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JTOWN - GUNS & ROSES

COUNTRY: GHANA
DIRECTOR: JONATHAN 'JOSH' CLARKE

ART DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
: NANA KOFI ASIHENE
DOP: JONATHAN 'JOSH' CLARKE

STYLIST: JTOWN
ALL POST PRODUCTION: JONATHAN 'JOSH' CLARKE

PRODUCTION DATE: APRIL 2010

Ghana, always wanted to work with Naija's neighbours. In 2008 I was directing a show I created Emcee Africa that took me all over Africa. The first place we ended up in was Ghana, and JTown knocked out all the competition to take the throne as king emcee of Ghana. Then the finals are held in South Africa and we spent a bit of time together. I later went on to direct Naeto C's Kini Big Deal. The following year I directed Emcee Africa 2, I bumped into JTown again in Ghana. Leter that year he contacted me to work on a video.

2009 was a busy year for me and logistically we both couldn't find time to make a video. 2010 comes around and I'm asked By Channel O to shoot a TV special for them on the Ghana 2010 Music Awards. I let JTown know that I'm gona be in the country and we could have a day free to shoot the video after the awards. JTown called up a talented art director and up and coming Ghanain Music Video Director Nana Kofi Asihene and between them they manged to put the logistics and equipment together in Ghana. We filmed the video on the sunday after the awards, I almost melted it was so hot. The humidity in Ghana is insane, not used to it all. We filmed inside an empty warehouse with no airflow, even JTown was sweating thru his make up. We couldn't avoid the sweat so it become a part of the treatment (the sweat on the lens was added in post). The treatment was simple, the track had rock elements and was called guns & roses, so I wanted to do a Rock Hip Hop video.