YOUNG freelance film-maker Josh Partridge has been working with the crew making chart-topping Rizzle Kicks’ new music video The video for their new single Lost Generation has been viewed more than half a million times on YouTube and Vevo in the past week.

Mr Partridge, of Pewsham, was one of nearly 100 young people selected from 2,000 hopefuls to gain work experience on the set of the two-day video shoot in London.

The Brighton hip hop duo, Jordan ‘Rizzle’ Stephens and Harley ‘Sylvester’ Alexander-Sule, whose top ten hits include Down With The Trumpets and Mama Do The Hump, are both the same age as Mr Partridge, 21.

Mr Partridge, a freelance filmmaker who also has a Saturday job as an O2 sales advisor in Chippenham, left Abbeyfield School four years ago and completed a degree in creative media practice at Bath Spa University. He shot some of the adverts shown on screens at Glastonbury’s main stage this year.

After sending in a CV to the GoThinkBig initiative, launched by O2 and Bauer Media, he was picked to shadow the first assistant director, James Amos.

The director, Jamie Thraves, has previously worked with Radiohead and Coldplay.

Mr Partridge said: “I was supporting James and Jamie on set and was involved from the location and technical recces, through to the actual shoot. Jordan and Harley were both easy to work with and were a good laugh, which kept the days nice and chilled. Making sure we stuck to schedules and tracking down new locations at the last minute was pretty full on, but that always makes the shoots more interesting.

“It’s cool to see the final edit produced by a larger production company and a world famous director, and just knowing how it was put together”.

View the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL51Tsh6Sdg