Edward Drake

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Loud Visionaries Profile: Director Edward John Drake

All week we'll be reprinting The 405's music video series Loud Visionaries Week. Yesterday was all about Hiro Murai, but today they shine the light on Edward John Drake .The 405 presents their Loud Visionaries series focusing on the new wave of music video directors and creatives.

LOUD VISIONARIES: Edward John Drake, director

Born to be a James Bond villain — though fortunately for us he's taken to crafting music videos & commercials with powerful emotional hooks at play — Edward John Drake jumped on a short call between shots on a new music video he's directing. With genre-defining artists like Klangkarussell, the Stanton Warriors and Kat Krazy paying generously for his time, he's become the go-to guy in electronic music for brave characters and thought provoking themes. Former assistant to Mark Romanek, office drone on True Detective — and now creating worlds of his own — Edward John Drake is a name you could get used to hearing more often.

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Kat Krazy "Siren" (Edward Drake, dir.)

Recently, I had the opportunity to PA on a pretty cool shoot. The director was cool with me snapping a few stills on set, too. This is my favorite - there's something harmonious about the framing fo the monitor on the red, showing the final image of what everyone's been working for. The audience will never see the lighting rig, bounce boards, or know of how cold that one Summers night in Mailbu was. 

Everything for this.