Taken from Rushes Hypnotists site
New James Promo
Title: “We’re Going To Miss You”
Band: James
Commissioner: Tess Wight at Mercury Records
Production Co: HLA
Director: John Hardwick
Producer: Derrin Schlesinger
Facility Producer: Graham Bird
Telecine: Gary Szabo, Simone Grattarola
Fire artist: Derek Moore
Edit: Andrew Wharton
Air Date: week commencing 5th Dec 1999
Using the services of a hypnotist found in the local Yellow Pages, lead singer Tim Booth is first put under hypnosis and the band then performs “We’re Going to Miss You”, singing, playing instruments, and performing in a state of hypnotic reverie in what appears to be a local community centre.
Director John Hardwick clarifies: “We wanted to reveal a more intimate side to a well known band and felt hypnotic trance was a way to create a vulnerable and poetic performance. We shot it with a documentary approach in a deliberately anonymous location to induce the least promo-like atmosphere possible. Two band members refused to be hypnotised so they are seen observing the process.”
Posted at Rushes by colourists Gary Szabo and Simone Grattarola in Ursa Diamond, edited by Andrew Wharton, and composited by Derek Moore in Fire.
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