Jevon 'Na Hora' (Directors Cut) by Shan Phearon
Promonews - 1st Apr 2021
Shan Phearon's video for London-via-Coventry rapper Jevon addresses this intriguing artist's background, and love of Brazil, through a metaphorical journey.
Shot last October - and here presented in the Director's Cut - it’s a kinetic, gothic opera playing on the idea of ‘current-life-as-the-afterlife'. Na Hora addresses Brazilian post-colonialism and modern day right-wing fascism - replete with Jair Bolsonaro lookalikes - with the artist traversing through stages of Purgatory as well as moments of Heaven and inevitably Hell.
The video is also structured in an innovative way, so that other tracks from Jevon's debut album, intercut with the main track during it's duration.
Phearon comments: “It was enriching and inspiring working with the artist and his team to explore not only Jevon’s complex personal story as well as the difficult history behind Brazilian and Hispanic/Latin Southern American injustice, fusing two narratives - one personal, one social - into one larger analogy.
"I tried to write and design it in a way for the fans to taste a couple of other intriguing moments from his new LP, but all housed within the lead single. So we have song-switches like skits or interludes within the single/video, as opposed to more obvious chronological order, or just epilogue-style like classic ‘90s/'00s rap videos where they would stick another single or album cut excerpt at the end.
"I don’t consider it a 'music film' in the traditional sense, but it could be a progressive delivery mechanism for an artist’s music and stories that I’d like to try more with in future. I also think it adds a surprise-inducing, almost edge-of-seat energy, which services this particular narrative.”
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Promonews - 1st Apr 2021
Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Shan Phearon
- Producer
- Ghandi El-Chamaa
- Production Company
- GF
- Executive Producer
- Sandra Spethmann
- Production Manager
- David Amoah
- 1st AD
- Rosie Owen
Camera
- Director of Photography
- Courtney Bennett
- Focus Puller
- Murat Ersahin
Lighting/Grip
- Gaffer
- Isaac Whittingham
- Grip
- Tom Soltonas
Art
- Art Director
- Sheena Brobbey
Wardrobe
- Wardrobe
- Kashmir Wickham
- Make-up
- Shireen Kadhim
Editorial
- Editor
- Shan Phearon
Grading
- Colourist
- Shan Phearon
Other credits
Motion Specialist / Operator
Steven Santa Cruz (Rest In Peace, 1974
Art Assistants
Sarah Nicole Cottrell, Rema Kahsay, Charlotte Toon
Spark
Jasper Clarkson
Lighting Trainee
Caterina Frigerio
PC/DIT
Joseph Daly
2nd AD
Hollie Murten
Covid Officer
Palma Derzsi
Medic
Laurence Roberts
Octocopter Team
Surface2 Air Media Ltd
PM
David Amoah, Efosa Osaghae
PA
Keifer Nyron-Taylor
Transit
Kez Kaiser
Additional VFX
Pedram Razi
Sound Designer / Engineer
Dan Trachtenberg
Cast
Lilith, Theo 'Godson' Oloyade, Kaylee Jaiy, Taitlynn Jaiy, Ice, Kofi, Kelsi, El Nia‘o Shelton, Gabriano Shelton, Sheldon Golding, Akeen Suleiman, Nora Joseph, Philip Bubb, Stuart Whelan, Paul Hedley
Thanks
Louise Collins Casting, Charlotte Baker, Titus Hajek Moore, ShootBlue.
Promonews - 1st Apr 2021