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Dead! 'Up For Ran$om' by Lewis Cater

David Knight - 10th Aug 2017

Lewis Cater recreates the thrills of appearing on old-time pop TV for Dead!'s furiously rocking Up For Ran$om.

The band are (mostly) dressed in matching blue suits, and their performance is captured on vintage cameras to recreate that sense of what a TV pop show looked like before everybody could watch everything, right now. The band's relentless aggression means this nostalgic approach has a modern bite. 

LEWIS CATER:

"Some of my earliest musical memories as a kid were sitting down every Friday night to watch Top of the Pops. It's also probably one of early reasons why I chose to work in music videos. It is super unfortunate that the show no longer exists so we thought it would be fun to re-incarnate it for the 'Up For Ran$om' video.

"We shot the video on an old 3 tube Ikegami camera that was frequently used on the show. I also called upon operator Dicky Howett – a TOTP veteran himself – to help achieve that authentic and nostalgic look."

David Knight - 10th Aug 2017

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Producer
Alasdair Mitchell
Production Company
Zebrafish Media
Executive Producer
James Norbury
1st AD
Kerry Green

Camera

Director of Photography
Nicholas Lee-Shield

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Camil Liberto

Art

Art Director
Luis San Martin

Wardrobe

Make-up
Zoey Olechnowicz

Editorial

Editor

Grading

Colourist
Alex Gregory
Colour grade company
The Mill

Commission

Label
Infectious Music / Bmg

Other credits

Camera Operator

Dicky Howett

DIT

Jim Horsfield

Lighting Designer

James Shaw

Spark

Will Horwel

Spark

Stuart Mansell

Production Designer

Felix Coles

Props Master

Ross Davidson

Runner

James May

Runner

Femi Anderson

Runner

Jonny Pickup

David Knight - 10th Aug 2017

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