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Ynez Myers

Joe Wheatley directs an idiosycratic and mysterious&nbsp;road movie&nbsp;for Ben Woods, aka The Golden Dregs.The black and white promo for Before We Fell From Grace opens with two characters travelling by foot across a wintry landscape. One of the pair - played by dancer Joe Grey Adams - is dressed entirely in white, and leads the other in&nbsp;a flamboyant folk-dance,&nbsp;seemingly inspired by some kind of otherworldly force.&nbsp;They reach a lake, and then the&nbsp;other character - played by Woods - pulls out a mysterious object. They walk further across the terrain through woods to a place where this enigmatic journey reaches its climax.[imgtoken data:1]"Ben approached me after Mark Jenkin, my old university lecturer and friend,&nbsp;never got back to him - and I don’t mind that at all," says Joe Wheatley. "He had some key references such as Bait, Paris&nbsp;Texas and True Stereo, my video for Willie J Healey. If there’s anything I might know how to do it’s people wandering around in places."I loved the track. He’s an extremely talented artist and fellow Falmouth graduate. I had some pretty heavy duty darker ideas that he liked but we ultimately settled on this kind of meditation on loss. Initially Ben wanted to find a body but we settled on the thing in the video that I still don’t know how to describe but the amazing prop maker, Rosie Tonkin, seemed to be telepathic and absolutely smashed it.&nbsp;"For the majority of my filmmaking I’m having the most fun dreaming up a project and then executing it. My enthusiasm wanes when I cross the finish line as I’m often worried if it’s any good or not. This project has been the exact opposite for me. Our first shoot day was cancelled midway through. We then waited a month whilst Ben was on tour to complete the shoot."As the sands of time rolled on to our second shoot day we battled with daylight saving hours, some of the worst rain I’ve experienced, a pheasant shoot holding us up and Ben getting an unauthorised haircut. Needless to say I was thrilled to get this one across the line."

United Kingdom

Joe Grey Adams

Cassie Walker Graham

Joe Wheatley

OB Management

Agile Films

Sophie Hall

Joe Cook

Sana Khan

Precious Mahaga

Joe Mulvihill

Corey Milo

Milo Brown

Riccardo Angei

Adam Jones

Jason Wallis

Electric Theatre Collective

4AD Records

Rosie Tonkin

Lulu Johnson

Indie

Alternative

Singer-songwriter

The Golden Dregs 'Before We Fell From Grace' by Joe Wheatley

The-Golden-Dregs-'Before-We-Fell-From-Grace'-by-Joe-Wheatley

Maisie Peters feels suffocated by an egotistical love interest in the stylish promo for Not Another Rockstar.&nbsp;We all know the type. Beautiful to look at, heart-meltingly charming and exciting - but a real piece of work in every other way.&nbsp;Maisie laments this archetype as she runs around an empty theatre with a guy who just won't stop getting between her and the camera, pushing her aside for a moment in the spotlight.“We need hugs, not a pretty babe that doesn’t care about our feelings!" declares Keshtmand. "This is a real telling off to those trashy lovers and wannabe rockstar heartbreakers."&nbsp;Fashionable, theatrical and fun, it's a brilliant video with plenty of attitude to boot.

Stefania Lucchesi

Maycie Ann

Alizee Levrino

Luci Ellis

Lux Artists

Avesta Keshtmand

Nychollas Abreu

Dan Curwin

Benjamin Leggett

Natasha Duursma

Ali Copland

Joe Hunt

Jonny Lewis

Michael Mroczek

Elizabeth Rita

Joe Corrie

Jonny Tully

CHEAT

Reece Litchfield

Atlantic Records

Maisie Peters 'Not Another Rockstar' by Avesta Keshtmand

Maisie-Peters-'Not-Another-Rockstar'-by-Avesta-Keshtmand

Ben Newbury helms a scintillating and breathless POV journey of a rocket-powered space woman as she flies across the globe, Iron Man-style, for Navos and Galantis's uplifting dance anthem What It Feels Like.Newbury has harnessed the latest in both drone and greenscreen technology to create this action-packed extravaganza, to make it feel like a woman really can fly - speeding through&nbsp;some glorious landscapes, both natural and urban - until she makes a truly spectacular&nbsp;crash-landing.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;"You know you’re on to a basic concept that will probably make a good video when each time you talk it through everyone keeps having more and more ideas for it -&nbsp;that totally happened with this," says Ben Newbury. "I have to give props to the commissioner John Hassay. He was looking for a video that: a young audience would watch to the end;&nbsp;a video that captured euphoria (the feeling not the TV show). Challenge accepted.<blockquote>Having a wild visual idea is one thing but you’re only going to hook the audience if they connect to it.</blockquote>"So the pitch was this… we experience the explosive, psychedelic journey of a spacewoman as she re-enters the atmosphere and hurtles round the surface of the earth - all from a POV inside her helmet. This hyper-colour, over-saturated, warp speed journey takes us from the edge of space, through epic mountains, forests, cities and deserts, flying through impossibly small spaces and trippy VFX wormholes, to match the euphoric feeling of the track. Before she smashes into the ground. Easy peezy."The flight itself was created with FPV drones, filmed around the world, frame matching different takes to create one sequence. Adding in the initial fall from space and trippy wormholes in VFX. Once our VFX wizards had the edit stitched together, and we had all enjoyed another Covid test, we headed to the XR stage in Garden Studios. After some careful testing, Olly Nice our cinematographer extraordinaire rigged the camera inside a space helmet, created by our fabulous art director Katie South, ready for the XR screens to play back the journey.[imgtoken data:2]"The XR screen array enabled us to perfectly match the lighting in the reflections inside the helmet and on her hands and arms, allowing our space woman to appear to look around and throw her arms out in time with the flight (as well as becoming the desert backdrop and lighting for our final shot). Our wonderful actress Poppy Christie positioned herself underneath the camera, while our SFX team (the whole rest of crew) held all manor of wind machines, spritzers, leaf blowers and smoke machines ready for launch. This made the final video pretty much a one-taker, with everyone firing smokers and squirting water at the camera."One goal I kept coming back to throughout pre-production was to make sure the video was about the emotional experience the space woman was having on her journey down to earth. Having a wild visual idea is one thing but you’re only going to hook the audience if they connect to it. If they care. It needed a human element to create that sense of jeopardy. So our solution was to shoot a plate shot of Poppy performing the flight facing the XR screen without the helmet, then composite that as a reflection into the visor in a final round of post, to allow the audience to see her performance.[imgtoken data:3]"Pulling all this off would not have been possible without the brilliant Ramy Dance and Alessia Lendrum from Common People Films. Alessia harnessed the true purpose of the internet, organising FPV drone pilots all around the world, who shot in deserts, mountains, jungles and cities to create the amazing footage that makes up the flight."Big shout out to Tom Bailey and Greg Ayala at FNDM who designed the artwork that kicked off the thought process. I also want to thank our head leaf blower op and PA - Ynez Myers, AC - Mark James, HMU - Eliza Clarke, the Drone Pilots - Luca Morandini, Fabrizio Botto, Smirnov Dmitrii Olegovich, Zakir Mohammad &amp; Jerry Chan. Then on Edit - Matthew Blacklock, Grade - Kathryn Dymmock, Sound Design - James Hall and our VFX brains - James Taylor, Darri Thorsteinsson and Shivam Solanki. As well as Andy Roberts, Amy Collins and Mariama Camara. And finally Navos and Galantis for making such a massive banger."

Ben Newbury

Alessia Lendrum

Las Bandas Be Brave

Common People Films

John Hassay

Olly Nice

Ramy Dance

Mark James

Katie South

Eliza Clarke

Matthew Blacklock

Katie Dymmock

Coffee & TV

Darri Thorsteinsson

Shivam Solanki

James Taylor

Poppy Christie

Island Records

Dance

Navos X Galantis ft YOU 'What It Feels Like' by Ben Newbury

Navos-X-Galantis-'What-It-Feels-Like-Ft-You'-by-Ben-Newbury

New director Flora Scott teams up with fellow Londoner and up-and-coming artist 00ab, in the&nbsp;video for 'Wanna Know'.&nbsp;The promo&nbsp;juxtaposes the mundanity of a day time train ride with the vibrance and excitement&nbsp;of a nighttime rooftop performance, with the help of&nbsp;punchy, collage-like transitions, a&nbsp;true reflection of&nbsp;the director's artistic background.We follow the day in the life of 00ab over a&nbsp;12 hour&nbsp;period. He travels through the city before taking&nbsp;centre stage as nighttime falls, on a roof flooded by alluring red and green lights. To backdrop the night, trains&nbsp;go by in the distance, highlighting the extent of the artist's journey.

Flora Scott

Omar Radwan

Li Chieh Chang

Tyrone Smith

00ab X Gil Sm  'Wanna Know' by Flora Scott

00ab-X-Gil-Sm--''wanna-Know''-by-Flora-Scott

New director Flora Scott teams up with rapper Malik Polo in her debut video for&nbsp;Change, capturing the dynamics of three friends as they make their way home through the city&nbsp;at night.The video is a nod to a famous scene in La Haine, in which the characters of Hubert, Säid and Vincent find themselves unable to get home after missing the last train, leaving them wandering around a deserted city.The music video captures the sense of freedom experienced at a time when the city is finally quiet, giving the three friends a fleeting sence of ownship over their surroundings.

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