For The Creators Podcast

On Episode 58 of the show we go ‘Behind The Lense’ with the amazingly talented filmmaker, photographer and creative director @daliadias @shotbydaliadias 

Throughout the episode we discussed her life’s journey to date. From her humble beginnings in Tottenham and public school in Nigeria, to working with some of the biggest artists and brands in the world, likes @iamcardib @stormzy @migos@chrisbrownofficial @jdofficial and many more. We also discussed what it’s like to be a female in a male dominated industry and impact that she would like to make with her work.

Dalia dias is a photographer, filmmaker and creative director working in the music and fashion industries. Born and raised by Nigerian and Egyptian parents in London, Dalia uses her African heritage as a source of inspiration in her work and creations. Dalia has worked with well-known international music acts such as Drake, Cardi b, Migos, Quavo, Rich the Kid, Chris Brown, Stormzy, Wizkid, Davido and more. Dalia’s photography work also focuses on fashion and femininity, and has been published in various publications including Glamour, Elle, New African Woman, and Black Hair Magazine.

Links:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shotbydaliadias

Stormzy - Big For Your Boots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFOErVWlsxg

City Girls feat Cardi B - Twerk :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QryoOF5jEbc

Wizkid & Drake - Come Closer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqW18C4plZ8

Show notes:

1 - Starting out in Nigerian boarding school

7 mins - How Dalia got into Photography and Creative Media

9 - Getting into film-making and fashion

10 - Dalias first music videos. Noticing artists not realising the whole vision

11 - Moving full creative direction

12 - Self learning 

13 - The similarities between photography and film

15 - How Dalia determined she had good instincts, defining her taste

18 - Why her ‘big break’ is still pending

20 - Recording Stormzy’s ‘Big for your boots’

21 - Working with Drake and Chris Brown 

22 - Taking herself to America on a whim. Taking the opportunity

‘if you have plan or a goal you need to just go ahead and do it’

24 - Having Multiple credits on a project

26 - ‘if im not feeling it, i’m not doing it’

27 - Working with short deadlines

30 - How visuals can make or break a record

31 - Why certain songs need visuals to really impact

32 - How cameos work in music videos

35 - Artists trusting you more, the more you work with them

36 - How big do production crews get?

39 - What does a video producer do?

40 - How long are video shoots in UK vs US?

41 - Changing ideas on the fly, on the shoot. 

43 - What is post production like?

45 - Communicating an idea, utlising photos and references

47 - Dalia’s favourite video of all time

48 - Do videos have the same worth as they did in the 90s?

49 - Throwaway culture

50 - Millions of views = success?

51 - Making your own accounts, not giving away your content and growing your own audience

52 - The importance of having your own platform

53 - Being judged on the amount of views

54 - Buying ‘cute’, Dalia moving away from the ‘video girl’

55 - Standing for something

56 - Videos translating into Tours

57 - Providing a holistic package, creative direction through and through

58 - Everyone needs to bring their A game to the table

59 - The difference between US & UK quality in music videos

1.00 - The european influence on America

1.02 - The perception of doing well, because you’re working in America

1.03 - What inspires Dalia? Being a bigger fan of Documentarys than Movies

1.04 - Being inspired by fashion ’Music videos are cute, compared to films’

1.05 - What its like being a female creator working with male rappers

1.06 - Gaining confidence by going the extra mile

1.07 - What advice would Dalia give herself at 16 years old?

1.08 - Find your team, network sideways and remain humble. Build a team and assist

1.11 - Take yourself out of your comfort zone and go and grab it with your hands

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We're back this week for another check in with whats happening in the world of creativity! Today we discuss if we can we separate the Art from the Artist in light of heavy allegations towards artists such as Michael Jackson and R Kelly. We also discuss Solange's new album and film, Kimora Lee Simmons and the return of Baby Phat, Idris Elba's new Netflix Comedy & Colourism in Hollywood in light of Will Smiths role playing Serena and Venus Williams father in the film King Richard

Links:

Solange Releases When I Get Home Short Film- https://www.spin.com/2019/03/solange-when-i-get-home-film-watch/

Separating the art from the artist - https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/separating-the-art-from-the-artist-sz6lqrpd0

Kimora Lee Simmons bringing back Baby Phat - https://theglowup.theroot.com/boss-moves-kimora-lee-simmons-announces-the-reacquisit-1833175356

Turn Up Charlie - https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80124723

WHERE FILMMAKERS & WRITERS MEET - https://blcklst.com/

Colourism in Hollywood - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47455368

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80200047

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At the end of last year we sat down with Ibrahim Kamara and Jide Adetunji, the founders of GUAP Magazine to discuss how they started the youth culture platform and worlds first video magazine.

This conversation was really fun to record and we covered everything from failing businesses, opening doors to winning ventures, turning your L's into Lessons and into Ws, betting on emerging talent, learning new skills and the power of collaboration.

Please enjoy & let us know what you think by leaving a review!

Links:

http://www.guap.co.uk

https://twitter.com/IbrahimKamara_

instagram.com/jmxney_

Show notes:

- being mixed up with another creative

- How the founders met

- Starting traditional African party events with a mastermind investment group at Uni

- That event being a ‘Low’ and a Learning point

- What is GUAP?

- How does a video magazine work?

- How GUAP was born out of their events company failure

- Great Understanding and Power

- Launching GUAP magazine and creating revenue streams

- Switching from being money lead, to being value lead

- What goes into the production of the magazine?

- What goes into creating a quarterly magazine

- Putting on an event per month

- Curating a Black History Month event for the London Mayor

- Starting the first GUAP office

- Ibrahim’s background in Music

- Getting guests and contributors, utilising Ibrahims background in music

- Betting on upcoming talent 

- Putting your best work out and letting it have a life on its own

- Profiling emerging creatives doing big things. Selecting a broad range of creatives for their 13th edition, the Creative G List

- Garnering REAL Feedback and why that's better than getting compliments

- Highlighting female creatives

- Giving H.E.R, The Slumflower their first magazine covers

- Network sideways, have faith in your peers

- GUAP Parties, spotlighting talent before they blow

- Having a GUAP Festival one day

- Being careful as a creative, how things can be difficult

- Building a brand based on Purpose

- Forget Non Disclosure Agreements and patents! 

- Advice for creatives, learning skills 

- What advice would the founders give themselves at age 16?

- Thoughts on marriage and relationships, the power of having a supportive partner

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On the latest ‘Creativity x Culture’ episode of our show, we discuss the seemingly blurred lines between pop culture and creativity

Today we sit down with Mary-Alice Stack, Chief Executive of Creative United

Creative United is an entrepreneurial community interest company committed to supporting the growth and development of the arts and creative industries.

Their vision is for artists, creative enterprises and cultural organisations to have access to the skills, advice and services they need to achieve their ambitions for growth and impact within their communities.

Mary-Alice studied at Falmouth School of Art and at the Courtauld Institute with her background and professional expertise is firmly rooted in the visual arts. However, she is also passionate about theatre and poetry having spent many years working with small theatre companies, both as an actor and director.

This conversation is all about the balance between being a creative and being a business person. Its a very difficult dance for most creatives but one we must do to succeed. 

Mary-Alice gives many tips on how to approach your creativity as a business, how to make a living while making your art and why making an actionable plan to ensure you can continue to create and thrive. In short, being a struggling artist is romanticised but isn't necessary!

We think you will get a lot of take away's from today's episode, for those ready to make a living from your art, get your notepad out!

Please enjoy our sit down with Mary-Alice Stack

Links:

https://creativeunited.org.uk/

https://twitter.com/CreativeUtdUK

https://twitter.com/Stack_says

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Thanks for joining us for another episode of Creativity x Culture. For Season 2 we have changed the format of what used to be our Spotlight episodes, so that our listeners could get to know us a little bit better and hear our views on the topics that are trendy right now.

On this particular episode we discussed the announcement earlier this week, that Spotify has acquired Gimlet Media and Anchor in a deal that is rumoured to be worth $230m. We also discussed the 2019 Grammy nominations, the impact that globalisation has bad on pop music and how the EDM DJ, Marshmello’s (aka Christopher Comstack) concert in Fortnite last Saturday was a massive success, reportedly attracting more than 10 million concurrent players to the 10-minute event.

We are having so much fun recording these episodes and we hope that you are enjoying them too. In the meantime, please remember to SUBSCRIBE, REVIEW, RECOMMEND & SHARE!

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We had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with Naroop of @amitandnaroop. Amit and Naroop are advertising, portrait and celebrity photographers from London.

Amit and Naroop have achieved a great deal in a very short time. In the first stage of their career they took the world of urban music by storm. They are the photographers (and often video directors) of choice for many of the genre’s biggest stars and their client list includes @officialWretch32, @Tiniegram, @TinchyStryder and @AlexandraBurke.

Now that they have broadened their horizons, they are still passionate about music but their work has expanded to embrace advertising and publishing (they are official photographers of @guardian @shortlistmagazine), as well as actors, comedians and sportsmen, all interpreted with their characteristic passion and intense visual style.

Their personal work also includes being the authors of the book #TurbansandTales, creative directors and photographers of ‘Singh’ - a series of portraits of Sikh men that celebrate the Sikh look of turban and beard and the list goes on.

https://www.amitandnaroop.com/

Buy the book Turbans and Tales! - https://amzn.to/2HQip1s

5 mins

- Early life and School

- Visiting the national portrait gallery, 

- Dad losing millions and becoming a cab driver

- Demonstrating humility, lessons learned

- His brother Jay Sean and him being supported by parents & family

- Cousins parents invested to start their company

- Receiving feedback, being nice to work with

- Maintaining and building relationships

- ‘Before you build your business, build you’

- Being nice, confident

- Doing public speaking to get over the fear of running a set

25 mins

- Starting a shoot with Amit ‘shall we just do this together?

- moving into studio

- getting into film

- Directing music videos Tinchy Stryder, Taio Cruz, Ms Dynamite

- Diving in and getting stuck in

33 mins

- getting more lighting

- building studio

38 mins

- Burning your boats

- Feeling the pressure to make your dreams come true

"Its amazing what you can achieve when you don’t care who gets the credit"

40 mins

- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spike-What-are-You-Great/dp/1911498525

- Working with Amit

- Going through tough times and come through the other end

43

- Talking about their work, bold, bright, vivid

- your work and your style has to feel natural to you, if it doesn't, don’t do it

46

- Your approach and how you work

- The industry needs your approach

- Don't expect the make up artist to go the extra mile if you don’t make people feel appreciated

- Always make everyone feel good

48

- Shortlist

- Shooting Ricky Gervais

53

- The Sikh project

- Ad agencies don’t look at what you have been commissioned. You need to do personal work

- How can we display our culture in a clever way?

- Why are people growing these beards? Sikh men have been doing this for 100s of years

- lets shoot these men in our studios

- Facebook page exploded!

- BBC world news, photos of sikh men

58

- Getting crowdfunded by the community

- Raising £12k after a Huffpost feature

1hr

- Wanted to stand out with our name

- Being bold and being brave

1hr 2

- Winners are the people that lose the most

- jar full of change, scraping together the money

- Keeping a positive demeanour

- Losing 60-70's on abstract art

- No means “New Opportunity”

1hr 6

- You have to pay the cost

1hr 8

- Work on you, make sure you’re where you need to be mentally

- Liquid gold needs to be in a cast needs to be made so when the success comes we can deal with it. You \

- Be a nice person, do the hard work in private

- Talent is important but hard work trumps talent, put in the hours. 

- Commit to your craft, practice, be resourceful

- Find yourself a mentor, someone who is where you want to be in 5 years. Take them for coffee/lunch and get advice. Ask questions

- Build up a network of people that you can bounce ideas off

1hr 12

- How to get a mentor

1hr 14

- How to ensure you have a good partnership

- Make sure your visions are aligned

- Communicate

- Don’t step on each others roles

- Write down your own strengths and put them next to each other

- Be nice 

- Is it true, is it necessary, is it kind?

1hr 17

- Don't rely on anyone

- Build and nurture relationships

- Give Give Give and your rewards will come

- Be more kind

1hr 20

- Turban tales book about the sikh project

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And... we're back! Thanks for joining us for season 2, episode 51. We kick this season off by discussing creativity in culture, things that have caught our eye and inspired us. Links to everything we discussed below!

Show Notes

• Catching up with the hosts

• Oscar nominations - https://variety.com/2019/film/news/oscar-nominations-2019-list-1203112405/

• Kevin hart steps down - https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/8/18131221/kevin-hart-oscar-hosting-homophobia-twitter-tweets

• Black panther - https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/22/18192727/black-panther-oscars-nomination-dark-knight-heath-ledger

• Roma first Netflix movie nominated - https://variety.com/2019/film/news/roma-netflix-first-best-picture-oscar-nomination-1203113407/

• Fyre fest debate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ0KNVU2fV0

• Audiobooks - https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Shoe-Dog-Audiobook/B06XSS47BK

• Damon dash on impact theory podcast, importance of visualisation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmdHJ4I5Vmg

• Wim Hof & Importance of being healthy as a creative - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaMjhwFE1Zw

• Coupe on Reggie Yates Podcast, water fasting - http://thereggieyatespodcast.libsyn.com/episode-15-lentil-lovers-ft-coupe

• US trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNCmb-4oXJA

• City Girls - Twerk ft. Cardi B (Official Music Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QryoOF5jEbc

• One to watch: Munya chawawa - https://www.instagram.com/munyachawawa/

• Blottermedia dance animation - https://www.instagram.com/p/BtHOlHiA9rs/

• Next episodes - http://www.forthecreators.show/

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*This episode was originally published on Wed Jul 11 2018*

We're back with another amazing spotlight episode for you, today we sit down with Bisi Akins who is a Presenter for TV & Events. Bisi previously won Miss Nigeria and is also the founder of YG Initiative, a youth community group aimed to inspire, develop and educate our youth with self worth. Bisi has many strings to her bow and you we hope you enjoy the story of her journey so far as much as we did!

We explore the the advantages and disadvantages of 'pretty privilege' and how that can effect your chances as a creator in your field.

We're sure you will get value from this episode! Please forward on and recommend to anyone you think will get something from it too!

Links:

Meet the Presenters: Bisi Akins ://www.yangatv.com/blog/meet-the-presenters-turn-up

SELFIE Principles ~ LIPS https://www.instagram.com/p/BggXBAKnJAO/

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*This episode was originally published on Mon Aug 20 2018*

Welcome back to another episode of For The Creators, where it’s our job to demystify creativity. In these long form conversations, we tease out tips and tricks from all kinds of creatives whether they’re Musicians, Presenters, Actors, Directors, DJs, Writers, Entrepreneurs and everything in between.

In this episode I sit down with MC Buskin, one third of the UK Garage group the Heartless Crew. As pioneers of UK Garage, Heartless Crew played a fundamental role in the rise of the genre and they continue to be respected globally for their contributions to the UK music scene. I have been a fan of the Heartless Crew since I was in secondary school and listening to them on Mission FM, but I had never really heard their story. So, I was really interested in finding out more about how it all started and how they were able to have a major influence on a genre of music, at such a young age.

I took Bushkin on a trip down memory lane and got an insight into his childhood, his musical influences, the formation of the Heartless Crew, the rise of the Crew and why they eventually decided to go their separate ways in 2011. This was definitely a nostalgic interview for me, but I am extremely proud that I got the chance to do it. I learned so much about Bushkin, the other members of the crew and the music scene in the 90s and 2000s during our conversation, and I genuinely hope that you do to.

So, without further ado, please enjoy my sit-down with, MC Bushkin from the Heartless Crew.   

Links:

Heartless Crew 'Heartless Theme'

Heartless Crew - Wikipedia

MC BUSHKIN (@McBushkin) | Twitter

Mc Bushkin (@mcbushkin) • Instagram photos and videos

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