WE'RE GOING TO MISS YOU - VIDEO DETAILS

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.