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Andrea Arnold makes a very rare appearance as a music video director - possibly her debut -&nbsp;for old friends Sleaford Mods team-up with artist and performer Sue Tompkins, in the familiar territory of the Dartford estate where she shot her seminal Oscar-winning short film&nbsp;Wasp.Shot by long-term collaborator Robbie Ryan - the DoP on her acclaimed features Red Road, Fish Tank, Wuthering Heights, American Honey and Bird, the&nbsp;film for No Touch, shot on a mix of 16mm and 35mm, features the duo performing the track alongside locals and dancers in the falling leaves of British November.The video also features Sue Tompkins, visual artist and&nbsp;former lead singer of Glasgow rock band Life Without&nbsp;Buildings, who becomes the latest female vocal foil to Sleaford's frontman Jason Williamson, following the likes of Billy Nomates, Amy Taylor from Amyl &amp; The Sniffers&nbsp;and,&nbsp;most recently,&nbsp;Gwendoline Christie.[imgtoken data:1]“I had such a lovely day making the video with the Sleafords and Sue Tompkins," says Arnold, who featured both the Sleafords' track Jolly&nbsp;Fucker and a cameo by Jason Williamson in&nbsp;her latest film Bird - also shot in Dartford."The shoot reminded me of my days out to Margate with my family. It was bonkers, chaotic and funny and we got chips on the way home. I had such a good time working with them all. Although we all do different things we were all somehow connected. Like our work and lives all intermingled somehow. Lovely.”Jason Williamson has commented that the song "is colourful and full of heavy&nbsp;realism, a kitchen sink drama," and that it&nbsp;“couldn’t have been captured by anyone else. Andrea Arnold fits perfectly with its soft nightmare theme."He adds: "It is a song about isolation, loneliness and crushing self-harm that we all try to navigate, I suppose, under the rigid structures of conformity. Andrea took us back to her old neighbourhood, which also felt very familiar to me. The video, like her films, doesn’t end in total black out, but it trails hope too.”

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Sleaford Mods ft Sue Tompkins 'No Touch' by Andrea Arnold

Sleaford Mods Ft. Sue Tompkins - No Touch (Official Video)

<h3>It's been one of the success stories of the year. The Jake Erland-directed videos for Olivia Dean have helped propel the singer to new heights. Now we can find out how VFX work at post house Anchous assisted the in-camera ingenuity in three videos, and contributed to their impact - courtesy of Before &amp; After comparison reels.&nbsp;</h3>London-based Anchous worked with Jake Erland on three of his videos for Olivia Dean this year - Lady Lady, the smash hit Man I Need and So Easy (To Fall In Love) - and the idea in each one was to make the ambitious 'one-shot'-style structure as&nbsp;seamless and natural as possible.So that Olivia appeared to wander effortlessly through choreographed scenes of backstage activity or rehearsals in a theatrical&nbsp;performance, or a Hollywood musical, the VFX work had to be invisible."Overall, the biggest challenge was maintaining the organic, non-artificial feeling of a true one-shot music video - keeping the illusion that everything was captured fully in-camera," says Arsenii Pronkin, Anchous founder, EP and senior editor. He also reveals that the&nbsp;essential method was to work with two different takes of the same tracking shot to craft the 'perfect' combination of both.&nbsp;"Matching motion between the two takes was tricky, and in the moments where that wasn’t possible, we had to stitch together transitions from five or six different shots while still making the final piece feel completely seamless. But thankfully Jake and Rowan [Mackintosh King, the producer]&nbsp;did their best with the shots and pre-planning the transitions. So it was a very smooth process."<blockquote>Matching motion between two takes was tricky...&nbsp;where that wasn’t possible, we had to stitch together transitions from five or six different shots.</blockquote>In fact, you&nbsp;can find out how good the clean-up work has been in the three videos by viewing the Before &amp; After comparison reels here - accompanied by Arsenii Pronkin's words on the specific challenges posed by each video.Lady Lady[vidtoken data:0]"The toughest part was definitely the floor transition. We didn’t want to rely on a fade-in/fade-out, so we used multiple takes to capture as much of the different floor positions and reflections to make the transition feel natural."Man I Need[vidtoken data:1]"Here it was all about the masked transitions, which were quite complex. They weren’t the typical “hide it behind someone’s back” or “person passes in front of camera” type of tricks - these ones required much more precise planning and execution with the matching position."So Easy (To Fall In Love)[vidtoken data:2]"The challenge was the final shot, where we had to replace almost every lightning flare with a larger one. The actual replacement isn’t hard, but doing it across a continuous 40-second shot - tracking every light stomp and making sure all the flares stay consistent in size."Pronkin points out that a different skill set is required&nbsp;for using VFX to clean up live action shots, rather than creating 'visible' VFX."Some of the tools are the same," he says. "But you just need to be a lot more efficient with&nbsp;being able to make&nbsp;two or three options with the&nbsp;very slight touches of changes in the transition."No doubt that the cleanup is easier than full CG. But tracking a 40–50 second shot and then blending it into another 30-40 second shot is still no joke, ha ha."But Pronkin adds that Anchous have also worked with Jake Erland on another project which did require decidely more visible VFX work: the <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2025/04/03/joy-crookes-i-know-youd-kill-jake-erland/90585" target="_blank">Joy Crookes' video for I Know You'd Kill</a>."We had some&nbsp;very&nbsp;fun blood and gunshot VFX moments - that was super cool to work on."• More about Anchous <a href="https://www.anchous-editing.com/about" target="_blank">here</a>

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VFX Breakdown: Arsenii Pronkin of Anchous on Olivia Dean's videos

Olivia Dean - Lady Lady

Olivia Dean - Man I Need

Olivia Dean - So Easy

Following in the footsteps of the UKMVA-nominated Nice To Each Other, Lady Lady and Man I Need, Jake Erland's new video for Olivia Dean recreates the style of a classic Hollywood musical - but this is the most sophisticated and perfectly realised of the bunch.As in previous videos, Olivia is the focal point in choreographed sequences in So Easy. It suits her perfectly. Only here, she moves into different scenes and there is a sense of a narrative - a picturebook version of everyday life, like in a Stanley Donen movie,&nbsp;in which Olivia has an important role: matchmaking other people's love lives.Erland and his returning team, including production designer Furmaan&nbsp;Ahmed and choreographer Meshach Henry, have been given a bigger canvas for this video - likely&nbsp;due to the success of their previous videos in helping Dean enjoy a chart-topping hit with her second album, and helped by shooting this on a stage in Sofia. They have certainly risen to the challenge to make something lovely.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Olivia Dean 'So Easy' by Jake Erland

Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall In Love)

Olivia Dean joins ballerinas in rehearsal in the second video directed by Jake Erland for the London singer's new album.&nbsp;The video for Lady Lady is a gentle, considered visual, blending choreography and performance in an intimate, introspective way.&nbsp;With the track's themes of celebrating the universe and the collective strength of women, the concept features&nbsp;Royal Ballet principal dancer Francesca Hayward, and has an overarching message of passing down knowledge and celebrating both individuality and community.&nbsp;A beautiful concept that builds upon Erland and Dean's collective videography with a new aesthetic and vibe.&nbsp;

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Olivia Dean 'Lady Lady' by Jake Erland

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Iggy London returns to music videos with an effervescent affair for rising R&amp;B star&nbsp;Sekou.The delightful video for Catching Bodies features the young British singer strutting their stuff&nbsp;through a London estate&nbsp;on a hot summer's day, through the buzz of everyday life - and performing mostly to the camera on a shot tracking along the street.Iggy provides a uplifting sense of the joy in a sizzling summer's day in the city, elevated by the colour palette of Peter Bishop's cinematography and Tim Smith's grade.&nbsp;Above all, it's a vehicle for Sekou's distinctive personality and a song that should keep the summer vibes going for a while longer.[imgtoken data:1]

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Sekou 'Catching Bodies' by Iggy London

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Jake Erland's latest for&nbsp;Olivia Dean continues in the uplifting musical theatre atmosphere&nbsp;of his previous videos for the singer's soon-to-be-released new album, The Art Of Loving - a smooth and smart combination of performance and craft.In fact, the video for Man I Need takes the 'backstage' ambience of Olivia's video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2025/07/08/olivia-dean-nice-each-other-jake-erland/91763" target="_blank">Nice To Each Other</a> and brings it up a notch in sophistication. Olivia once again moves between scenes courtesy of&nbsp;theatrical devices and in-camera sleight of hand, but the transitions and scenery has a more front-of-house feel.And once again, Olivia Dean provides an on-screen warmth and relatability that has been a feature of her videos from the start. A great addition to the successful&nbsp;video campaign for her much-anticipated new album.&nbsp;

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Olivia Dean 'Man I Need' by Jake Erland

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<h3>Director/DoP Jake Erland’s recent video for Olivia Dean elevates the singer's charming on-screen presence by referencing Hollywood musicals and classic fashion shoots. We asked Jake some questions about the project. On-set photography by Honor Evans.</h3>In the video for Nice To Each Other, Olivia Dean walks onto a rehearsal stage&nbsp;where stagehands move the two-dimensional flats that will create the scenery for a show. Her choreographed interaction with the scenery and stagehands enhances the sense of wistful romance in her performance.With production design by Furmaan Ahmed and choreographed by&nbsp;Meshach Henry, and shot in long takes by the director/DoP in the style of a Fifties musical, it is a terrific showcase for Olivia Dean's screen presence. And that's as delightfully mood-enhancing here as it has been in previous Erland-directed videos, including the UKMVA-nominated video for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2024/08/08/olivia-dean-time-jake-erland/89266" target="_blank">Time</a>, and their next one for new single <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN_Vyg_wURY" target="_blank">Lady Lady</a>.[vidtoken data:0]​PROMONEWS: What inspired the idea for the video?&nbsp;JAKE ERLAND: I’ve been working across the whole album with Emily [Braham], Olivia’s manager and creative director. We have an amazing creative partnership and we sketched out the world based on Olivia’s idea of black and white sets.Then I was watching&nbsp;Wicked, and there’s this cutout picture book transition they do in the film. It made me think about 2D sets and perspective and that’s where this came from.[imgtoken data:1][imgtoken data:2]<blockquote>It turns out [that] having sets on wheels and amazing dancers makes reset and takes pretty easy!</blockquote>What were the biggest challenges during production?JE: This wasn’t too hard - turns out having sets on wheels and amazing dancers makes reset and takes pretty easy!&nbsp;Plus total trust in Olivia's performance and Furmann Ahmed (art) and Mesh Henry (choreo) to be so fab at what they do and make these ideas work - without them I’d be lost.To be honest I think maybe this was my favourite shoot in a while. I think a big part of that is trust the team and when you don’t know what’s gunna be possible, don’t plan too specifically what it’s gunna be. Sometimes things can just come together and it can be nice![imgtoken data:3][imgtoken data:4]What are you most pleased with about how it's turned out?JE: I think all of it. Usually it’s the work of mine that people like that I hate and obsess about. I can see the issues. But this one was perfect for me and I’m happy people loved it. Big shout out to Park [Pictures], Rowan Mackintosh King and Olli Hill on production and AD department.[imgtoken data:5][imgtoken data:6][imgtoken data:7]• Jake Erland is a director and cinematographer based at <a href="https://parkpictures.com/director/jake-erland" target="_blank">Park Pictures</a>

BTS: Jake Erland on Olivia Dean’s Nice To Each Other

Olivia-Dean-'Nice-To-Each-Other-'-by-Jake-Erland

Jake Erland reunites with Olivia Dean for the first track from her new album The Art of Loving, with a video that channels Hollywood musicals and classic fashion shoots and plays to the singer's great strength.In the video for Nice To Each Other, Olivia walks onto a rehearsal stage&nbsp;where stagehands move the two-dimensional flats that will create the scenery for a show. Her choreographed interaction with the scenery and stagehands enhances the sense of wistful romance in her performance.[imgtoken data:1]With production design by Furmaan Ahmed and choreographed by&nbsp;Meshach Henry, and shot in long takes by the director/DoP in the style of a Fifties musical, it is a terrific showcase for Olivia Dean's screen presence. And that's as delightfully mood-enhancing here as it has been in previous videos - including the UKMVA-nominated video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2024/08/08/olivia-dean-time-jake-erland/89266" target="_blank">Time, also directed by Erland</a>.[imgtoken data:2] &nbsp;

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Olivia Dean 'Nice To Each Other' by Jake Erland

Music video and film worlds collide in Jake Erland's latest collaboration with Joy Crookes.&nbsp;The video for I Know You'd Kill is a thrilling, no-holds-barred spectacle, boasting backlit fight scenes, gravity-defying flips - and Joy as we've never seen her before.&nbsp;Battling an unidentified assailant, she holds her own whilst tearing up her apartment-turned-battle zone, captured in a combination of brilliant overhead shots and frantic closeups.And, as well as plenty of action-packed set-pieces, it's another video by Erland showcasing Joy Crookes' winning personality.&nbsp;

Joy Crookes 'I Know You'd Kill' by Jake Erland

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Fatherhood is examined in a tender montage of vignettes, in&nbsp;Saddiq Abubakar's promo for Tom Misch.&nbsp;The video for Old Man features a selection of real life fathers and sons, ending with a breathtaking scene between&nbsp;the artist and his dad.&nbsp;Cinematic and absorbing, the visual lingers on simple everyday moments and connection, bringing to life snapshots of stories in a universally relatable way.&nbsp;Lovely work.&nbsp;

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Tom Misch 'Old Man' by Saddiq Abubakar

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Jak Payne directs an evocative promo for Demise Of Love - a collaboration between producers/alt rock pioneers&nbsp;Daniel Avery, James Greenwood's Ghost Culture and Working Men's Club.The video for Strange Little Consequence sees WMC's&nbsp;Syd Minsky Sargeant&nbsp;perform whilst flanked by Avery and Greenwood within an abstract studio set - designed by art director Fin Sullivan&nbsp;- that's falling apart, littered with falling debris as it disintegrates around the three figures.&nbsp;Tied together by a breathless, quick-cut edit, it's a rousing promo with plenty of fun visual moments - and a great introduction to the new project.&nbsp;

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Joy Crookes and Kano deliver the joy and heartache of a life together in a series of moments, within the same four walls, in Jake Erland's compelling video for Mathematics.The artists portray a couple going through the life-changing phases of a relationship – young love, marriage, birth and death - all happening within their home. And&nbsp;we switch between periods, back and forth, as the action takes place within an almost theatrical framework - the same rooms of their council flat, shot on a locked-off camera. So the table used for a birthday party will later host a wake for a&nbsp;lost loved oneThis device is a winner, allowing for Erland to create almost painterly compositions as cinematographer as well as director of the piece. And it provides the contained space for the transfixing acting performances of the two artists.[imgtoken data:1]In this respect, Kano's talents are well known, due to his role in Top Boy. But he is matched by Joy Crookes,&nbsp;who portrays a young woman's ups and downs in a way that suggests she also has great potential as an actor. She has great chemistry with Kano, and the meaningful yet unheard exchanges between them provides good reason to return to this again and again.The&nbsp;visuals overall underscore a track that also feels transcendent,&nbsp;with Crookes expressing the pain of trying to be on the same page with someone you love. After <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2025/01/21/joy-crookes-ft-vince-staples-pass-salt-jake-erland/89735" target="_blank">Pass The Salt</a>, released last month, Mathematics is the second of a tryptich of videos by Erland for the new album. And after this, it's going to be fascinating to see what they come up with next time.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Joy Crookes ft Kano 'Mathematics' by Jake Erland

Joy Crookes - Mathematics (Official Video) ft. Kano

It's been a while, but OK Go are back for their first music video-cum-visual art project in several years - seemingly prompted by Donald Trump's return to power.The band's frontman Damian Kulash co-directs the visual for A Stone Only Rolls Downhill with Chris Buongiorno, which begins with a title (in a familiar font) simply stating: 64 Videos on 64 Phones. It then presents the four members of OK Go through a varying, increasingly complex arrangement of phone screens, moving from phone to phone , or have a number of screens composite part or all of the image, and employing an escalating number of phones for ever-greater and ingenious compositions, also involving hand-based choreography.In other words, it's very clever. Not as spectacular as some previous outings, but just as magical and distinctively OK Go-like as ever. There's a peek behind the scenes, on how this very complex job was created and project managed&nbsp;in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY7hI-mPqr8" target="_blank">BTS video</a>.&nbsp;However, unlike their previous videos the visual is also a poignant counterpoint to a lyric that's akin to a person gently breaking some very bad news: 'I wish I could tell you it'll all be just fine.' It's pretty clear what that refers to."We invested all this time and effort into this so that you could have three minutes of wow in your day and a real sense of joy about other humans in the world,"&nbsp;Kulash expains in the BTS. "That's a very precious commodity now."&nbsp;OK Go have responded to the world going to shit in a very OK Go way.[imgtoken data:1]

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OK Go 'A Stone Only Rolls Downhill' by Damian Kulash & Chris Buongiorno

OK Go - A Stone Only Rolls Downhill (Official Video)

Jake Erland directs a vibrant performance promo for Joy Crookes.&nbsp;Opening in a deep red room, the video features a captivating showcase of Crookes' performance skills, encapsulated in mini vignettes adorned with minimalist art direction.&nbsp;Overlaid with lyrics for Vince Staples' featured section, the video employs a balanced use of colour, camera movement and beauty lighting&nbsp;to create a laidback yet completely absorbing aesthetic.&nbsp;Brilliant work across the board, and a rousing comeback for the London-based artist.&nbsp;

Joy Crookes ft Vince Staples 'Pass The Salt' by Jake Erland

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Jake Erland directs (and shoots) the video for Olivia Dean's Time - very close to a runway at Heathrow Airport...

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Olivia Dean 'Time' by Jake Erland

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Iggy London directs a vibrant performance promo for Mabel.The video for Vitamins centres on a carefree band performance, introduced with a series of intimate, enigmatic portraits of characters who appear later in the video.&nbsp;The effervescent aesthetic is achieved through inspired art direction, with abstract patterns and block colours taking centre-stage, complemented by creative cinematography from start to end.&nbsp;A brilliant project - and the&nbsp;Drector's Cut expands on Mabel and her band's&nbsp;central performance in an interesting way.&nbsp;

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Mabel 'Vitamins' (Director's Cut) by Iggy London

Moonchild Sanelly and her gang of accomplices run wild and cause egg-related havoc all over town in Jabu Nadia Newman's terrific video for the South African artist and dancer's highly infectious Scrambled Eggs.From the start, the&nbsp;Capetown-based director transfixes the viewer with her bold and supercool take on contemporary South Africa, as the gang's invasion of a downtown cornershop has the edginess of a heist movie before turning into something more comedic and performance-based.With great camerawork, glam and choreo, Newman keeps the breathless narrative moving towards a daring climax, showcasing Moonchild Sanelly's great performance, and chemistry with her similarly blue-haired pals&nbsp;in the process.&nbsp;We suspect&nbsp;few eggs may have been harmed in the making of this video. Nevertheless, it's really&nbsp;eggs-cellent...<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rz6Cfwl5CFs?si=5azH-d400BN-Yjd4" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>

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Moonchild Sanelly 'Scrambled Eggs' by Jabu Nadia Newman

Moonchild Sanelly - Scrambled Eggs (Official Video)

Jake Erland directs a captivating video&nbsp;for beabadoobee, highlighting Bea's star quality with a Hollywood-style&nbsp;street scene, and a touch of Groundhog Day.Bea performs Take A Bite, the first single from forthcoming new album&nbsp;This Is How Tomorrow Moves, amongst the hustle and bustle of life on a busy European city street, with the stylised look of a studio-set Hollywood musical.Exuding a mixture of drama and glamour - with Erland working as DoP as well as director -&nbsp;her performance gains an additional sense of mystery as the street scene moves from day to night and then blacks out entirely. Then Bea returns to the&nbsp;street corner where she started, to repeat the move&nbsp;twice more, with the scene slightly more chaotic each time.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is both a visually arresting and nostalgic concept and&nbsp;echoes other videos Erland has shot for her - like the London-set song-and-dance based <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2023/11/03/beabadoobee-laufey-night-remember-jake-erland/83982" target="_blank">A Night To Remember</a>. But while retaining&nbsp;the texture of her edgier, grungy roots, its a definite statement about the next chapter for&nbsp;beabadoobee.[imgtoken data:1]