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MEDLO PROJECTS
Welcome to the Medlo Projects section.
Please select an item from the list of recent projects to find out more. |
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THE LOW-LOWS - 'DEAR FLIES, LOVE SPIDER'
A recent promo video for The Low-Lows
(Monotreme Records).
We used carefully edited and processed
stock footage to tell a grim and cautionary tale that
captured the mood of the track. |
Dear Flies Love Spider (MP4/25Mb) |
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65DAYSOFSTATIC - 'DROVE THROUGH GHOSTS TO GET HERE'
An animated music video for math-rock
titans 65daysofstatic.
The film was a collaboration with
Sheffield illustrator Lord Bunn, whose characters
and backdrops were added to layers of video textures
and loops.
The final piece was offered as
an exclusive download-only video single, courtesy
of Kerrang magazine. |
Drove Through Ghosts... (MOV/40Mb) |
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DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 - 'BLACK HISTORY MONTH' REMIXES
A pair of remixed videos released
alongside the music remixes.
Using only the original promo as
a basis, each piece was stripped down to raw beats
and loops, before being layered up with video and
digital interference.
Different colour schemes were used
to give each remix its own visual identity. |
Sammy Danger Remix (MP4/15Mb)
Fred Falke & Alan Brake Remix
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65DAYSOFSTATIC - 'DON'T GO DOWN TO SORROW'
Our promo for the first video from 65dos' third album is a more serious and glossy piece, filled with beautiful lighting rather than frenzied edits.
Shot on one of the newest hi-def digital cameras in the country, the video has proved to be our most sophisticated piece yet. It has also racked up an unfeasible 420,000 hits on Daily Motion - and rising! |
'Don't Go Down To Sorrow' on Daily Motion » |
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PLAN B/HADOUKEN - 'NO MORE EATIN'
Another video remix project for 679 Recordings, this time for two dancefloor remixes of Plan B's acousto-rap anthem, 'No More Eatin'.
The Benning Brookes drum'n'bass dirge ekes out every frame of the original video, whilst Hadouken's electro mash-up gets the full 80s glitch treatment. |
Hadouken Remix (MP4/20Mb)
Benning Brookes Remix (MP4/24Mb) |
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AARON STOUT - 'SPACESTATION'
Our newest animation, working with the fantastic Phlegm Comics, invites you to spend time with the loneliest man in space.
Dan Phlegm's beautiful artwork is given life and in return he adds layer upon layer of detail and pathos to the film. |
Spacestation (MOV/79Mb) |
THE MIRIMAR DISASTER - 'PERSIUS'
A classic Medlo piece - high concept and low, low budget!
Watch in wonder as Metal pioneers 'The Mirimar Disaster' star in an all-too interactive video for one confused fan. |
Persius (MOV/43Mb) |
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'SON OF RAMBOW'
Hammer and Tongs' latest is the nostalgic tale of two childhood friends brought together by the love of Stallone and his inspirational messages.
Medlo was on hand and on set throughout the production creating advanced DVD materials, pre-release web movies and a series of skits that weave dangerously close to a copyright infringement writ from MTV. |
Son of Rambow website » |
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'28 WEEKS LATER'
Unrestriced access on the set of a zombie movie? A dream come true for Medlo who spent much of their time on this horror sequel knee deep in real mud and fake blood.
All this hard work resulted in a series of short web and DVD movies, as well a series of fiction pieces based in the same infected world. |
28 Weeks Later website » |
Flying Limbs movie (MOV/15Mb) |
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'DEAD MAN'S SHOES'
Dave spent two days in deepest Yorkshire on the set of Shane Meadows' cult revenge thriller capturing the mood on set, the machinations of the production and the workings of the Midlands greatest director.
The footage was never used, but we're in credits so it seems like we were more involved than we actually were. Great movie, though. |
Dead Man's Shoes website » |
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'THE BUNKER'
Medlo were handed a shoebox full of DV tapes and a 2 week deadline.
The result? A 25 minute 'making of' documentary that covered all aspects of the production from funding to editing, and that Empire Magazine once called 'good'. |
The Bunker on IMDB » |
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'PETER AND THE WOLF'
Dza and Phil were whisked off to a warehouse in Poland to document the making of this ground-breaking stop-motion version of Sergei Prokofiev's classic story.
The movie was screened on Channel 4 over Christmas 2006 and was also a recipiant of a live score from the London Philamonic Orchestra. |
Peter And The Wolf on IMDB » |
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'CITY OF EMBER'
The film hasn't even started shooting yet, but we've already been on set filming material for industry distributors and marketing purposes.
It's doubtful that our work will ever see the light of day, but we were there and have the passport stamps to prove it. |
City Of Ember on IMDB » |
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'SPECIAL PEOPLE'
This low budget movie is a gentle comedy about the perils of filmmaking.
Shot on location and featuring a largely wheelchair bound cast, Medlo have created a short series of 'making of' documentaries to support the imminent release. |
Special People on IMDB » |
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65DAYSOFSTATIC - 'RADIO PROTECTOR'
A carbon friendly, eco-aware promo for our favourite post-rock friends.
Radio Protector charts the effects of a simple UK tour on the rest of the world, and reveals some very disturbing statistics.
The polaroids featured were attached to the limited 7" releases of the single, and the stock footage was downloaded from Archive.org |
Radio Protector (MOV/65Mb) |
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65DAYSOFSTATIC - 'RETREAT! RETREAT!'
33 takes in a cold warehouse resulted in this tightly edited, colour coded promo for local post-rockers 65daysofstatic.
This was our first official video for the band, following the unreleased Thrash Waltz.
The first version was lost in an enormous computer crash on the eve of the deadline and the final edit was reconstruced in an intense 2 days of no sleep and massive sugar consumption. |
Retreat! Retreat! (MOV) |
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DEAD DISCO - 'YOU'RE OUT'
Colourful and upbeat was the request so, in typical Medlo style, we utilised the colour bars from the original video and set about degrading the rest of the footage. |
You're Out (MP4/19Mb) |
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KING CREOSOTE - 'NO CLUE'
This viral release for the 679 artist is a literal interpretation of the title, as well as a quietly engaging tale of misunderstood fashion. |
No Clue (MOV/25Mb) |
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'THE SHINING' REMIXED AND RESCORED
Following in the footsteps of the likes of DJ Food and D-Fuse's work on reimagining cinematic classics, The Media Lounge approached Andy Dobson from electronica act Digitonal to produce a rescoring project for their 4th season.
The idea was to produce a new version of Kubrick's classic tale of snowbound terror, with plot and dialogue intact, recutting the film into 6, 10-minute sequences which Dobson would rescore.
The resulting score is a mixture of the Hermannesque strings, abstract beats and bags of atmosphere which Digitonal's studio and live work have been associated with. |
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'NAM 2
'Nam 2 is a one hour audiovisual show mixing and blending film and archive footage of the Vietnam war.
Its aim was to question how much we really know about the war and how much is blurred by Hollywood and the media. It's also about history repeating and more importantly it's a bit of fun.
The show is performed live by a DJ and VJ, and debuted at the Big Chill Festival 2005. |
'Nam 2 on MySpace »
'Nam 2 Torrent
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'DAYWATCH'
Dza spent a few weeks meticulously creating a series of glitched, failed and crashed stings for this epic Russian vampire sequel. They're out on there on the web somewhere, but you have to look to find them... |
Daywatch website » |
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'HUSH'
Dave spent much of September 2007 on nightshoots in deepest Yorkshire to capture the machinations and makings of the latest film from celebrated production house Warp Films. The movie is a taught thriller set on the b-roads of Britain and Medlo have created web virals and DVD extras for it. |
Warp X Hush website » |
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65DAYSOFSTATIC - 'DANCE PARTIES'
Take one betamax tape released in 1985 and bought in Russia, subject it to magnets, knifes and dodgy toploading machines, butcher some Lord Bunn animations and finally process it through the Medlo machine and you get the new 65daysofstatic music video - the Distant and Mechanised Glow of Eastern European Dance Parties. |
Dance Parties (MP4/20Mb) |
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NUMBER ONE SON - 'HOURGLASS'
Medlo's first released promo made it east to Asia but never onto UK screens, this video shows the band receiving a mid-gig pep talk from their manager and was shot and cut in just two days. |
'Hourglass' (MP4/35Mb) |
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BANGFACE TV 2008
Invited to host the onsite TV station for the neo-rave armageddon that was the Bangface Weekender 2008. Holed up in a TV studio on the hottest days of the year we subjected the weekend crowd to a bevy of cult movies, obscure AV work, live tomfoolery and the overwhelming presence that is/was/shall always be Normski. Mistakes were made, lessons were learnt, fun was had. |
Bangface TV 2008 highlights »
Bangface TV Facebook group » |
DEDBEAT TV 2004
Our first foray into broadcasting was to the 2500 electronica and hip hop fans who attended the now seminal Dedbeat Festival 2004. Armed only with 2 VHS players, a beta SP camera and a 1970's video mixer we somehow created 72 hours of material - cult movies, drunken rants, celebrity interviews and the occasional competition within a 500 metre radius. |
Dedbeat TV 2004 highlights »
Dedbeat TV 2004 details » |
'BRING ME THE HEAD OF ROB LOWE'
A cut and paste kerb-crawl around the Hollywood backlot, combining shorts, sketches, bootleg music videos and an unnatural obsession with the disgraced brat-packer.
Bring Me the Head of Rob Lowe was a feature length Media Lounge compendium commissioned by the Raindance Film Festival in 2004. It played on the final night (although we prefer to think of it as 'headlining') at the UGC multiplex on Shaftesbury Avenue - with our name in (very small) lights! |
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VENT 2002
Included more as a curiosity than a demonstration of ability, this short promo has just resurfaced on YouTube and it shows the very beginnings of our visual work with 65daysofstatic, Feedle and Digitonal. Vent was a night hosted by The Electonic Foundation for Sound and Vision (TEFOSAV) and it later inspired us to work on the now much celebrated Dustpunk Nights.
We've all come along was since those early days, but it's nice to see that it's still remembered. Shame about some of the visuals - but hey, we were young and thought that nuclear explosions had never been done before. |
Vent 2002 highlights »
TEFOSAV wiki » |
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