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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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.