Coldplay’s Life In Technicolour II by Dougal Wilson
David Knight - 2nd Feb 2009
Coldplay called on Dougal Wilson to make them a lighthearted video for Life In Technicolour II featuring themselves in puppet form.
Apparently Dougal hesitated to go down the well-trodden puppet route he's been down himself before - most successfully for Dizzy Rascal - until he hit upon the hitherto unexploited possibilities in Punch & Judy.
So Coldplay bring their Brit-nominated live show to the Heswall Village Fete during a break in the kids' Punch & Judy show - including roadies, stacks of Marshalls, lights, video and fireworks. To widespread dumbfounded shock, and the vicar's evident horror.
Beautifully done, the attention to detail is typically superb - it's all there in the 'board (right) of course - and Dougal worked with many of the puppet crew from Dizzy's Dream vid. And it's kind of reassuring that this global act have held their egos sufficiently in check to have fun at their own expense.
They know it's a joke, right...
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David Knight - 2nd Feb 2009
Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Dougal Wilson
- Producer
- Matthew Fone
- Production Company
- Colonel Blimp
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Brett Turnbull
Art
- Art Director
- Andy Kelly
Editorial
- Editor
- Joe Guest
Grading
- Colourist
- Jean Clement-Soret
Commission
- Commissioner
- Kirstin Cruickshank
Misc
- SFX
- Artem
- Online
- Stirling Archibald
Other credits
Master Puppet maker
Nonny Beakes
Stylists
Michelle May, Natalie Marie Willis, Holly Dench
David Knight - 2nd Feb 2009