I Don't Wanna Fight (Music Video Xtras) Pt.3 (Patreon)
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Thank you so much for your feedback on last weekend's poll guys, it really helps me a lot to improve your experience here. In fact, a comment by Edward Gately reminded me of this pic, this is for you :)
On the previous post about the concepts behind the video for "I Don't Wanna Fight" I shared with you a still of the actual video that never made it to the final version you can watch on Youtube now by clicking here. Something I forgot to mention is that said picture was edited as part of the Listening Companion book for "All Systems Go", but in the end we decided to post Farit's picture instead, giving a subtle hint that there was another cut of the video.
Before we started shooting the video I mentioned we did several camera tests, and today's pics are one of them. This pic is not a video still, it was taken the day before the shooting to see what did or not work on camera. The color palette was one of the options I considered for the video, but never pursued because of time and technical constraints, and the watermarked version has a story of it's own as well:
There was a moment when I considered posting nudes on Twitter (although in a stylized fashion, nothing too gross). I considered doing this to try and focus followers on one single platform and forget about Facebook and other places. But coincidentally a lot of decontextualization and objectification started to happen. Fake profiles with my pics, fake pics, untagged pics, unauthorized copies of the videos on other pages, etc. That made me realize that I wasn't going to achieve my objectives by simply putting the pics there, so I decided not to do that. Instead that was the moment when I started to seriuously consider opening this Patreon.
But this was that pic that never made it. Enjoy!
UPDATE: Check out the director's cut of "I Don't Wanna Fight" here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/i-dont-wanna-cut-46800051