Vincent Haycock of Park Pictures directed this video for U2’s emotional new single “Song for Someone.” The music clip stars Woody Harrelson as an inmate set free after a lengthy prison sentence.
Harrelson is not a hardened convict but one whose vulnerability is evident as he faces the change that freedom presents, including reuniting with his daughter whom he hadn’t seen since she was a tot. Portraying her is Harrelson’s real-life daughter, Zoe Harrelson.
The video was shot on location in California in two days by DP Steve Annis, with director Haycock also serving as editor. Some of the extras Haycock cast for the prison setting are former prison guards.
Credits
Artist/Client U2 Production Park Pictures Vincent Haycock, director/editor; Jackie Kelman Bisbee, Mary Ann Marino, Paul McKee, Pete Vitale, executive producers; Pete Vitale, line producer; Alex Fisch, supervising producer; Jesse Peters, associate producer (for Maverick); Steve Annis, DP; Jay Hougaard, production designer Nic Kelley, art director. Postproduction Ntropic Arnold Ramm, colorist; Jordan Freedman, producer. Audio Lime Studios Tom Paolantonio, sound designer; Scott Cedilla, sound mastering. Casting Richard Mento, casting director.
The 2024 Christmas ad from John Lewis department stores has arrived. This year’s much anticipated TV commercial, continuing the Xmas tradition of John Lewis, is the two-minute “The Gifting Hour" created by Saatchi & Saatchi UK and directed by Francois Rousselet via production house Riff Raff.
In the ad, the heroine, Sally, has left it a little late to find the right gift for her sister this year and races into a John Lewis store at closing time. Falling through a rack of dresses, she enters a fantastical world. We first see her stumbling out of the wardrobe in the attic of her childhood home and from here we are taken on a whimsical journey through her memories as she searches for the ultimate present, against the clock.
Returning to the store and back to reality she has found the perfect gift, ready and wrapped. Sally then heads outside and has a special moment with her sister who will be the gift’s recipient. As they walk away we see her sister reflected in the John Lewis window as the child from her memories.
