Frank Ocean 'Nikes' by Tyrone Lebon
Cat Velez - 9th Sept 2016
Tyrone Lebon has created this patchwork of visuals for Frank Ocean's new track Nikes, which sees an enterpretation of the song with snippets of footage in various degrees of filmic quality.
Including grainy handicam clips of casting calls, strippers and parties full of glitter, as well as more composed, considered imagery, the video stages conventional video tropes and then breaks the illusion by revealing their artifice through BTS clips.
Heavy on the neon-tinged nighttime atmospherics, it's a video to accompany an occasionally sparse, evocative track, culminating in a self-immolation sequence where Frank is set on fire...
"I interpreted the song as a stream of Frank’s consciousness - rich with snippets of stories, emotions and ideas," Lebon explains, "The visuals came immediately when I first heard the song - they all follow from the music and Frank’s lyrics."
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Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Tyrone Lebon
- Producer
- Tom Birmingham
- Production Company
- S
- Production Manager
- Lana Salfiti
- 1st AD
- George Nelson
Camera
- Director of Photography
- André Chemtoff
- 1st AC
- Tim Allan
- 2nd AC
- Jenny John Chuan
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Danny Hayward
- Grip
- Tom North
- Grip
- Jamie Monks
Art
- Art Director
- Ed Quarmby
- Production designer
- David White
Wardrobe
- Stylist
- Max Pearmain
- Hair
- Cyndia Harvey
- Make-up
- Isamaya French
Casting
- Casting
- Charlotte Roberts
- Casting
- Melissa Thompson
Editorial
- Editor
- Adam Biskupski
Grading
- Colourist
- Aubrey Woodiwiss
- Colour grade company
- EC
VFX
- VFX
- EC
Misc
- Post Production Executive
- Hannah Turnbull-Walter
- 2nd AD
- John Robinson
- Director's Assistant
- Holly Gore
- 2nd Unit
- Deepa Keshvala
- 2nd Unit
- Frank Lebon
- 2nd Unit
- Hanna Moon
- 2nd Unit
- Merlin Massara
Other credits
Exec Producer
Tash Tan, Tim Nash, Sally Campbell
Cat Velez - 9th Sept 2016