Two Door Cinema Club 'Are We Ready? (Wreck)' by THUNDERLIPS
David Knight - 7th July 2016
After their excellent videos for the likes of LarzRanda and Sheep, Dog & Wolf in New Zealand, Auckland-based directing duo Jordan Dodson and Sean Wallace - aka THUNDERLIPS – make an impressive first British video for the returning Two Door Cinema Club. It is a thing of grotesque, slightly bewildering beauty.
In the the video for Are We Ready? (Wreck) video, the three members of TDCC are all noxiously cheesy spokesmen for a series of terrible ads for brands with names corresponding to the song's lyrics. Two of them have been luridly transformed, by Melissa Lackersteen's makeup job, into puffy-faced, surgery-enhanced versions of themselves. But there's a battle going on between this artificiality and reality underneath, expressed through lead singer Alex Trimble's angst and slowly disintegrating face.
It's visually arresting and audacious, and after a couple of views (maybe trying to figure it out what's going on), another catchy TDCC song will be stuck in your brain. Â
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Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- THUNDERLIPS
- Producer
- Rupert Savage
- Production Company
- Good Egg
- Executive Producer
- John Hassay
- Production Manager
- Joshua Carter
- 1st AD
- Tibo Travers
Camera
- Director of Photography
- James Blann
- Focus Puller
- Chris Pollitt
- 2nd AC
- Jomar O'Meally
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Nick Leishman
Wardrobe
- Hair
- Brooke Nielson
- Make-up
- Melissa Lackersteen
- Wardrobe
- Adele Can
Grading
- Colourist
- Richard Fearon
- Grading company
- MPC
- Grade Producer
- Hannah Ruddleston
VFX
- VFX
- Lee Watson
Commission
- Commissioner
- Sam Seager
Misc
- Camera Trainee
- Cat Velez
- Art Department
- Felix Coles
Other credits
Runner
Joe Salkey
Runner
Wayne Bentley
David Knight - 7th July 2016