Hardy

Saam's new one for Tom Vek's Aroused is smokin'...

Saam Farahmand

Tom Vek 'Aroused' by Saam Farahmand

X Factor finalist Cher Lloyd works with Mike Sharpe and Marcus Moresby on the promo to her all-important debut single Swagger Jagger. 
Something of a sea-change from The Found Collective's trio of promos for Pendulum last year, Mike and Marcus turn in a bright, pure pop part-animated big production featuring a large cast with Lloyd giving a confident performance.

Mike Sharpe & Marcus Mores

Cher Lloyd 'Swagger Jagger' by Mike Sharpe & Marcus Moresby

Cher-Lloyd-'Swagger-Jagger'-by-Mike-Sharpe-&-Marcus-Moresby

Alex and Liane get to grips with the big widescreen pop of new Polydor signing Clare Maguire for her single The Last Dance with this similarly epic promo - complete with dramatic fireworks and sinister gathering clouds. Very Close Encounters...

AlexandLiane

Clare Maguire’s The Last Dance by AlexandLiane

Clare-Maguire’s-The-Last-Dance-by-AlexandLiane

For Westlife's new single Safe, Sean De Sparengo lays on a cinematic sheen to enhance this big sounding ballad.
De Sparengo: "I wanted to create a video for this track that a had strong emotional connect as well as the expected performance aspect, so it just seemed right to develop key scenes that featured each of the guys in dramatic and hopefully moving situations. 
"Big American TV dramas often tie up a season finale by cutting together the most emotive story-lines and then laying it against a powerful pop track to really tug on the old heartstrings and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to push in that direction. 

Watch: <a href="http://coy-com.com/download/sean/reels/01_west_life_safe_081110_stream.mov" target="_blank">Quicktime Movie</a>
Westlife <a href="http://www.westlife.com" target="_blank">website</a>

Sean De Sparengo

Westlife’s Safe by Sean De Sparengo

This time round in the ongoing adventures of The Hoosiers - courtesy of regular collaborators Diamond Dogs (Phil Sansom and Olly Williams) - the band are rugged jeep-driving explorers in a volcanic land where Time forgot. They've even lost the mullets and got action hero haircuts. But there's plenty of hair elsewhere in Phil and Olly's fifth video for the band.
The Dogs do a fine job at making a quarry in Derbyshire look like a rocky outcrop east of Java, and the hairy monster-dancers are marvellous.

The Hoosiers’ Unlikely Hero by Diamond Dogs

With live projections by Frieder Weiss, the 'engineer of the arts' known for developing software like <a href=" http://frieder-weiss.de/eyecon/index.html " target="_blank">Eyecon</a> that uses human motion to trigger other media.

Kylie Minogue’s Get Outta My Way by AlexandLiane

Some nice animated touches, effective slo-mo and good art direction (by James Hatt) in this poptastic and colourful treatment for Scissor Sisters' next single Any Which Way from Ace Norton.
<a href="http://feed.partizan.com/scissor-sisters-go-any-which-way-with-ace-nor" target="_blank">Interview</a> with Ace about the video

Ace Norton

Scissor Sisters’ Any Which Way by Ace Norton

The Hoosiers unveil a new synth-pop direction with Choices, and following their highly successful partnership on the band&#39;s first-album hits they&#39;ve aptly turned once again to Phil Sansom and Olly Williams (aka Diamond Dogs) to translate their distinctive blend of dorkiness and catchy pop to the smallscreen.Having raided movie genres on Worried About Ray, Goodbye Mr A and Cops And Robbers, Phil and Olly have moved things along by combining a couple of influences: a Far East booze ad re Lost In Translation morphs into a Hong Kong kung fu B-movie. And a little dash of self-mockery brings the band&#39;s essential charm into focus.

The Hoosiers’ Choices by Diamond Dogs

The-Hoosiers’-Choices-by-Diamond-Dogs

Shot at the site of Battersea Power Station in South London, the promo for the second Boyzone single from the platinum album Brother, is said to be causing quite a stir amongst their vast fanbase. Possibly something to do with the gratuitous display of naked flesh...

Boyzone’s Love Is A Hurricane by Phil Griffin

Boyzone’s-Love-Is-A-Hurricane-by-Phil-Griffin

Blurring a few boundaries, with interactivity that genuinely adds something to the mix, Arno Salters at Stink Digital has created this promo for Diesel's Spring/Summer line (and Be Stupid manifesto) for Anomaly in London, which also doubles as the debut video for breaking musical talent Josep Xorto and his forthcoming single A Hundred Lovers. 
Very cool, because it doesn't shout about how cool it is.

Stink Films

Arno Salters

Diesel: Spring Summer/Josep's A Hundred Lovers by Arno Salters

Recorded as the title track to new teen superhero movie Kiss Ass starring Nicholas Cage, the slick promo by Jim Canty features Mika cast as the Clark Kent of the piece. 
Shot against a city skyline and woven into clips from the film, Mika does his best to out-perform the entire cast.

Jim Canty

Mika's Kick Ass by Jim Canty

Cheryl Cole’s Parachute by AlexandLiane

Cheryl-Cole’s-Parachute-by-AlexandLiane

Kinga translates Marina's quirky pop with a full-on, tongue-in-cheek literal reading of the lyric, and there's an equally fun, cheeky performance from sure-to-be-huge Welsh singer-songwriter (who really does look like Catherine Zeta in this).
The single is scheduled to be released just ahead of their debut album The Family Jewels in February next year.

Kinga Burza

Marina And The Diamonds’ Hollywood by Kinga Burza

Robbie is in Wonderland - and so are the Dogs. 
Phil Sansom and Olly Williams aka Diamond Dogs, having spent most of the year working on their new short film, return to promos with a beautifully made, satisfyingly slow burn of comic surrealism for Rob - who makes a utterly charming White Rabbit.
It's proper good stuff - and great to see Phil and Olly at last getting the chance to show what they can do with a decent budget. If only to hear the rigger calling out "Oi Olly, which way do you want your carrot to swing"....

Olly Williams on the making of the video for Robbie Williams' You Know Me

Robbie Williams’ You Know Me by Diamond Dogs

It's sexy, as you might expect with a video for Peaches - but even though the styling is very Spiders From Mars, not in an ironic way. 
Kinga Burza's video for I Feel Cream is also hypnotically gorgeous, with experimental camerawork, projections, and vision-mixing - all achieved on a smidgeon, as she explains below. 
In short, it's a lovely thing - and you will be feeling it.

Kinga Burza on making the video for Peaches' I Feel Cream
"When Sasha [Nixon, Partizan's head of video] first played me I Feel Cream I became excited by a fresh, softer and sensual sound from Peaches that we haven't heard before, and saw an opportunity to match it visually. 
"We were particularly restricted on this one budget-wise but Will Bex and I were always attracted to the opportunity to be experimental with this project, have some fun and do something we weren't normally able to do in pop video. Although we managed to wrangle in a couple of amazing giant-sized projectors as a favour and a decent number of willing and excited crew, we couldn't afford to shoot prime HDV so we made a conscious decision to embrace the low-fi digi quality, rather than try to make it feel like it was pretending to be something it wasn't. 
"I'd always wanted to experiment with a vintage vision mixer so Peaches become our perfect culprit. She's not exactly the type to have any qualms about working a camera sans beauty lighting, high quality format or prime lenses. Instead she gave us her best in our tiny photographic studio, the same morning as she flew into London post-gigging in Ibiza, whilst we pointed handheld Hi 8 and DV cameras at her, simultaneously feeding it into a mixer and recording my amateur mixing performances on tape. 
"We couldn't afford gels (it was really tight!) so we took advantage of our amazing projectors, using them as light sources, washing Peaches in moving lights from carefully prepared abstract Quicktimes courtesy of on-set editor Jo Apps, as well as using the projectors to project previous takes of Peaches back onto herself, whilst I mixed between Camera A and B, which were fed both through the mixer. 
"We were also really lucky we managed to wrangle some brilliant samples from normally difficult-to-impress fashion press offices. It's a video that really gained a lot from Peaches' ability to express herself in dramatic metallic shoulders, cut out leotards and thigh-high, lace up Louis Vuitton boots, taking you back to those early but exciting Bowie videos that were merely a wonderful performance of a red-headed David against a white wall wearing blue shadow. I knew if we were forced to go minimal, we were best to make a statement! 
"Darren Baldwin and I then attempted to make the final result as interesting as possible by building the cut, creatively and musically so that visually we were able to compliment the greatest track on the album as best as we could."

Peaches’ I Feel Cream by Kinga Burza

David's second video for Little Boots, following the hugely successful <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2009/07/31/little-boots%e2%80%99-remedy-by-david-wilson/">Remedy</a>, centres around Boots communing with the cosmos, and features Hubble-quality scenes of awesome galactic activity created by Flame artist Judy Roberts and After Effects whizz Christopher Bristow at Munky. 
And it also features another ingenious Wilson-developed technique that creates the impression that water droplets are levitating and hovering in mid-air. It was achieved by synchronizing the framerate of the camera to that of dripping stream of water. Each droplet is unique, but has been captured with such precision that it gives the impression of a single droplets being held mid-flight. 
As with his MVA-winning promo for Moray McLaren's <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2009/04/28/moray-mclaren%e2%80%99s-we-got-time-by-david-wilson/">We Got Time</a>, the effect wasn't created through stop-motion animation techniques, or through computer trickery, but was matched live on set with a camera turning over at 12 frames per second in order to allow the artist to lip-sync and interact with the water in real time.

David Wilson

Little Boots’ Earthquake by David Wilson

Gorgeous, hypnotic and decidedly homicidal fashion film from Alex Turvey, commissioned by Dazed &amp; Confused and featured as part of onedotzero and Dazed's Fashion in Film programme at the BFI - set to the gorgeous and hypnotic Swimming by Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Power. 
Clothes designed by Nathan Jenden, Rupert Sanderson, Hannah Marshall, Louise Goldin &amp; Manjit Deu, wigs and hair by the Sensational Charlie Le Mindu, props by MADE. And ultimately quite reminiscent of Anton Corbijn's great video for Nirvana's Heart Shaped Box. Aww.

Will Bex

Director of Photography

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