Jessie-May Kitchen, a 17-year-old from the Central Coast, has created an outstanding self-shot and edited video to go with her debut single, 'Coffee Shop', in the vein of Courtney Barnett that scenestr is pumped to premiere today.
"My 'Coffee Shop' video is entirely self-made. I filmed it on my Android phone, edited on a cheap video editor for laptops. I knew I really wanted to make a video, but I had limited resources. So I used what I had.
"I set out to my local coffee shops by public transport to shoot footage, circulating around four different places that suited the vibe I was going for.
"It took around two months, but hard work pays off. I'd buy something to eat or drink at each shop and staff wouldn't ask any questions about what I was doing, as long as I was spending a few bucks.
"Of course there were many other people in the shop; this meant shaking it off pretending I was the only one in the room, using camera angles to hide them from view. I included natural lighting techniques and photography angles intending to create something really natural and arty.
"'Coffee Shop' is a story within itself, so I needed to create a story within a story. I picked the green couch as a motif to reoccur throughout the video. It appears at the beginning verse, throughout the song and finishes with me plonking down on it at the end.
"Each coffee shop appeared in the video through atmospheric footage of furniture, drinks and coffee shop appliances. I used reptition of scenes replaying them towards the end of the song, paying homage to each individual shop used to create the video.
"I played around with lighting, saturation, timing and WOLLA [sic], another month later my video was born."
