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BATTLES - Fort Greene Park
A hilarious and insane project for Battles!
Mike's HARDER Lemonade
Some director’s cuts of three spots I directed for Mike’s HARDER this summe!. It was really fun figuring out how to achieve all of these gag reveals in-camera.
Playboy - The Playhouse - Peepshow
Some risky business co-directed with Kevin Hayden.
Callum Beattie - Connection
New music vid work out! Callum Beattie - “Connection”
An overall really fun and goofy video to put together. Thanks to Callum for being game to do all this ridiculous stuff; Tom Elliott for the amazing maneuvering; Joe Youens for producing this madness; Myles Bevan for color; Alex Burt for edit; Unit9 Films for production; and everyone else involved who helped make this funny idea come to life.
Director's Notes: Skin Crawl
We’ve been fortunate to have a great reception for the Alice Phoebe Lou video! I have a new article up on Director’s Notes talking about the process behind the video, with a lot of background and BTS.
https://directorsnotes.com/2019/01/22/colin-read-skin-crawl/
Alice Phoebe Lou - Skin Crawl
New music video out for Alice Phoebe Lou!
With her lyrics, Alice reminds that women are more than just objects for men to use. So for the video, I inverted that dynamic, and had Alice using men as objects—literally.
Official music video for “Skin Crawl,” the second single of Alice Phoebe Lou’s new album “Paper Castles,” out on March 8, 2019.
Director & Editor - Colin Read
Produced by - Peregrine Films
Producer - Bastian Loewen
DoP - Lucas Fiederling
AC / Gaffer - Ignacio J Durruty
AD - Niklas Coskan
Best Boy / BTS - Dan Schulz
Colorist - Jenny Montgomery, Company 3
Catering - Andrea Scotti
Makeup - Laura Müller
Driver - Bob Spencer
Equipment - Tectum Rental
Shot at Welcome Home Studios Berlin
The Boys - Cesar, Dekel, Nate, Eden, Paolo, Ziv, Pauly, Huy, Erich, Paul, Leon, Guy, & James
Brother Dege - The Moon and the Scarecrow
Happy to finally share this. Early this summer we shot this video for Brother Dege in the wheat fields of Germany. It was a very small budget, so I figured one way to save money is to forgo any lighting kit at all. So we aimed for a “Days of Heaven” vibe, trying to use only the few hours before sunset, and then shooting ll the night scenes solely by firelight. Shot on Alexa Mini with Cooke anamorphics.
Full credits:
Director & Editor - Colin Read
DoP - Lucas Fiederling
Produced by - Peregrine Films
Producer - Bastian Loewen
AD - Niklas Coskan
1st AC - Jon Wolf
2nd AC - Lucas Rücker
Best Boy - Micha Grajewski
Hair & Make-Up - Laura Müller
Colorist - Jaime O'Bradovich, Company 3
Starring - Dege Legg & Antonia Cojaniz
Location Scout - Martin Gregor
Catering - Katharina Fiederling
DC SHOES: Magenta
A long time coming, can finally share this project for DC Shoes X Magenta. I directed, shot, edited, and did VFX & animation; Vince Canger handled the amazing sound design and score. It was cool bringing Soy Panday’s illustrations to life in the “spiritual journey” animation section, and creating the art direction for all the different “dimensions” that we wormhole through.
Thanks Gaeton Salvignol, Soy, and Chuckie for additional grip/PA help.
Girl "Doll" Skits!
Here’s both skits on their own. The Mike Mo skit has an alternate ending from the one in the full video—let us know which one you like more! Thanks to Ccccchaves and Sam Perkin for the scores of each video.