Jacuzzi Films deliver their fifth project for Enrique Iglesias with this montage of footage taken from his world tour.
Bolstered by entertaining clips that had been filmed in Iglesias’ downtime, the team set about crafting a piece that would reflect the spirit of the track.
A few celebrity cameos made their way into the cut, including the star of the Hangover movies Ken Jeong.
Jacuzzi Films recently shot their new third video for Enrique Iglesias. With direction by Evan Winter the team pulled off a simple and beautiful one take video unlike anything the Spanish singer had ever done before.
Jacuzzi Films offers a sci-fi take on exotic dance in this futurology-fuelled video for Enrique’s new song ‘Dirty Dancer’.
The video was shot across 3 days in L.A. and N.Y by the team behind ‘Tonight (I’m loving you)’ including Commissioner Ross Anderson, Executive Producer Kasra Pezeshki, and Creative Director/Producer Yasha Malekzad. This time, the cinematographer was legendary Thomas Kloss who DP’d Lady Gaga’s ‘Bad Romance’ and ‘Conan the Barbarian (2011)’
It features ‘live’ CCTV birds which capture cybernetic pole dancers streamed into Enrique’s private room, all entirely controlled by his nano-tech remote control implant. This time the big names to join Enrique in this augmented reality based video are Usher and Lil Wayne.
Dirty Dancer has already generated over twice the amount of youtube views that our last Enrique video achieved in the same period of time and has been very well received by his fans. The video has been banned on daytime TV due to its mildly sexualised content.
A quick last minute decision to shoot a performance based video for Jodie Connor by Yasha Malekzad and Luke Biggins.
Jodie was a lovely and extremely pleasant artist to work with. And tinchy was humble, easygoing and very professional… as always.
And the video has had over 1mln views on youtube already! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avd-ME0sFrs
The following video is parental advisory and may offend some people.
Yasha Malekzad & Kasra Pezeshki of Jacuzzi Films, have just released a controversial promo for Enrique Iglesias’s new single “Tonight”.
A lot of effort went into convincing Enrique Iglesias to have sex in the toilet of a night club for his new raunchy video “Tonight”. The video was produced and directed by Jacuzzi Films, a boutique production company and film studio complex that launched in London earlier in 2010.
Featuring the rapper Ludacris and shot in various locations between Los Angeles and Mexico, this opulent video entices viewers into a world of decadent fantasy; filled with voyeurism, speedboats, poker celebs, private jets, and dangerous liaisons.
Co-directors BBGun & Parris were intentionally selected in order to capture a classy contrast between the video’s sexy, glamorous and cinematic elements. Explicit yet tastefully shot, the video exposes an edgy side to an international superstar.
Jacuzzi Films went to town with this no-expense-spared music video that shocked, spiced up, outraged and probably turned on over 50 international news websites in its first 48hours of release. The video was shot on 35mm film, featuring a rather hard-core cast and crew, and involved the producer having to fly and land a small propeller plane from Mexico to Los Angeles in order to smuggle the film rolls back (while the drunken pilot took a nap – no, really it’s true).
Last week saw the release of ‘Go Hard’, one of a series of Music Videos completed by Jacuzzi for the young artist, Fugative. The track and the video features the “King of Grime” Wiley and the feisty Mz. Bratt, and is already setting off fireworks with almost half a million views!
Continuing our close relationship with the Fugative camp this week we also shot a music videos for the young artist feat the singer/songwriter sensation Ed Sheeran and UK Legend Sway. Below is a behind the scenes to the Fugative Music Video ‘Home’ feat Sway & Ed Sheeran filmed by our friends at Link Up TV.
The latest video by Director Parris is for Outkast’s Big Boi feat Yelawolf entitled ‘You Ain’t No DJ.’ Shot stateside on one very hot day Big Boi calls out all the fake DJ’s out there in this bold video.
Jacuzzi returned this week from a trip to Spain where we shot two Music Promos. The second of these was for Polydor’s 2010 newcomer artist Alex Gardner. The video for the single ‘Feeling Fine’ was set in the Almeria desert and a luxury villa near Marbella. Despite the temperature reaching over 40 degrees, only a few of the crew members got burnt limbs and our biggest worry was that Alex was going to change colour throughout the narrative of the video. Directed by Luke Biggins and DP’d by Marcus Domleo the video beautifully captured the epic landscapes of southern Spain, which were further complimented by Alex’s brilliant performance.
We’ve also seen the release of BYOB’s second music video entitled ‘Peaches.’ Shot in Marbella a day before shooting Alex Gardner. The Jacuzzi team spent some time in the sun producing this fun, light hearted promo. Directed by Luke Biggins, we see artist BYOB on a beautiful sunny beach surrounded by beautiful women and getting into a wee bit of trouble with an overly sized boyfriend. The track is being released on Skint Records.
Director Parris seems to be every Rappers favourite director at present, building on his impressive roster of videos with ‘BMF’ for Hip Hop heavy weights Rick Ross and Styles P. With a star studded line up of cameos including Diddy and Fat Joe this video is already taking over web and getting heavy rotation on music channels. The video was shot in Miami over a couple of days. The song is due to be released on Island Def Jam Music Group.
Shot on a cold day and night in New York, Director Parris made the new video for Fat Joe and Trey Songz look warm and drenched in class. The track ‘If It Ain’t About The Money’ is to be released on Koch Records. Shot on a mixture of two Red MX’s and a Canon 7D, Jacuzzi DOP Matt Workman attached his signature beauty look, and Parris is already lining up the next Fat Joe video!
Updates: Both of these videos have had over 1mln views each on youtube!
This week sees the release of the latest release by Fugative, with his track ‘Bad Girl’ which is to be released on July 25th. This is the fourth video Jacuzzi has completed for the young artist, and despite some questionable weather, it definitely lives up to the look that Dir. Luke Biggins was hoping to achieve. The track has been playing on the radio stations this week, so watch out for the video on the music channels.
Luke Biggins also directed Fugative music video ‘Crush.’ We shot the video in a fairground that we actually had made, just for us, in Essex. Shooting over night in the middle of May had a everyone a bit worried that we were going to end up very wet, but fortunately the rain held off and we ended up with a great summery, fun looking video! Already the video has been play-listed on all major music channels, and was VIP track of the week. You can view the video here:
Once again Jacuzzi Director Parris and Jacuzzi DOP Matt Workman team up for another Music Promo. This time for Hip Hop heavy weight Fat Joe and featuring multi-platinum selling artists Young Jeezy and Diddy for the the track ‘Ha Ha (Slow Down.)’ Our favourite shot of this video has to be Diddy standing on the bonnet of a Rolls Royce Phantom as it drives under the New York bridge, it doesn’t get anymore hip hop than that.
Luke Biggins’ D Boy remix video for Sef ‘Hero’ has been nominated for a UK Asian Music Award! Featuring a host of Asian music stars, the club video was shot almost 8 months ago with very positive reviews – and now in line for critical acclaim! The Awards ceremony is on 11th March 2010, and we will make an announcement of the result. Congratulations to the artists and a job well done by the production team!
Almost there! Jacuzzi Films’ new studio in West London (Park Royal) is almost open for business. After moving into the new premises in late 2009, we started a complete overhaul of our space, installing a large three-sided infinity cove, kitting out a make-up room and green-rooms and building office space for our directors and post-production. So far we have been helped by so many friends, colleagues and associates – too many to name, but a tremendous thank-you for all of you. The project is still a few weeks from completion, but once finished, Jacuzzi will have a new home with excellent filming facilities and one of the bigger infinity coves in West London. We are eagerly awaiting completion and will post the final pictures. Until then, we attach shots of the work to date.
Jacuzzi director, Parris has been busy. He has just wrapped up the new Diddy feat Rick Ross video shot in Miami, and his work is going from strength to strength. Check out his showreel in the Directors’ Showreel section of our website.
Shot on a shoestring budget, Devlin’s new video ‘Giant’, produced in the freestyle style of ’8Mile’, is now officially out and gaining lots of media attention. Production involved an enormous cast of extras - thanks to all for participating and keeping things discrete: the shoot was completed much smoother than could have been expected for such a club shoot! Updated: OVER 1 MILLION VIEWS ALREADY – Devlin is now signed off the back of this video!
This month, we also had the pleasure of shooting a Music Promo for Ruff Sqwad’s very own Rapid. Rapid features on Tinchy Stryder’s new album ‘Catch 22,’ which reached number 2 in the UK album charts and is an acclaimed producer and rapper in his own right. The video is jam packed with action, as we see our artist hunted down by a pair of secret agents trying to stop the release of his new single. It involves high speed car chases, a bike chase and a whole lot of running.
A big congratulations goes out to multi-platinum selling Nigerian Artist 2Face Idibia, who won ‘Best R’n'B’ with his video ‘Enter The Place’ at this years MTV Africa Music Awards beating Beyonce and Akon. Jacuzzi Films shot the video last year under the superb direction of Luke Biggins and had great fun in the process. The video was also nominated for another 3 MAMA awards.