Collide’s Mike Southworth is proud to be part of another Western Canadian Music Award winning project. Mike produced, engineered and mixed Dawn Pemberton’s new album “Say Somethin’” which was the winner of the 2015 WCMA for Urban Album of the Year. Check out Dawn and her great new album here: http://dawnpemberton.ca/
We are so excited to have 4 music videos in the longlist for this year’s Prism Prize! The Prism Prize is a national, juried award established to recognize the artistry of the modern music video in Canada. Thanks to MuchFACT TELUS Public Records and FACTOR for supporting the art of music videos! Also thanks to all …
We’re very proud to accept the Music Video of the Year award at the WCMA Awards for The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer ‘Shake It’! Sharing in this award with Collide and director Mike Southworth are the amazing cast and crew. We couldn’t have done it without you! This video was made possible by the Public …
This video was an amazing learning experience! Our first deep dive into a fully VFX/CGI background world, the video took almost 2 weeks to edit but we’re so proud of the result! Stay tuned for some cool BTS stuff coming in the near future.
I’ve always been a fan of Grease so when I heard Miss Quincy’s song ‘Talkin Trash’ and it’s 50s do-wop style production, I knew exactly what I wanted to do for a video. With the help of a great crew, some handmade greasers and preps costumes (Q poodle skirts & letter sweaters!) and a troupe …
This video almost killed us! All hand drawn with chalk on 2 24ft x 12ft custom built chalkboards, the video took almost 1hr per second to create! We’re really happy with the final result though. :)
The first video released from February’s Collide Music Video Marathon at our pop-up soundstage! From Eliza’s brand new album, ‘Paradigm’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN0MrBTrDYw&hd=1 Produced, Directed and Edited by Mike Southworth Director of Photography: Byron Kopman Assistant Director: Adam PW Smith Set/Prop Construction: Adam Thomas, Hilary Grist & Mike Southworth 1st AC: Kelvin Wong Grip/LX Swing: Brooks Robinson, …
Ten months ago I signed up for the federal Liberal party of Canada’s email list. I was interested in Justin Trudeau and was hoping that he might be a good candidate to supersede Stephen Harper in the next federal election. I didn’t really know much about Trudeau other than that he was Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s …
‘February 12th, 1910. It was the biggest snowfall on record in New York State, but the headline that ran in all the papers the next day wasn’t about the weather, it was about me; the first invisible baby…’ So begins Vancouver art-pop singer-songwriter Hilary Grist’s newest adventurous music video. This time incorporating elements of classic …
I have been known to come up with crazy ideas for videos… and then try to execute them with minimal budget. It’s something I do to myself to keep things entertaining. ;) This video for Ellen Doty’s song ‘That’s Love’ was no exception. I had a vision of the Ellen singing straight at camera while …
Another great TV placement from Hilary Grist’s upcoming album ‘Tomorrow is a Chance to Start Over’. CBC’s Arctic Air will be using Hilary’s song ‘Say Goodnight’ in their next episode. Tune in at 9pm/9:30pmNT – Wed, Jan 30th or watch episode 204 (called ‘Stormy Weather’) afterwards here.
THE FINAL RESULT It was a lot of work and calculation but the final product worked out better than I’d even hoped! Here’s the completed video. Read below it if you’re curious about all the nitty gritty details of how we took this video from start to finish. Enjoy! THE CONCEPT I always try to …
After over 40,000 photographs, 4 days and 11 nights of shooting we’re happy to release the new music video for Hilary Grist’s charming ditty ‘A Little While’. The song has a old fashioned, music box sound to it and the lyrical theme is ‘a little while, that’s all we really have’ so I thought a …
Another great placement for a Hilary Grist song. This one, titled ‘Tomorrow is a Chance to Start Over’, is from Hilary’s soon to be released album of original lullabyes produced/recorded by Collide’s Mike Southworth and was seen on the hugely popular NBC TV show ‘Grimm’. The song had a great 2:30 minute feature during a …
This was definitely the craziest concept I’ve come up with, so far! Getting this 4 minute video from idea to finished product required: a) Dominique Fricot learning the song backwards b) constructing a set from scratch in a field in Langley c) an eccentric fire FX co-ordinator with a penchant for pyro d) 6 tanks …
We just finished a beautiful new music video for singer/songwriter Kristina Emmott. Shot in Burnaby’s Deer Lake Park, the video stars Kristina and her 6 year old cousin Taila. Directed/Edited by Mike Southworth and filmed by Toby Gorman and Mike Southworth.