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Music Videos

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Creating a visual companion piece which presents your music.

We get regular requests for music videos. Every music video is different and can range from a simple montage video of iPhone footage to a fully planned production requiring location and casting management. Here’s some examples below:

Anton O’Donnell - Skulduggery

A simple “live footage” music video made while Anton was on tour to support a single release. We were quite lucky with the lighting in the venue, and with some clever colour grading, the results are quite striking.

Mark W. Georgsson - Gleði (Joy)

Macon Heights - Headlights

St.Dukes - Animal glue(LNFG)

They say you can’t have the perfect music video, but this one has graphics borrowed from Scoobie Doo, Seventies hair, makeup and props and a cameo from Peter Johnson :)

Fat Cops(feat. Loki) - High Expectations

A great example of a narrative video. This was great fun to shoot and plan

Sister John - How Can I Keep It Alive(LNFG)

 

Made in lockdown, we built a simple video around headshots and effects

The Byson Family - Angel of the Reckless(Townsend Music)


Recorded during lockdown, the video was put together from video footage that all the musicians shot themselves on phones. We then added some simple graphics to bring the footage together. Read about it here


Gracious Losers - Loath to Leave(LNFG)

Lockdown video #346645. Jonathan and Amanda shot a continuous reel on a static go pro and then we edited it to move their positions through the scene. The video was given a 60’s feel to the in with the lyrical themes

John Rush - Sister(23 Music)

Another video filmed in lockdown. In this case, we filmed everything outside by building a photography studio in the garden. Read about it here


Fenella - I Will Not Win (Little Tiger Records)

Fenella wanted something influenced by the Andy Warhol screen tests to go with the feel of her music. We came up with a very simple concept of having her stare at the camera in one single shot. The result is a wonderfully evocative and intimate companion piece for the video. Read about it here

“With a stirring effect on the viewer, it allows the focus to remain on her stunning vocals and moving lyrics” - Tenement TV


Mark W. Georgsson - Oh My Dear Friend (Last Night From Glasgow)  

The band were getting traction and playing some interesting gigs in Iceland. Sadly it was beyond the band’s budget to fly us to Iceland. Instead the band collected travel footage on their phones and we put it together.


Emme Woods - I’ve been Running (Last Night From Glasgow)

We worked on this with Jamie from Bella Rebel Media. Following a day of recording the single, we drove around at night until we found a playpark and filmed a simple piece on a roundabout which focused on Emme Woods performing a variety of actions that looked great on camera. The result was perfect for the song.


The Byson Family - Little Bit Longer(Townsend Music)

The Byson Family were recording their debut single at Cavasound in Glasgow. We popped along and made a simple “in the studio” video. We went for warm autumn colours to suit their sound.


Fenella - Shooter (Creeping Bent)

Building on her previous single, we discussed a rough narrative for a video which was influenced by film noir and the lyrics of the video. The video takes place in one location and is based around shots of Fenella acting out a dream sequence. Read about it here


Iona Music Festival - Montage Video

We were covering photography at Iona Music Festival and caught enough video to put together this lovely montage of the event.


Anton & The colts - My favourite Song

We recorded a simple single with Anton called ‘My Favourite Song’. It’s a beautiful song and we used an empty lounge bar near his house to create a narrative based video interspersed with archive footage which matched the mood of the song.


Petty Cassettes - Don’t Lock the Door

After doing a number of live videos for Petty Cassettes, they asked us to do a music video for their single. We filmed the band on a soundstage and then interspersed it with narrative footage shot in Kilmarnock.


John Rush - Gold & Green(23 Music)

John asked us to film a video for him in the legendary Barrowlands Ballroom. A simple but beautiful video, we used to creative lighting techniques to film him and some dancers on the dancefloor. The whole thing is rendered in Black and White to present the themes of the song. Read about it here


Nicol & Elliott - Wish You’d Stayed Away(LNFG)

This is a simple video for a lovely song. The band is based around the duo of Andrew and Rachel. We filmed them performing the song from a variety of different angles to catch their personality and edited it together.


Sixth Avenue Traffic - 9:15

We met with the band to discuss a variety of ideas for the video. We filmed the band in a rehearsal studio and then flavoured the edit with a lot of RGB effects from Adobe After Effects.


RV Narang - Desi State of mind

RV had shot the footage for his video and we were asked to edit it. The source material was very colourful and lent itself well to using a lot of glitch transitions in Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects.


Al & The Bad Decisions - Make a home

A simple “in the studio” video. Each band member was videoed as they recorded their part and then the whole thing was edited together.


Anton O’Donnell - On the way down(Need to know music)

During lockdown, Anton started working with a label in California. Restrictions were slowly being lifted and we produced a video that mixed Gopro footage shot by the band with professional footage of Anton on a white background.

Petty Cassettes - Lately

The video was shot entirely on lockdown. We talked the band through catering their own footage with what they had. They also got fans to submit phone footage. Everyone was discovering remote working on Zoom so we leaned on that as a theme.

Al & the Bad Decisions - Jailhouse Blues

The band recorded the entirely in isolation during COVID-19. They then all contributed footage shot on their phones and we put together a ‘Live in the studio’ type video.

Anton & The Colts - Boy Living for the weekend(Need to know music)

Probably our favourite video we’ve ever done and we didn't shoot any of it!! Deep in the throes of lockdown, we gave a Gopro to Anton and used trial and error and back and forth until he delivered us about 800 hours of footage that allowed us to build a narrative of an illegal lockdown party where he played all the parts. Read about it here

Jamie Reilly - A. I. Blues

For Jamie’s debut single, we shot footage at a cool location - The Sugar Sheds in Greenock and then coupled it with visual affects and archive footage.

Al & The Bad Decisions - Wolverine

It’s pretty much impossible to get a nine piece band together for a video in 2020. Skating incredibly close to some trademarks, we decided to lean heavily on graphics and some bells and whistles from Apple Motion. The musicians in the band are so active that there was plenty archive footage kicking about. We then added a shot of Alex singing the vocals and asked our wardrobe and makeup department to pull out all the stops on a super-hero costume.

Sister John - In My Place(LNFG)

Really pleased with the colours and styles that came out of this one. You can read a bit about the background here.

Peter Johnstone - Yoko Ono

Read about it here

In The Forest - Light That Shines(LNFG)

Our most socially distanced video ever, in that we’ve never met the band. They filmed various scenes and we edited them together.

Fat Cops - Plan of Attack(LNFG)

Read about it here