May 2010

SHOT: Muse - Anthony Mandler, dir. (MTV + Vh1 Global Premiere)

MTV and Vh1 will be serving up a global premiere this Thursday for Muse "Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)," the first video in support of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

The video will debut on MTV, VH1, MTV2, mtvU, MTV Hits, MTV.com, and VH1.com as well as on MTV and VH1's international channels on Thursday, May 20 at 8pm ET. Viewers can also go to muse.mtv.com on Thursday, May 20 beginning at 12pm ET/PT to get their fix

SHOT: Mark Ronson - Warren Fu, dir.

Directed by new Partizan signing Warren Fu, who's best know for his Strokes + Julian Casablancas videos... Fu is now with Partizan for commercials/videos worldwide, with Doomsday Ent repping for videos in the US...

"Bang Bang Bang" will support Ronson's forthcoming album, Record Collection...

  • artist: Mark Ronson f/ Q-Tip
  • song: "Bang Bang Bang"
  • label: Columbia UK
  • director(s): Warren Fu
  • production co: Partizan
  • rep: Doomsday Ent

WATCH IT: Ben Harper "Skin Thin" (Daniel Stessen, dir.)

Luck and timing can be the difference between "happily ever after" and a lifetime of solitude. That's the tenuous, thin skin this music video character study rests upon, showing two lonely souls adrift in snowy, small town lives. Director Daniel Stessen and DP Sam Gezari shot in a style that Stessen calls "staged documentary" — no Ben Harper, no performance, real locations, no staging, no script, real people (aka: no actors) and no crew — on-location mostly in and around Syracuse, NY. Split-screens amp up the presumably fated get-together of the two leads — a rugged guy with multiple jobs and a sense of family vs. a a sexy stripper who knows she could do better — but Stessen keeps you hanging until the very last moment of the video, eking out every bit of drama.

WATCH IT: Drake "I Find Your Love" (Anthony Mandler, dir.)

Guns, Gals and Ganja. Drake flexes his acting chops in this moody bit of island gangster noir shot on-location in Jamaica. Director Anthony Mandler sets the rapper/actor up in a classic love triangle doublecross in which a sexy girl has caught the attention of both Drake and the bad guy gangster, played here by dancehall star Mavado. --> watch "I Find Your Love"

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