My name is Jonathan Entwistle. I'm a director who is interested in telling stories; real, simple, everyday stories. I want my films to reflect the people and places that I saw when I was growing up and all of the contrasts I have encountered since.

I’ve been really busy recently, mostly working on the promos I mentioned in the last post. How come the busier you are the busier you seem to get. Every new project I do I always meet someone to go on to the next one with.

I have just completed the video for A.Human – the track is called ‘Bring Me The Head Of A Human’ and we did indeed build the majority of the set out of cardboard!! We did it in three days and then shot the whole video on one day using the Canon 5D.

Here are some stills. As soon as the video is available for release I’ll get it up on Vimeo and you can see how this set really comes to life.

We shot the whole thing in a warehouse space in Hackney, East London. They had mountains of cardboard in a back room and we made a deal with them – they let us use the space for a week and we used and threw away all of their cardboard afterwards!! However, the boat was saved :-)

It was a great experience – It was quite mad to work so fast, but in the end it worked really well – The video is weird… It’s not for a single release, but a kind of one of special for the two bands to get together. A.Human and Gaggle (a 23 piece, all girl indie choir!!).

The idea started out as documentation of a live show. A bit like ‘Stop Making Sense’ by Talking Heads. We were going to feature A.Human and Gaggle all inside a little stage that was moving as they played – essentially a theatrical gig! But due to budget and various other restrictions we ended up doing it as a standard promo…. however – this one goes from a standard ‘band playing instruments in a cool space’ to this mad theatre with mechanical sea, sirens on the shore of a dark and craggy island, a Viking Ship (!!) & a group of yellow waterproof clad fishermen!

As soon as I can I will post the film.

I am currently working on 2 promos for London-based bands AHuman & KASMS. Both of them are pretty complicated!! Which is not really my style, but I’m going to experiment with some mad ideas. The main focus for the shoots is creating as much as we can manually, using people power and hand-crafted, in-camera effects. I want to try and avoid using After Effects.

The AHuman shoot, which I will be requiring some help with (for those who are in London, second weekend of July) involves many stagehands building a ‘child-like’ cardboard theatre complete with the hull of a ship and moving sea!! Yes, all made from cardboard.

The KASMS short will be darker and harder – not 100% sure how we’re going to do it, but I think it will involve monsters, hundreds of extras and flash guns…. in a dark disused factory in Hackney!

Good Luck, you’re going to need it.