Jorja Smith 'On Your Own' by Rashid Babiker
David Knight - 15th Oct 2018
This superb video for Jorja Smith presents the artist and her song On Your Own inside a beautifully designed picture book, discovered in a young woman's bedroom, that comes to life.
Rashid Babiker brings different visual elements - design, photography, and even cutout animation - that work so well together to elevate not only a delightfully cool image of Jorja Smith but serves to make the song more hypotic, more alluring.
Very good indeed, and on this basis, Rashid Babiker is a real one to watch.
RASHID BABIKER:
"Before Jorja even asked me to come up with a concept for On Your Own, as a thought experiment I was imagining books, the hardback clothbound ones, being retrofitted into interactive photobooks, or video books sometime in the future when print is in the terminal stages of obsolescence. I imagined them to be like those 1940’s gramophones that bare the Dolby digital insignia and have Bluetooth connectivity but aren’t gramophones; the ones that visitors mistake for vinyl players, the same visitors that mistake you for being cold-hearted enough to correct them.
"To stage it in a way fitting for the song I channelled imagined-nostalgia from the perspective of a girl, a fan of Jorja, who’s living in an intentionally anachronistic world where these videobooks exist and cassettes are the new, old vinyl of today. Even with the nondescript time period, from the year markings in the book you can determine the book is from Jorja’s “lost & found” period and the world is set a bit further into the future.
"The whole thing works as a music video by having a great song firstly, Jorja always makes it easy in that respect, interesting content on the pages (just like a good book), thematic parallels to the lyrics, and choreographed page turns that act as cuts. But then it’s a real jigsaw puzzle piecing everything together!”
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Production/Creative
- Director
- Rashid Babiker
- Producer
- Martha McGuirk
- Producer
- Nick Hayes
- Production Company
- Nuuksio Films
- 1st AD
- Bryony James
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Oliver Ford
- Focus Puller
- Sam Riley
- 2nd AC
- Francis Boyter
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- PB
Art
- Art Director
- Chloe Brady
Wardrobe
- Hair
- Zateesha Barbour
- Make-up
- Carol Lopez Reid
- Wardrobe
- Leah Abbott
Casting
- Lead actor
- Savannah Acquah
Editorial
- Editor
- Rashid Babiker
Grading
- Colourist
- Toby Tomkins
- Colour grade company
- C
VFX
- Post production company
- Temple Caché
- Post Producer
- Franky Chadwick
Commission
- Commissioner
- Zubin Irani
- Label
- FAMM
Other credits
Production Assist
Pier Boble-Berry
Runners
Alex Tawney, Akay Delano, Emma Spiers
Sparks
Leon Pyszora, James Leech,
Set Construction
James Simmons
Art Assist
Nick Tolladay
MU Assist
Mario Brooksbank
Nail Technician
Izabelle Bellamy
PU Day 1st AC
Richard Savage
PU Day Camera Trainee
Andi Thompson
PU Day Gaffer
Will Pope
PU Day Prod Design
Paulina Rzeszowska
PU Day HMU
Mandana Mirzaii
VFX Supervisor
Daniel Hawkins
Casting
Collins Casting
David Knight - 15th Oct 2018