Mia Watkins ’16, a cinema and television arts major, produced an award-winning music video for a new track by Handbook, a United Kingdom-based music producer.
After graduating early from Elon University in December 2015 – but a few months before she’d relocate to San Diego to work for Sony PlayStation – alumna Mia Watkins ’16 took on a freelance assignment producing a music video in her hometown of St. Louis.
Watkins created the video – available on YouTube – for Jake Brown, also known as Handbook, a United Kingdom-based music producer. The video’s track is called “Wanting You,” featuring Supreme Sol, and appears on Handbook’s new EP, “Devotion.” Coincidentally, Watkins knew Supreme Sol, also known as Robert Warren, through an old friend. It was Sol who introduced Watkins to the song he developed with Handbook.
Watkins described the video’s theme as “an epic quest of self that takes place between shadows and graffiti walls,” and she incorporated many visuals and backgrounds of her hometown.
While the Elon graduate enjoyed the creative process, she noted not every challenge was simple, especially the scene where Supreme Sol is depicted as having six arms – a task accomplished thanks to Adobe After Effects. “That was a fun challenge,” she said.