Ta-da!
The initial idea came from a self-made video I saw by Francis and the Lights, where Francis had just self-made his video by throwing on the flashlight on his phone and recording his silhouette as he sang the song.
I showed that little thing to Adée, she dug it and we started trying to add to it on her final night in Cardiff before having to leave to head back to Sweden the following morning.
Read MoreOne-shot. Black and White. Slow-motion. That’s the whole thing.
Adée had a rough concept of what she wanted the video to be about; she wanted to talk about her sexuality and how people have just assumed the gaps in her personality that they don’t know about her.
People aren’t just black and white.
Read More“Hey, I have this idea for something I wanna try out at Brighton,”
“Okay, cool!”
That’s pretty much how this video came about.
I’d been thinking about the idea of an EPK (Electronic Press Kit) video being something more experimental than just a self-indulgent trailer. I feel like it should be individual to the artist. Really encapsulate them visually, mentally, and audibly.
Read MoreLast summer, I was working on a documentary in St Albans about the topic of homelessness. It was a pretty eye-opening experience for reasons I expected, and reasons that would never have come to mind. But my favourite part of the summer-long experience, was meeting the people of Cardboard Citizens.
I documented their work over a two-week period with homeless participants as they worked to build a theatre performance for at the end of that fortnight. None of the participants had experience of performing in front of an audience before, so it was interesting watching Terry and Marc cultivate a team mentality in the room, help them push through the nerves of performing on-stage, and design and build the performance’s story from scratch in that time.
Read MoreOne day, last summer, I got a DM from Jade. Out of the blue, she said she really liked the tour stuff I’d been producing for Sarah Darling and was wondering if I’d be up for documenting her performance at Nashville Meets London.
It was hard to say no, when she’d asked so politely. Especially after talking on the phone to her the night before and seeing how easygoing she was about the whole thing.
So, I got out of bed early one morning, after signing a lot of intimidating paperwork from the people of Canary Wharf promising them I wasn’t going to be a moron, and headed in to the event.
Turns out, NML is a pretty big deal - which explained the paperwork.
Read MoreThis whole story starts way back in 2013 when I wrote a short sketch script about a superhero. It was called “ZERO” and was a big metaphor for me trying to make films whilst working to pay off uni debt coming off the graduation buzz of university - big fish, little pond and all that.
It was fun and I made a cool little mask for the character of “Wonderman”, but I just wasn’t satisfied with how I shot it. I’d never shot anything that should make people laugh before - intentionally anyway. So, it just gathered dust and was always something I’d talk to Peter, the main actor, about maybe revisiting someday.
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