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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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
- Motion control
- G6 Moco
- 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
- Lighting Rental Company
- Drop City
- 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
- MA
Misc
- BTS
- Dw3rt
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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.
Promonews - 15th Apr 2024