Band Of Skulls 'You're Not Pretty' by Joseph Connor
David Knight - 18th Sept 2012
After his fine video for Bruises, Joe Connor gets back together with Band Of Skulls for You're Not Pretty But You Got It Goin' On, for a slab of good old fashioned jailhouse rock. And when the prisoners start kicking up a storm in cell block no.9, the warden can't help trying to upstage their routine...
After his fine video for Bruises, Joe Connor gets back together with Band Of Skulls for You're Not Pretty But You Got It Goin' On, for a slab of good old fashioned jailhouse rock. And when the prisoners start kicking up a storm in cell block no.9, the warden can't help trying to upstage their routine... "We really wanted to continue with the 'Americana' aesthetic that served us so well in the Bruises video, creating a surreal and highly cinematic narrative that has, at it's root a dose of absurdity," Joe explains. "As soon as the guys played me the track I couldn't get Fred Astaire tap dancing out of my head. It was just one of those images that leaped out of the track (no pun intended)...
"We really wanted to continue with the 'Americana' aesthetic that served us so well in the Bruises video, creating a surreal and highly cinematic narrative that has, at it's root a dose of absurdity," Joe explains. "As soon as the guys played me the track I couldn't get Fred Astaire tap dancing out of my head. It was just one of those images that leaped out of the track (no pun intended)...
After his fine video for Bruises, Joe Connor gets back together with Band Of Skulls for You're Not Pretty But You Got It Goin' On, for a slab of good old fashioned jailhouse rock. And when the prisoners start kicking up a storm in cell block no.9, the warden can't help trying to upstage their routine... "We really wanted to continue with the 'Americana' aesthetic that served us so well in the Bruises video, creating a surreal and highly cinematic narrative that has, at it's root a dose of absurdity," Joe explains. "As soon as the guys played me the track I couldn't get Fred Astaire tap dancing out of my head. It was just one of those images that leaped out of the track (no pun intended)...
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After his fine video for Bruises, Joe Connor gets back together with Band Of Skulls for You're Not Pretty But You Got It Goin' On, for a slab of good old fashioned jailhouse rock. And when the prisoners start kicking up a storm in cell block no.9, the warden can't help trying to upstage their routine... "We really wanted to continue with the 'Americana' aesthetic that served us so well in the Bruises video, creating a surreal and highly cinematic narrative that has, at it's root a dose of absurdity," Joe explains. "As soon as the guys played me the track I couldn't get Fred Astaire tap dancing out of my head. It was just one of those images that leaped out of the track (no pun intended)...
David Knight - 18th Sept 2012
Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- JC
- Producer
- Nick Crossley
- Production Company
- Chief Productions
- Executive Producer
- Colin Offland
- 1st AD
- Marc McPadden
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Dan Stafford Clark
- Focus Puller
- David Ahah Rafei
- Camera operator
- Daniel Agah Rafei
Art
- Art Director
- Joe Lucas
Wardrobe
- Make-up
- Charlotte Hounslow
Grading
- Colourist
- Ian McLaughlin
Commission
- Commissioner
- John Moule
Misc
- DIT
- Sophie Baggaley
- Offline
- JC
- Offline
- Ian McLaughlin
David Knight - 18th Sept 2012