Favourite Colour: Black - aka Chris Turner - has directed an intense drama for singer-songwriter Jessica Sweetman, featuring Peaky Blinders actor Emmet J Scanlan.

For the rousing indie-pop of Rise Up, Jessica is the woman driving Scanlon's character crazy. She's there, then she disappears like a ghost, then appearing although invisible to Scanlan, observing his increasing trauma. She is his obsession until a climactic steamy encounter on a storm-tossed Sussex beach.

The brief for Rise Up came in the form of a script already written by Jessica and actor Scanlan, after they met at an awards ceremony and got talking about making a video together. Turner's job was to make this script a reality, given the various issues of time, availability, budget and - of course - the good old British weather.

"Originally it was meant to end on a beautiful sunset, but even though there were promising glints of sunshine at the start of our first shoot day, the bleak skies soon started to roll in," he explains. "We had to quickly re-think the ending, resulting in a last-minute improvised final shot which eventually became my favourite of the entire film.

"Shooting the end first meant that we could then alter the earlier part of the story for our second shoot day, creating a moodier, more atmospheric film. Obviously when we were shooting interiors at the end of day two, outside Hastings was enjoying a breathtaking sunset. The type we’d hoped to get the previous evening.

"But ultimately I prefer the more dramatic, windswept final scene we captured. It goes to show that the most important rule of filmmaking is to be 100% prepared and have everything planned out in minute detail, but also be ready to have to trash all of that and make it up as you go along."

The result is a cinematic and emotionally resonant, blending windswept coastal imagery with an intimate, symbolic narrative of struggle and renewal. The evocative visuals to mirror the song’s themes of resilience, vulnerability, and ultimately rising above adversity.