South African directs viral Skrillex music video

Egg Films' Terence Neale directed the music video for Ragga Bomb, Skrillex's collaboration with British jungle pioneers Ragga Twins.

Shot in December in Hillbrow, Alex and Johannesburg CBD, the video was released last night and has already been featured everywhere from Pitchfork to Rolling Stone. Ragga Bomb takes you into a post-apocalyptic turf war, complete with trolley-surfing scavengers, glow-in-the-dark dancehall, and a final fight sequence you won't see coming.

The Guardian called it a genuinely great music video that'll probably give George Lucas a hernia and Stereogum said it's visually arresting as all hell. Ragga Bomb has racked up over half a million views in its first 16 hours online.

Terence had been asked to pitch on the music video as a result of his work with Ninja on Die Antwoord's music video for Baby's On Fire. The original brief was completely open; the only words they used were dark and dancey,' laughs producer Rozanne Rocha-Gray. So everything you see is Terence's imagination.

Terence is best known as a top commercials director, but Rozanne admits Ragga Bomb didn't have a commercials budget, so praised the cast and crew who made it possible. It was a real labour of love for everyone involved; they all came to the party to make it happen.

To see more of Terence's work, visit http://www.eggfilms.tv/directors/terence-neale/.

CREDITS:

Production Company - Egg Films

Director - Terence Neale

Executive Producer - Colin Howard

Producer - Rozanne Rocha-Gray

Line Producer - Devi Lazanas

DP - Michael Ragen

Art Direction - Michael Linders + Wendy Fredrikson

Costume Design - Elmi Badenhorst + Richard de Jager + Sandra Smit

Choreographer - David Mathamela

Editor - Evy Katz, Left Post Production

Colourist - Craig Simonetti, Pudding

Visual Effects and Online Supervisor - Jean du Plessis, Blade Works Post Production & BFX

Camera and Grips Equipment - Panavision

Lighting Equipment - Media Film Service

Casting: Kevin Gray

ABOUT EGG FILMS

Ranked number one production house in South Africa for 2013. We've won golds at Cannes, the Clios, Andys, and New York, as well as South Africa's first-ever Grand LIA at London. We do TV ads, branded content, music videos, short films and other things too. For more info, visit www.eggfilms.tv.

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