King Lizard - Just To Hear You Say It

In December 2013 we teamed up again with our rocking friends King Lizard to film a new piece of factual content in the form of a day by day tour film, and a new promo video for "This Ain't Love" during their visit to perform in guitarist, Niro Knox's home town of Tel Aviv, Israel. 

Now, for a country in the middle east you wouldn't expect anything but sunshine and scorching heat, but unfortunately we were greeted with a horror storm that stuck with us for the 5 days filming in Israel, and to make matters even worse our plans were to shoot the promo primarily in the Desert - No Chance.

With the Storms getting the better of us, we decided to work on "Just To Hear You Say it" a good old-fashioned rock ballad from their current album "A Nightmare Livin' The Dream" and had to come up with new plans regarding getting a promo shoot in the bag whilst out in Tel Aviv.

So with some quick improvisation and with a change of single choice we put our heads together on the 3rd night out there and managed to squeeze out a powerful and quick performance video in the rehearsal spaces in downtown Tel Aviv, when preparing for one of the big shows later that week.

It was certainly a mighty test but also a pleasure to cut this together, especially getting to make another promo in a foreign country. We hope you enjoy this one.

Note: The touring film should surface over the next month or so.

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SLK - 'Be'

On a sunny (but cold) Saturday morning we travelled over to Barbican to shoot SLK's first music video for her debut track 'Be'. We chose Barbican for the location because we instantly fell in love with the late 1960s architecture, which looked so beautiful on film, with the buildings bringing a nice ‘pop’ of colour to the shoot.

Our approach to this video was very simple, this introduction to SLK did not need a video layered with over complex visuals, or a twisting story. We utilised the great colour range within buildings based in and around Barbican as a fitting performance space for a intimate performance by SLK. The beautifully shy onscreen chemistry from our two models, Amber and Josh (who are a genuine couple) fitted perfectly on screen with tales of new relationships pouring from within the track "Be". The video was released on Monday 14th April with an exclusive premiere on Noisey and featured on Promo News.

Some behind the scenes stills from the shoot.

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Bleech - I Just Want You

On Monday 10th March, Bleech released their new album, Humble Sky, and we were asked to create the music video for their first single from the album, 'I Just Want You'. 

The video was filmed in just one day, at th1ng's studio in Soho. The production process was a break from the norm, with Matthew Hoare directing by himself, as Matthew Connell was taking a well deserved holiday! 

I Just Want You is a fun, tongue in cheek video, which explores sexuality and also features an array of everyday objects arranged to suggestively resemble parts of the body. Making this video was a lot of fun, and we look forward to working with Bleech in the near future. The video received an exclusive premiere on VEVO. 

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Young Romance - Pale

Back at the beginning of the year we made a new music video for the Kingston duo, Young Romance for their single 'Pale', which will be released as a limited 7" pressing in March.


As far as the styling for the video the duo went for a throwback of looks, and tried to compliment the song with an old VHS feel. We wanted to test our styles as see what we could do differently with this as a performance video. Matthew Connell gathered royalty free stock footage and edited together a sequence that was projected onto the band during the performance. Then to add to the vintage and almost glitchy look, Matthew Hoare played the finished sequence through a an old Sony Trinitron CRT Monitor from the 80's and filmed the monitors screen, to seal the look and resulting in the finished product.

Since making the music video the track has been gathering pace with premieres on sites such as The Line Of Best Fit, and even being spun on Steve Lemacq's BBC 6 Music show.

Yesterday, after a few weeks of scheduling and PR work around the duo, the video was premiered on the Beat.

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Hoaxx - 'Let Us Down'

Today is the official release for the new music video we produced for Hoaxx, it was a pleasure working with these guys, and it was good fun to make. We believe it's our most promising work so far. 


HOAXX
Let Us Down ft. John Bird
Kiez Beats
Taken from the album 'Who is the Queen?'

Director - Matthew Connell

Producer / DOP / Editor - Matthew Hoare

VFX - Owen D P

Colour Grade - Danny Atkinson

WE ARE FENIXX

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