Peppered with some creative use of cigarette smoke and shot at a cool easy pace, a group of teens get together for some fun in Emile Rafael’s promo for Saturday, Monday’s Headshake. 

“The video focuses on a group of youngsters hanging out and listening to music. All of them together in this moment are happy despite their turbulent lives and the pains of growing up” explains Emile.

“The artist and the label wanted gritty teenagers at a party, and whilst there are many effective promos that feature the same thing, I thought in this video I could take it a bit further and concentrate on the teens themselves and form portraits around them.

I’ve always been fascinated by how much of a story a still portrait can tell about someone. I wanted a video that not only reminiscences about how cool it is to be a teenager at a party, but also that period of growing up and the awkward romance of that age.

“The portraits really had to be poignant, so we referenced a lot of award winning photographs especially in the street photography”.

Saturday, Monday ft. Julia Spada
Headshake (Despotz)
Director: Emile Rafael
Director of Photography: Charlie Herranz
Produced by: Corin Taylor, Michael Cimpher
Production Co: 4am/Duke Films
Production Manager: Antonio Austoni
Editor: Chris Roebuck @ Speade
Post Producer: Ella Richards @ Speade
Production Designer: Paula Oropeza
Art Directors: Nina Wigfall, Eleanor Sawbridge Burton
Stylist: Ali Carman
Colorist: Luke Morrison @ The Mill
Telecine Producers: Niamh McGregor, Tom Manton @ The Mill
Make-up: Rita Saraco
Electrician: Drew Wright
DIT: Jose Alberto Cerrillo Soto
Commissioners: Carl-Marcus Gidlöf and Ömer Akay
Cast:
Cleopatra Wood, Lubamba Ruth Nzinga, Mel Opacic, Daisy Coco, Amari Robinson, Jay Tindale.
Thank you: Kelly Amundsen, Barnaby Laws @ Panalux, Agis Louka @ Concept Cameras, Luke Williams, Chris Jacob, Nathaniel Pearn, Martyn Thomas, Tanya Tolmasoff, Valerie & Geoff Wigfall.