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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

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  • Hip Hop
  • Brazil

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Shan Phearon
Producer
Ghandi El-Chamaa
Production Company
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

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