Bullion popped over to Amsterdam to capture some of the excitement leading up to the Europa League final. Fans of Chelsea and Benfica, with the help of a couple of the best football freestylers in the world, competed in a series of head-to-head challenges across the city in an attempt to win the ultimate UEFA Europa League final experience. The shoot was a massive logistical undertaking, with more than ten cameras shooting simultaneously. Click the image to see how the teams got on.

Directed by Bullion Collective

Bullion presents the surreal video for Girls Names’ new single ‘Hypnotic Regression’. Directed by Nick Thompson, the video perfectly reflects the murky post-punk aesthetic of Girls Names’ music. Click the the image to watch.

Director: Nick Thompson
Production Company: Bullion Productions
Exec Producer: Ollie Evans
Producers: Drew O’Neill, Simona Boulding
DOP: Jamie Durand
Camera Assistant: Dom Herd
Gaffer: Josh Adams
Stylist: Joanne Shippen
Make Up: Claire Belling
Art Direction: Sets Appeal
Runner: Doug Cox
Cast: Jordann Ebbitt
Owl: Courtesy of Jill Clark
Edited by: Alastair Graham
Colorist: Jack McGinity (Rushes)

Bullion Productions is proud to present Louis and McCourt’s new video for Mat Zo and Porter Robinson’s Easy. Amazing work the boys at The Line! We love it

Directed by: Louis & McCourt
Studio: The Line
Production Company: Bullion

Show your support for the Kurupt Chamuity! People Just Do Nothing t-shirts are now available, get ‘em here while they’re hot.

People Just Do Nothing and Mix Mag present the final part in the ‘How To’ tutorials. You’ve cut your track, now let Chabuddy G take you through the basics of promotion as only he knows how. Click the image to get the knowledge.

Written/ Produced/Directed and Edited by
Allan Mustafa
Hugo Chegwin
Steve Stamp
Asim Chaudhry
Ben Murray

The Bullion Collective team up with production company Partizan to direct this viral video for Windows phones. Funnyman James Corden talks us through what he loves about his new handset, and we get to see the best photo he’s ever taken. Click the picture to check it out.

Directed and shot by Bullion Collective
Produced by Ella More O’Ferrall
Production Manager: Natalie Wetherell
Edited by Kevin Konak
Production Company – Partizan

Every day for an entire week, at Victoria Station, British Airways gave away tickets to various destinations. Bullion was there to capture the excitement. We created teasers for the giveaway every day, which can be found here, and we’re also completing 7 edits for the relevant tourist boards.

Directed by Bullion Collective
Producer: Drew O’Neill
Camera: Susanne Willett, Arthur Loveday
Sound Op: Daniel Brosnan
Runner: Rufus Day
Overview editor: Kevin Konak
Teaser editor: Rob Savage
Colorist: Ricardo Lemos

Bullion team up with Vice to shoot and direct artist Raphael Rozendaal’s colourful vision for the new pan-European Ford Fiesta commercial. Rozendaal managed to turn a car into a vibrant work of art, with a little help from the Bullion boys.

Shot and directed by the Bullion Collective.

Bullion donned their comedy hats to team up with Johnathan Ross’s production company Hot Sauce to film the celebrity questions that were featured in this year’s Big Fat Quiz of the Year, along with the special Big Fat Quizzes of the 70′s, 80′s and 90′s.

Bullion Collective team up with Vice and The Creators Project, to visit UK-based digital art studio FIELD to learn how two brilliant artists created one of the most mind bending film projects we’ve ever seen.

Ross McDowell and Bullion Collective’s Ben Murray have finally followed up their MVA nominated video for Disclosure’s Control with the sumptuous and alluring visuals for the duo’s new single, Latch. The video sees three couples come together in there very different situations, capturing the mood of both the track and the scene behind the music. Bullion are proud to present the video for the up and coming group’s meteoric single.

PRODUCTION COMPANY: Bullion
DIRECTORS: Ross McDowell & Ben Murray (Bullion Collective)
PRODUCER: Shimmy Ahmed
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Drew O’Neill
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Rio Cahill

FIRST AD: James Evered
DOP: Dan Stafford-Clark
FOCUS PULLER: Dave Agha-Rafei
2nd AC: Stephanie Kennedy
GAFFER: Jonathan Spencer

ART DIRECTOR: Greg Hewitt
ART ASSISTANT: Jess Esmond
ART RUNNER: Ruth Soria
PLAYBACK: John Moore
RUNNER: Ross Carmalt Walker
RUNNER: Rufus Day & Ore Okonedo

SYLIST: Laura Coulson
ASSISTANT: Scarlet Haynes
MAKEUP: Anna Thompson
CASTING: Lydia Garnett
STORYBOARDING: Martin Mamo Morris

EDITED BY: Tom Watson
COLORIST: Matt Hare (Glassworks)
POST: Ross McDowell

Cast:
Amanda Piery
Sarah-Jane Howard
Poalo Gallardo
Layla Young
Stephen Kelly
Genevieve Capovilla

Bullion’s coverage of the Bike V Design event at the Design Museum, featuring talks and displays from some of the leading figures in the bike world. Click on the image to play the video.

Director: James Gordon
Assistant Director: Drew O’Neill
Camera: Pascal Emmenegger & Maria Cecilia
Sound: Alex Myers & Doug Beales
Edit: Max Goldini
Mix: Howard Whiddett
Music: Adam Pleass & Howard Whiddett

For the release of Metronomy’s mixtape for Late Night Tales, Metronomy exclusively covers Jean Michelle Jarre’s Hypnose. Director Daniel Brereton places these eerie sounds alongside the sincerest of pet portraiture, invading people’s homes and giving even the cutest pets a seemingly alien and menacing agenda.

Director: Daniel Brereton (Partizan)
Producer: Drew O’Neill
DOP: Arthur Loveday
Production Manager: Maria Cecilia
Production Assistant: Lara Lanlan
Editor: Kelly Armstrong
Colourist: Daniel Gill (The Farm Group)
Production Company: Bullion Productions

Watch the awkward performances of band mates imitating each other, Stars in Their Eyes style, in Bullion’s video for Fiction – Careful.

Directed and Shot by : Bullion Collective (Jack and James)
Producer: Laura Coulson
1st AD: Ben Coverdale
Camera Assistant: Arthur Loveday
2nd AC: Ben Marshall
Playback/DIT: Linzi Mangan
Runner: Joe Thompson
Art Director: Dale Slater
Hair and Makeup: Anna Thompson
Stylist: Ben H

Editor: James Paul Willis
Post and Colour Grade: Maria Cecilia

Red Alert, Red Alert, there’s been a murder! All tha garage raves are DEAD…

Make sure you catch People Just Do Nothing on BBC iPlayer this week. Spread the love for the pilot and fuck funky.

PJDN on iPlayer

Disclosure has been bubbling for a couple of years and having released their first EP with Greco-Roman records, it looks like they’ve finally boiled over. Bullion was asked to direct and produce their first official video, Control. In a series of video portraits, we watch as a selection of characters lose their cool as Disclosure’s trademark illustrated mask starts to rule their movements.

Click on the image to play the video

Directors: Ben Murray (Bullion Collective) and Ross McDowell
Producer: Drew O’Neill
Production Company: Bullion
DOP: Jack Newman (Bullion Collective)
Focus Puller: Sam Vines
2nd AC: Darren Ladbury
Stylist: Laura Coulson
Hair and Make-up: Anna Thompson
Production Assistants: James Gordon, Linzi Mangan
Runners: Rio Cahill, Ed Smith
Playback: John Malcolm Moore
Editors: Chris Roebuck, Ben Murray and Ross McDowell
Grade: Danny Atkinson aka Grade Face Killer
Compositing: Ross McDowell and John Malcolm Moore

Special thanks to James Irwin at Focus 24, John Forsyth at Panalux and Steve at Trackside

Ollie Evans brings you his second video for Summer Camp, Always. The couple set out on a old English holiday through coastal towns, visiting the beaches and arcades. Everything seems perfect for the happy couple, but is there something more sinister about this great British trip away?

A Bullion/Partizan production. Click on the image to play the video.

Director: Ollie Evans
Producer: Jonathan Mealing
Prod Co: Bullion/Partizan
D.O.P: Ozzie Pullin
Art Direction: Sets Appeal
Wardrobe: Michelle Jeffrey
Editor: Neil Drummond
VFX: Alistair Graham
Grade: Jack McGinty
Commissioner: Louise Latimer
Victim: Ollie Mealing
Van Supplied By: CJ’s Campers

James from Bullion Collective teams up with Team Sky for their Tour de France 2012 promo video. Starring Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins this short teaser is part of three-minute video that is to be released later this month.
Bullion would like to say a special thanks to Kevin at Tenthree (tenthree.co.uk). Click on the image.

Director/Produce: James Willis
Commissioner: Simon Rose
Editor / Sound Design: Kevin Palmer @Tenthree
Music: The Elite – Go Far (Team Sky)
teamsky.com
tenthree.com

Here is Bullion’s new music video for Little Boots’ Headphones which reveals a host of character’s secret personalities in a seedy peep-show booth, even for the star herself.

LITTLE BOOTS – HEADPHONES

Directed and shot by Bullion Collective
Producer: Elliott Tagg
Production Manager: Dale Healy
Unit Manager: Geoff Morgan
1st AD: Nick Goulden
2nd AD: Ollie Williamson
Focus Puller: Sam Vines
2nd AC: Darren Ladbury (Focus24)
DIT: Anna Meller
Gaffer: Genki McClure
Spark: Seb Lamb and Aaron Szogi
Art Director: David Curtis-Ring
Art Assistant: Eddie Hecht
Artist Stylist: Harry Lambert
Artist Make-up: Lucy Bridge
Stylist: Joseph Crane
Make-up & Hair: Claire Belling and Jojo Copeman
Runners: Esther McRae, Linzi Mangan and James Heaphy

Post Production:
Editor: Anna Meller (Bullion Collective)
Grader: Richard Fearon @ Prime Focus
Post Production Producer: Daphne Sofroniou @ Prime Focus
Special Thanks to: Brett Webb @ Partizan and Focus24

Cast:
Colin Boyd
Natalia Campbell
Yasmin Ogbu
D’Relle
Miss Eleanor
Darron Gifty
Daniel Lismore
Munroe

Bullion recently teamed up with Zappar to shoot the green screen for their new app, which brings their most recent Tatler magazine cover to life.

The app enables users to extract visuals from the magazine, to dress like The Queen, or picture their friends wearing the Crown Jewels, and then share the images via social networking sites including Facebook and Twitter.

The cover, photographed by Paul Smith, also includes an exclusive augmented reality corgi which comes to life with Zappar.

Media Week Coverage

Independent film guerrillas, Cannes in a Van, have announced their newest lineup for Screen Social, an event combining the best in film and music production on April 12th at The Book Club EC2. Bullion have been invited as special guests for the event with a showcase alongside Spanish production collective, Canada, a live set from Franz Kirmann as well as a cocktail of short films and DJs from the likes of The Sound of Film and Cosmo Disco.

Come along and show your support at what promises to be a fresh and exciting feast for your eyes and ears. From Seven.
Click on the poster.

And here’s a little teaser from Franz Kirmann’s Random Access Memories.

The time has come to show you Bullion’s live coverage of Labrinth and iLuminate’s performance at the Sony Xperia launch party. Shooting with six cameras, the footage was put together throughout a sleepless overnight edit for release today. The star who released ‘Electronic Earth’ on April 2nd joined America’s Got Talent finalists, iLuminate in a dazzling live performance to celebrate the album launch as well as Sony’s first smartphone, the Xperia S.

As a bonus for Phones4U customers, exclusive footage of the star performing his hit single, ‘Earthquake’ will also be available this Easter.

Soundtrack: ‘Last Time’ (Knife party remix) / ‘Last Time’ (live)
Labrinth’s album ‘Electronic Earth’ is out on iTunes

The Radio Soulwax has revealed its Mystery Hour, Under the Sheets Vol. 3.

Download now from the 2ManyDJs website.

And check out our trailer for the mix below. It’s a goodun.

2 years old today, Bullion celebrates in style on set alongside Sir Paul Smith and a whole lot of corgis.
More info to follow soon.

Already finished shooting, good things can be heard from Roughcut’s BBC Three pilot show for People Just Do Nothing, featuring Bullion’s own Ben Murray as the show’s associate producer and one of the original creators of the show. Check out Sniper and the boys on location in these stills from the last week. Keep your eyes peeled, PJDN and Kurupt FM is gonna blow up.

Check out their webisodes here in our films section

Big up the chamunity and good luck finishing up boys.

To celebrate the UK launch of epic party mocumentary, Project X, Vice magazine hosted its own rawkus warehouse party in East London, complete with bands, DJs, bouncy castle and even pinatas. Bullion were on hand to capture what unfolded, with Vice editing overnight and delivering a completed short to be released alongside the feature on the night of its launch. Watch as creme de Bullion get in people’s faces and bare all for Vice and Project X.

Here are some stills from the night. Watch the video CLICK HERE

Lost in the cheesy soft focus of an awkward photographer’s studio is Partizan and Bullion’s new co-produced music video for Summer Camp’s Losing My Mind. Buy into the nostalgia and charm of this contrived photo shoot. The group’s debut LP, Welcome to Condale is out on Moshi Moshi.

Click on the image to watch the video

Summer Camp ‘Losing My Mind’
Director & Producer: Ollie Evans
Prod Co: Bullion/Partizan
D.O.P: Jamie Durand
1st A.D: Simon Whybray
Art Director: Sophie Jacobs (Sets Appeal)
Art Dept: Hela Dondertman (Sets Appeal)
Editor: Neil Drummond (A&N)
AFX: Alastair Graham (A&N)
Stylist: Michelle Jeffrey
Grade: Jack McGinty
Runner: Matt Bolt

Bullion’s video for Jamie N Commons’ second single, Devil in Me, due for release on Luv Luv Luv Records March 12. Following the company’s success with his debut single, director’s Ben Murray and James Willis have moved from dystopian landscapes to paranoiac suspense to bring Jamie’s unique talent for darkness and biblical flair to life once more.

The video is featured on NME.com or watch below by clicking on the image.

Jamie N Commons – Devil in Me (Luv Luv Luv Records)
A video by the Bullion Collective

CAST: Daniel Vivian

DIRECTOR: Ben Murray, James Willis
PRODUCER: Tiwirayi Magwenzi
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Jonathan Mealing

DOP: Annika Summerson
FOCUS PULLER: Daniel Wombwell
2ND AC: Victoria Batt
2ND UNIT CAMERA: Jade Gough
GAFFER: Ben Marshall
SPARK: Lamia Zaghloul

FIRST AD: Nick Goulden
RUNNER: Andrew Allen

ART DIRECTOR: Martha Parker
SYLIST: Candice Bailey
HAIR & MAKE-UP: Anna Thompson

EDITOR: Anna Meller
COLOURIST: Alexis Odiowei at RUN Productions

Special thanks to ARRI Media and Panalux

Before Christmas, Bullion’s Jack Newman and James Willis teamed up with Chris Fields and production studio, Taylor James, to create these ‘cinemagraphs’, injecting the life of motion into still photography. The result is an exciting new form that offers new commercial opportunities for photography to span print, digital and interactive arenas.

Taylor James creative production studio website

Click on the images below and watch them come alive.

Here’s a couple more stills from the shoot.

Photography : Christopher Fields
Creative: James Willis and Chris Fields
Lighting: Jack Whilding Newman
Post Production: Barry Craig @ Taylor James

Bullion is finally proud to present Beardyman’s Big Man. Collaborating with Chris Cairns and the good people at Partizan, Bullion’s Ben Murray has produced the beat-boxing funnyman’s music video for his tale of an impatient loiterer eager to grow a beard and meet that bird who is fit as hell.

Click on the image to play the video.

Directed By Chris Cairns and Ross McDowell
Produced By Ben Murray
Productions Manager: Emily Forbes
1st Assistant Director: Nick Goulden
2nd Assistant Director: Harriet Towler
DOP: Luke Palmer
Focus Puller: Jeremy Fusco
Camera Trainee: Louise Murphy
DIT: Dan Lowe
Gaffer: Pete Brimson
Production Designer: Martha Parker
Production Designer: Emily Forbes
Stylists: Emily Forbes & Lulu Murray
Hair & Make up: Anna Thompson & Sarah Jane Lyon
Post Production: Trim
A Partizan and Bullion Co-Production

Working with production company Partizan, Bullion’s Jack Newman and James Willis shoot and direct this viral for Windows phones. The viral campaign involves a number of influential people throughout the UK being given phones and using those phones and their apps to organise an event. Here we see Alex James from Blur receiving his phone at his home in the countryside where he now has turned his main interest into making cheese. The rest of the Alex James story was directed by Poppy De Villeneuve of Partizan.

Credits: Directed and shot by James Willis and Jack Newman (Bullion Collective)
Produced by Julie Crosbie of Partizan Dark Room
Edited by Kevin Konak
Production Company: Partizan

Here’s a link to the Into Windows app: www.intowindowsphone.com

2012 begins for Bullion with the release of a music video for Ivory Seas’ single, Boundary. The still life scenes are subtly injected with the life of movement, whether that be from a drop of paint, a trail of smoke or the gulp of a fish.

‘Boundary’ by Ivory Seas
Produced by Richard Formby (Wild Beasts)
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Soundcloud
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Click on the image below to play the video.

DIRECTOR: Jack Whilding Newman
PRODUCER: David Stafford-Clark
PRODUCTION COMPANY: BULLION PRODUCTIONS

DOP: Dan Wombwell
FIRST AC: Ori Sinai
SECOND AC: Dom Herd

ART DIRECTOR: Teresa Santos
PHOTOGRAPHER: Corinne Silva
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: Siobhan Spence-Edwards
MAKEUP AND SPECIAL FX ARTIST: Claire Belling
BIRD WOMAN: Emma Sylvester

EDITOR: Anna Meller
COLOUR GRADER: Alex Berry

As a Christmas treat, Bullion directed and shot this viral for advertising powerhouse Saatchi & Saatchi. Scaling fences and climbing walls, the camera crew sneak their way into prime position for the unveiling of a guerrilla Christmas decoration operation.. of Buckingham Palace.

The viral is now featured on The Reel.net, a website showcasing the world’s best in TV, cinema and viral advertising. The video also gained widespread acknowledgement throughout the web, even featuring on the Mirror’s website.

Check out the viral below…

Bored by another traditional fashion shoot, a fashion photographer tries a new approach to his work in Bullion’s new visual accompaniment to Alex Metric and Charli XCX’s new track, End of the World. Alex’s production drives this feast of revelling and posing admidst a barrage of wind and paint.

Click on the image to watch the video.

A video by Bullion Collective
Production Company: Bullion Productions
Directors: James Willis and Ricardo Lemos
Producer: David Stafford-Clark
Director Of Photography: Jack Newman
Focus Puller: Dan Wombwell
DIT: Ori Sinai
Spark: Arthur Loveday
Art Director: Teresa Santos
Art Department Assistant: Daniella Olaleye
Wardrobe Stylist: Elliott Dollie
Make-Up Artist: Xabier Celaya
Hair Stylist: Luke Collins
Manicurist: Nadia Blanco
Production Assistant: Owen Jowett
Editor: Rebecca Luss @ tenthree
Grade: Alex Berry

Congratulations to Jamie N Commons for making the BBC’s top 15 artists to watch out for in their Sound of 2012. Bullion recently completed the video for Jamie’s debut single, ‘The Preacher’, which is featured on the website. The segment also includes Dalston superstars- Spector, with whom Bullion have also worked, producing a video for their single, ‘What You Wanted’

The BBC Sound of 2012 list aims to highlight the most promising new music for the year ahead. The artists on the list were chosen by 184 UK-based tastemakers, who each named their favourite three new artists, with the top 15 artist making up a longlist.

Watch on BBC – Sound of 2012 website or click on the image below

Working in collaboration with Partizan once again, Bullion have produced a making of viral for the Velvet’s new series of TV ads. Using the toilet tissue itself as the medium, the ads use animation to tell consumers of Velvet’s new ‘three tree promise’. Revealing the process of this major mainstream commercial, we see the meticulous preparation and work that goes into the production of this creative series.

Directed and filmed by – The Bullion Collective
Edited by – Kevin Konak and Scott Mason at Partizan

Watch the making of video below:

The first ad has been released and can be viewed here:

Bullion’s video for Craze and Hoax’s, ‘Wait For Me’ has been nominated for best budget dance video at the UK Music Video Awards 2011. Completed earlier this year, the artist’s debut music video has been shortlisted along with 5 others to collect the prize at the awards ceremony at the Empire in Leicester Square on 8th November. Craze and Hoax recently reached number 2 in the charts with their production on Emeli Sande’s Heaven and have quickly established themselves this year as some of the UK’s most important up and coming music producers. Their first independent release, Wait For Me, gave Bullion (directors Ben Murray and Steve Stamp) the opportunity to create a music video that is both fresh and fun- hopefully worthy of Craze and Hoax’s track- hopefully worthy of that award too.

The mvas are the UK’s premiere music video awards celebration. Now in its fourth year, the event celebrates the very best work in British and now International music videos with a range of over 20 awards. Check out the video below, and the rest of the shortlist on ukmva’s website

Craze and Hoax – Wait For Me

Directors: Ben Murray and Steve Stamp
Producers: Ben Murray and Jack Whilding Newman
DOP: Jack Whilding Newman
Editor: Anna Meller
Art Director: Martha Parker
1st AD: Sam Hawkins
Grade: Alexis Odiowei at Run Productions

During the months of September to January Ben and Jack from Bullion helped Chris Cairns and the fine people from Partizan shoot a short promotional film for the Warehouse Project up in Manchester.

Weekends spent in the rave creating multiple time lapse motion control rigs, shooting with the phantom flex and creating a series of animations produced some stunning results. Check the video below.