Young Guns 'Speaking In Tongues' by Favourite Colour: Black
David Knight - 4th Mar 2015
Chris Turner - aka Favourite Colour: Black - draws the viewer into his story of corruption for Young Guns's Speaking In Tongues, in much in the way that Young Guns' lead singer Gus is lured into the maelstrom: by an exciting encounter with a girl in suspenders, stockings and a very short fur coat.
But its never as good again for Gus as that first time - in fact, it gets a whole lot worse – in a stylish visual demonstration of the law of diminishing returns.
FAVOURITE COLOUR: BLACK (CHRIS TURNER):
"The brief was to make a film which was initially benevolent but takes a turn for the sinister. Something character-driven which included the band but wasn't conventionally performance based.
"I'd recently seen something about a 'photography club' where amateurs go to shoot glamour models posing for them. It sounded creepy, but a great metaphor for corrupted beauty if we gave it a visual twist to reflect the lyrical content of the song. The end result was a cyclical narrative which followed a guy who - after seeing an ad in a newspaper which read 'Do you want to dance with the Devil' (a line from the end of the song) - goes to a derelict location to photograph a model who embodies a typical kind of male fantasy version of sexuality.
"As the narrative repeats, the man (played by Gus - the lead singer) revisits this place multiple times, but the more he goes the more he sees the ugliness of the situation. In the end, Gus is confronted by a twisted, distorted version of an ideal he once desired. During the edit, we removed the exterior 'real world' scenes to give the final film a more abstract feel and stylised aesthetic."
David Knight - 4th Mar 2015
Credits
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Production/Creative
- Director
- Favourite Colour: Black
- Producer
- Thalia Murray
- Production Company
- Stable London
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Luke Scully
- Focus Puller
- Rees Lipscomb
- 2nd AC
- Rich Savage
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Maarten Alexander
Art
- Art Director
- Chris Turner
Wardrobe
- Hair
- Krystle Gohel
- Make-up
- Krystle Gohel
- Wardrobe
- Gemma Carmichael
Choreography
- Choreographer
- Lucie Pankhurst
Casting
- Lead actor
- Hayley Ku'unani
Editorial
- Editor
- Mark Whelan
- Editing company
- TQ
Grading
- Colourist
- Adam Clarke
- Colour grade company
- Absolute Post
VFX
- Post production company
- Absolute Post
- Post Producer
- Belinda Grew
Agent
- Director's Representation
- Alexa Haywood
Commission
- Commissioner
- James Hackett
- Label
- Virgin EMI
Other credits
David Knight - 4th Mar 2015