Hunting for Remoteness

After a mammoth editing job that has taken well over 2 months of staring at a computer screen for an average of 12 hours a day, our documentary film is ready to be released to the public.

We were lucky enough to be asked by The Magnetic North to join them on their trip back to the Orkney Islands, the place that their latest album is written about, whilst also being the place they recorded the Hoy pub choir for said album.  The aim was pretty broad, film the islands, film the band, film the locals and film the gig that was to be happening at St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall at the end of the week.
What ensued was the most inspiring yet tiring week we have ever encountered.

With suns still setting at 11:30pm before only disappearing for a few hours, the days were long to say the least.  But we didn't expect to be hit with the wave of inspiration that we were treated to.  The landscapes were mind blowing, almost overwhelming at times, we asked ourselves how we were supposed to do these images justice on camera? 

We saw some incredible sights, witnessed the most amazing sunsets of our lives, met some dazzlingly eccentric and interesting people and were treated to the most picturesque and fitting gig we have had the pleasure to attend, let alone film.
To say the footage was vast would be a sickening understatement.  Hours upon hours of hills, pebbles, sunsets, sunrises, cliffs, seas, beaches, grass, not to mention the birds, the seals and the local Orcadians we met.  They all had a story to tell and have all led some incredible interesting lives and we came back with hoards of stories.

Unfortunately we had to limit ourselves, and although the first cut was 50 minutes we knew we had to wind it down to the 30 minute mark, which was painful, although a sequel might be in the works...

So here are a bunch of stills, a trailer for the film and below that information on when and where you can see it.

Thanks to everyone involved, the people of Orkney for being so kind and creating this World and letting us be a part of it, but also thanks to Erland, Hannah and Simon for asking us along for the ride, we had an absolute blast!

Hunting for Remoteness Trailer

If you're interested in seeing the film here are the details of how to do it.  The public premiere is at the Purcell Rooms on Thursday the 22nd of November, the band will be performing a gig afterwards.  Here are all the details you need: http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/music/gigs-contemporary/tickets/the-magnetic-north-69725

Hope to see you down there!

Glass Animals - Cocoa Hooves

After a weeks long filming, getting our hands dirty with slugs, moss, worms and anything else the treatment threw at us we were finally ready for some editing.  After a shower.
Anyways we pieced together something that has been described by Pitchfork as 'evocative'  and has been getting some great praise online as an accompaniment to the beautiful and flowing music of Glass Animals.
That is the aim for all music video directors, to go hand in hand with the song, to compliment it as much as it compliments the video, and when those elements come together so well it's a thing to behold and just enjoy.

So here is our video (in collaboration once again with The Mitcham Submarine) for the magnificent Glass Animals, hopefully the first of many..enjoy!

Dylan Leblanc - Music Video

We have just finished a music video for Part One : The End by Dylan Leblanc, it was a big project with an entire model town being built for the shoot.

A massive thank you goes out to all our set builders, it looked amazing and the video is a huge success.

We will post a link to the video with a bit of a write up as soon as it's released!
 For now here are some stills.
Directed by Black Revolver Films/The Mitcham Submarine

Chevrolet Advert

We recently had the pleasure of writing and directing an advert for Chevrolet as part of the Mofilm Cannes Lions 2012.
Shooting in a school with around 100 volunteer extras was a bit of a mad shoot but there was so much fun on the set and we're so pleased with the results.
Special mention to the Dads who helped out and were more than happy to look like fools in front of their kids..









Check the video out here

Grand Gestures - There's No Place Like Home

We recently shot a short film/music video, inspired by the music of the Grand Gestures.

A collaborative production by Black Revolver Films and Mitcham Submarine, shot in one evening. 

Click here to see it

Hadouken - Behind the Scenes

We recently shot a behind the scenes documentary for Hadouken! and their new single Bad Signal, here's a few stills for your peepers!

European travels in the name of fashion.

We have just come out of a crazy fortnight that has seen us board 8 flights to visit 6 cities in just as many countries in order to film 7 selected gurus of the fashion World.  This list included Karolina Kurkova and Olivia Palermo.  Was an incredible couple of weeks visiting some of Europe's finest cities including sipping a Guinness in Dublin, enjoying a fine Chianti in Milan and tucking into some good Bratwurst from Munich.

Check out a couple of snaps we took below and look out for the edits in the near future.