For Matt Cardle’s acoustic ballad Amazing, Sean de Sparengo films the X Factor winner on an empty stage in this simple performance promo, bolstered by a cast of extras highlighting the emotion in the lyric.

Matt Cardle
Amazing (Columbia)
Director: Sean de Sparengo
Production Company: COY!
Producers: Tiernan Hanby & Campbell Beaton
Director’s Agent: Alexa Haywood @ FreeAgent UK
Exec Producer: Sara Cummins
Co-Producer: Sonya Sier
DP: Ben Moulden
Gaffer: Craig Davis
Camera Operator: Gabi Norland
Camera Operator: Jake Scott
Editor: Claudia Wass
Colorist: Simone Grattarola
Thanks to: Matthew Suddaby @ Panavision, Barnaby Laws @ Panalux, TVC Soho, Charles Gillett @ Rushes, Tricia Newman @ Elstree studios, Jeff Brown @ Brownian Motion
Commissioner: Dan Millar

Following her promo for Big Deal last week, Camille Benett’s promo for indie darlings Binary (her second for the band) premiered on Nylon and NME.com.

“We created a cell of lights around the band, as well as the classic music video criteria of a car and hot girl dancing!” explains Camille. “We shot them using four different cameras, a fisher price pixel vision camera which records onto audio cassette, a VHS camcorder, 16mm Bolex and Red Epic which was pretty fun, if a little fiddly…”

Binary
Prisoner (Luv Luv Records)
Director: Camille Benett
Producer: Sonya Sier
Production Company: Fresh Light Films
DoP: Jake Scott
Focus Puller: Ahmet Husseyian
Gaffer: Steve Cortie
DIT: Mike McDuffie Finlay at Brownian Motion
Edit Assistant: Alice Wagstaffe
Stylist: Amanda Tuckwell
Make Up Artist: Daisy Lyddon
Runner: Sam Craven
Colourist: Martin Southworth at Nice Biscuits
Online Editor: Paul Wratten
Actors: Hanako Footman and Will Babbington

After their video for Homework, Big Deal combine with Camille Benett again for the atmospheric Distant Neighbourhood, shooting the duo – Kacey Underwood and the photogenic Alice Costelloe – in Black Park near Pinewood.

“Driving through the woods to the lake was amazingly spooky in the dark with the trees lit up by the massive lights from the film productions going on in there at the same time,” says Camille. “As usual we had loads of fun making it, running through the woods with smoke flares and chucking Alice into the freezing lake – we even managed to get a pink cadillac in for good measure!”

Big Deal
Distant Neighbourhood (Mute)
Director: Camille Benett
Producer: Sonya Sier
Prod co: Fresh Light Films
DoP: Jake Scott
Focus puller: Mike McDuffie Finlay
Production designer: Dave Paul
Runner: Sam Craven
Post Production: Nice Biscuits
Colourist: Martin Southworth
Online edit: Russ Shaw and Anthony Brownmoore
Commissioner: John Moule