Julia Michaels - Issues

“We definitely got what we wanted! Thank you so much for all of your help and hard work. Hope to work together again soon.”

— Julie Vastola, Republic Records

Thankfully the brief from Julia and her label was quite open to interpretation, "either live action, animation or still photos of couples of all kinds (white, black, asian, latino, jewish, muslim, straight, gay, mixed race couples, etc.) in real life relationship situations (kissing hugging, arguing, grocery shopping, etc.).” Director Pedro Chaves came to me with the outline, and the idea to connect the characters and moments by creating a constant linear motion, almost as if you were sliding through the page of a storyboard or comic book.

I shot predominantly over one day in London, at a multitude of locations (with the addition of capturing three separate (and very early) summer sunrises at Primrose Hill), before taking the footage back to our edit suite in Tunbridge Wells, cutting the content and remotely sharing between Pedro in Ghent, Brussels and Republic Records in New York, USA.