The Go! Team: Keys To The City

Made for a competition run by Promax UK, we had the opportunity to try out an idea we’d wanted to do for the Go! Team for ages - hundreds of photographs of people singing the song, each one only on screen for a single frame at a time, animated together so the lips were in sync. We’ve used a unique passport-style frame size befitting the stills idea, which works fantastically on the web, especially on sites such as Facebook...

Steel Pulse: Global Warning

A small budget didn’t stop us from heading off into a live-action / animated epic which took over our lives for several months. Taking the message of the song, we wanted to push it further into an aggressive call-to-arms from the plant world to take back the planet from the polluters, and the exacting creative principles of lead singer David Hinds pushed the it to another level - despite the fact this was our first full-on animated video. For Banana Mgmt.

The Immediate: Stop And Remember

Take one varicam, one 20ft bed, two 30ft bedsheets, four kingsize duvets, four members of The Immediate and one tin black emulsion. Mix. This is one of the few videos we’ve felt we’ve had the perfect idea for and actually got to make. The guys were fantastic and the day’s shooting was as smooth and fun as could be and we think you can see it in the result. For Fantastic Plastic.

Art Brut: Formed A Band

Rough Trade heard Art Brut’s demo and loved it so much they released it as a single - and there wasn’t going to be a video attached so we jumped at the chance, putting together this animated video over a single weekend - it caught on, going into the NME’s top ten and coming second in MTV2’s ‘Best Cartoon Video’ category of their  ‘Top Fives Weekend’.  

Special Needs: Blue Skies

Our first modestly budgeted music video meant we went a bit mad in trying to match the cornucopia of musical ideas with visuals - hence the hospitals, the drums on the gurney, the singing detective choreographed dancers, the floating umbrellas, the battery-powered dodgems, the real spitfires, the model spitfires and the producer-dug treeside grave at sunset. We have always loved the band and wanted to make a video that looked as if it were made for ten times the budget - and we thing we succeeded. For Mercury.