Orla Gartland 'Pretending' by Rosie Brear
Promonews - 11th Nov 2020
Producer Rosie Brear makes a notable directing debut for Irish singer-songwriter Orla Gartland, dramatizing the artist's party-fatigue from the perspective of her reflection in the mirror.
The song Pretending is about exactly that - the exhausting business of putting on a front, not being entirely yourself, when conversing with strangers. Brear focusses on the moment when Gartland is taking time out at a fancy dress party in the bathroom, looking at herself in the mirror - which becomes the portal of all the action, as other partygoers continually invade the space.
It's an entertaining and compelling device to deliver the narrative arc, and the message of the song. Brear, producer of videos for Declan McKenna, Sports Team, Joesef, and others this year - and also this one - shows she is amply capable of doing the directing thing too.
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Promonews - 11th Nov 2020
Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Rosie Brear
- Producer
- Rosie Brear
- Production Company
- S
- Executive Producer
- Miles Nathan
- 1st AD
- Fleur Bell-Hendriks
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Alistair Little
- Focus Puller
- Anil Duru
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Dave Allen
Art
- Art Director
- Greta Isaac
Wardrobe
- Wardrobe
- Suzie Walsh
- Make-up
- Shamirah Sairally
Editorial
- Editor
- Hasani Franke
- Editing company
- Work Editorial
Grading
- Colourist
- Myles Bevan
- Colour grade company
- Times Based Arts
VFX
Other credits
Desk Op
George Jenkins
PA
Ashley Whyte
BTS
Olivia Sainsot
Art Dept Assist
Shoshana Kessler, Jonty Freeman
Studio
No Such Thing Studios
Cast
Alexandra Sinclair, Venice Van Someren, Lucy Walker Evans, Joe Usher, James Jip, Chiara Lari
Promonews - 11th Nov 2020