Panic Cell
thousand words
Dop Tim O'Connell
Telecine Dave Ludlum at Framestore

The brief, brief from the band for this song was "lapdancers"   which became a man obsessed with a lap dancer. Just so long as it involved the band and a lapdancing club. So we came up with the idea of a man so consumed with rage that it ultimately becomes his salvation..and er..some lapdancers.

The shoot began in a nite club in Margate, Kent, co-owned by one of the bands brothers, however the nitemare began a few hours earlier, when at 4pm our lead actress had to pull out leaving us four hours to find a replacement who would be prepared to come to Margate and pole dance in front of a bunch of strangers all night for free. Further more our first A.D was on a shoot and over running. Many frantic calls and emails later the planets aligned and we found Joceline, an actress and model, who as luck would have it lived moments away from the studio where our first A.D had just wrapped. So off we all convoyed down to the coast. We arrived at the nite club at 11 to start shooting at midnight only to find out that it closed at 2am. The sunrise was at 4am so this left us two hours to shoot. We threw half the storyboard in the sea. The club cleared an area upstairs so we could shoot close ups of the dancers, meanwhile our extras got stuck into the free bar. Unfortunately our extras idea of smart dress wasn't quite the same as ours, so we wrangled the four guys who did wear suits into the front of every shot. The bar was cleared by 2.30am and we were done by 5am following some sneeky lighting miracles to cheat the threat of impending daylight that was creeping through the windows.

A couple of weeks later we shot the band at Black Island studios in their huge stage 5. We shot the band against black with very dramatic high contrast lighting, over cranking the camera and shooting with a 90 degree shutter to give a more dramatic feel. We also shot some cutaways of the band playing in sillouette, I couldn't fit them into the Thousand Words cut so I slotted them into a video clip of the song Damn Self Pity which I cut together for the bands web site. This was made up of live footage from a gig at the Electroworks in Angel, Islington   and random CNN footage. The great thing about this promo was that it cost 0 pence to make.

Finally we shot the exteriors and the couple argueing interiors in a house in Wimbledon which featured some outstanding improv from the two leads.

Another blinding TK job by Dave @ Framestore and a spectacular conform by Whispy at the Mill and the promo was delivered to the relevent channels where it is currently doing the rounds..   

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