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Meekz 'Mini Me's' by KC Locke

Promonews - 15th Apr 2024

KC Locke reunites with Manchester rapper Meekz for their biggest visual statement yet - a takedown of the copycats who have followed in his wake, riffing on the visual legacy that artist and director have built up in their previous collaborations.

The video for Mini Me's returns to the scenario of the breakthrough Like Me video, featuring several incarnations of the masked rapper in a studio setting. Then Meekz heads out of the studio, and into a fully-realised CGI-created world. This is the destroyed, abandoned city that dominates the second half of the video, with Meezk travelling through this dystopian scenario on a speeding freight train.

Make no mistake, it's an epic that is designed to dazzle. The first part features dizzying motion control work by G6Mocco, with Meekz scornfully taunting the plagiarists around him while floating and spinning through the air in a chair fixed to a massive robotic camera control rig, riding the machine like he’s at an amusement park. The second half of the video presents Meekz in a wild doomsday world with blazing effects created by VFX studio LMNTL. 

“Meekz wrote this song as a reaction to how others were stealing his brand and our style of filmmaking,” says Locke who has used motion control extensively in this video. The same is true in several of his other collaborations with the artist - but it's the first time Locke has had Meekz swung around by the Moco system's robot arm.

“We created something here that references our past work together and then moves beyond the pretenders who have copied and cloned him, and into the post-apocalyptic future where Meekz is the only artist left standing. It’s a powerful statement, expressed in artform.”   

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Promonews - 15th Apr 2024

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  • Director's notes
  • Motion control
  • Pick of the Day
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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
KC Locke
Producer
Fin Mulligan-Wild
Production Company
Swords & Eagles
Executive Producer
KC Locke
Executive Producer
Jenny O’Sullivan
1st AD
Benjamin Plummer
2nd AD
Lydia Shenton
Floor Runners
Isaac Moreton, Jessica Sweetman
Production Runners
Ken Locke, Ellie Fox, Joel Dykes, Tom Costello
Health & Safety Supervisor
Martin Shenton

Camera

Director of Photography
James Killeen
1st AC
Danny Usman
Steadicam
Leighton Cox
2nd ACs
Martin Welsby, Ken Carson, Simon Derwent
Camera Trainees
Araceli Lopez, Jacob Davenport, Gabriel Trinc
DIT
Jamil Shaukat
Moco Operators
Rammy Anwar, Cain Jennings
Moco Programmer
Andy Rider
Camera
Panavision Manchester

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Lee Symington
Grip
Jon Head
Gaffer (pickup)
Chris Sarginson
Sparks
Charlotte Stevens, Grant Weir, Chris Bird, Alex Watson, Callan Dooley

Art

Production designer
Jenny O’Sullivan
Art Assistant
Ed Kelly

Wardrobe

Stylist
Caitlin Matthews
Styling Assistant
Amber Barlow

Casting

Actors
Cuba Blue, Cody Clarke

Editorial

Editor
Jamil Shaukat
Editing company
PictureLock
Titles
Bimmy

Grading

Colourist
Alex Gregory
Colour Producer
Charlie Morris
Colour grade company
No.8

VFX

VFX Supervisor
Jamil Shaukat
VFX Company
LMNTL
Post Producer
KC Locke

Agent

Director's Representation

Misc

Motion control
G6 Moco
BTS
Dw3rt
Lighting Rental Company
Drop City

Other credits

Special thanks

Panavision Manchester, Mike Greaves, Drop City, Nick Platt & Chris Sarginson, CopyThat TV, Location One, Hannah Starling, David Hitchen, Charlotte Topping and all of the brilliant crew who helped bring this project to life.

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