Take some Stevie Nicks, add a touch of disco, let the ladies of Haim lord over some beautiful landscapes and the end result is a song/video that can even make a wild animal stop in its tracks.
It may seem like director Emil Nava came out of nowhere in 2014 with a prodigious output of creative videos for the likes of Ed Sheeran and Calvin Harris. But, it's the culmination of many years as an AD and then a director in the UK — in addition to the fact that filmmaking is in his blood with his entire family in the film industry, including brother Jake Nava, who is also a music video director.
We recently caught up with Emil to chat about his transition to the US market, and what was inarguably a smashing year for him, by both creative and commercial standards with Nava nabbing an MTV VMA for Best Male Video via Ed Sheeran "Sing," while also getting two Brit Award Best Video nods for Ed Sheeran "Thinking Out Loud" and Calvin Harris "Summer".
Are the Feds watching? If so, get the footage and work it into your video... That's the premise for this new Pusha T clip, which mixes surveillance cams with a more traditional performance, and a less traditional dancer.
Welcome to a very dangerous ballet where our heroine finds herself under fire from all directions. Luckily, she has moves that would make even Neo jealous.
Not all Gifted Youngsters wind up under the tutelage of Professor Xavier. EDM star Alesso comes to the rescue of a group of less appreciated, yet still extraordinarily talented kids in this inspirational video where Tove Lo sings the hook and we witness how easy a breakout can be when you have wings...
Look, this song will be played at weddings from now until eternity, so why shouldn't Ed Sheeran beat everyone to the punch and show you how graceful that first dance could look? And the fact that this is an intricate routine that's just begging for real couple to try and replicate at their weddings means that this could go very viral. Or, at least, serve as a great audition for Dancing With The Stars.
Finding a creative way to pull off the movie clip job is one of the tougher music video tasks — how to make a video when you need a healthy percentage of movie footage in order to keep the the movie $tudio happy? Rather than come up with some forced mechanism to scatter that footage, Director Emil Nava instead inserts The Vamps into the same Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day world that new movie Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and casts the movie's starlet, Bella Thorne, to star in it.
Many nights out end in regret, but here we see a potential way to either literaly swim away to a better place, or drown those sorrows with more than drinking.
