Franz Ferdinand 'Billy Goodbye' by Diane Martel, Alex Kapranos & Ben Cole
Rob Ulitski - 18th Nov 2021
Iconic pop video director Diane Martel joins forces with Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos and Ben Cole to create the video for Billy Goodbye - taken from the Scottish rock band's forthcoming Greatest Hits album.Â
The black and white concept feels experimental and evocative of early music videos, focusing on a group of characters who descend into a riotous party, full of bottle smashing, karaoke singalongs and melodramatic facial expressions.Â
Glitchy performance setups, mixed formats and spliced cutaways add a textural element to the concept, aesthetically feeling very much like home-movie segments.
The randomness of the content and iconography in several of these scenes also elevates the absurdist nature of the piece.Â
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Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Diane Martel
- Director
- Ben Cole
- Director
- Alex Kapranos
- Producer
- Chris Murdoch
- Production Company
- P
- Executive Producer
- Juliette Larthe
- Production Manager
- Poppy Ashton
- 1st AD
- Jonathan Sidwell
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Jack Reynolds
- Focus Puller
- Karl Hui
- 2nd AC
- Nina Mangold
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Alex Cullen
Wardrobe
- Stylist (Cast)
- Reuben Esser
- Hair
- Hiroshi Matsushita
- Make-up
- Anete Salinieka
- Wardrobe
- Mark Anthony
Editorial
- Editor
- Ben Cole
Grading
- Colourist
- Vic Parker
- Colour grade company
- Raised By Wolves
Commission
- Commissioner
- John Moule
Other credits
- 2nd Unit DOP 
- Ben Cole 
- 2nd AD 
- Jacqui Moore 
- Runners 
- Reuben Davis Lindley, Judy Ibel, Ellie Clapperton, Daniel Hughes Hawkins 
- Sparks 
- Lloyd Rubio, Benjamin Legget 
- Assistant Art Directors 
- Livvie Walters, Esther Dillner 
- Makeup Assistants 
- Martha Inoue, Emily Engleman, Anna Zalaszewska 
- Stylist’s Assistants 
- Lauren Rucha, Trinity Tristan 
- Hair Assistants 
- Yuri Kato, Marta Martineau, Jamie Keegan 
Rob Ulitski - 18th Nov 2021