Be Your Boy Music Video Press Kit

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CONTACT INFORMATION:
Haley Johnson
connect@haleynjohnson.com

RELEASE DATE:
February 10th, 2022

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[LOS ANGELES, CA, February 10th, 2022]

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What made you turn to crypto to fund your film? How did you do it?
At the time I had less than a week to fund the project and was working paycheck to paycheck as a production assistant. I tried the traditional crowdfunding campaign, but it gave us about a quarter of what we needed to actually make the project. Family and friends then made me aware of the value of NFTs and some quick networking made it possible for me to offer signed scripts and in exchange for funding. Our time constraint actually prevented many people from donating because at that point we had already raised all that we needed.

Why did you choose the song (If) the Book Doesn’t Sell?
The first time I had ever heard this song I immediately looked for the music video. The song itself was such a compelling script in itself and I figured there had to be some insane music video to go with it. To my surprise, there was just the official audio and some small fan-made material but I still wanted more. The song spoke to me so deeply that I knew I couldn’t make anything else until I made that music video.

Why was it important for you to have an all-female crew?
Due to the heavily emotional nature of the project, curating the perfect set environment was one of my top priorities. I wanted to create a space in which everyone felt like their ideas could flourish and true collaboration could happen. Additionally, I am a big believer in giving back to the people who help you so I made sure we prioritized education when possible. Most department heads were seasoned professionals and under them were bright young women eager to learn a new skill. The majority of the crew members were dancers and for some of them was the first set they had ever worked on.

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Photo Credit: Jenna Huskisson
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Haley N. Johnson
Photo Credit: Jenna Huskisson
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Photo Credit: Jenna Huskisson
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Bios

The Writer, Director & Producer

Haley Johnson
An American actress/director/producer. Originally from South Florida, the young artist danced her way to Hussian College In Studio where she was introduced to acting and filmmaking. During her sophomore year, Haley switched her major to Film & Digital Content. This allowed her to frequently jump from in front and behind the camera positions, cementing her love for the art form in its entirety. In her junior and senior year, Haley worked as a production assistant on major Hollywood productions including The Goldbergs, 9-1-1, and Bullet Train, and spent most weekends leading student productions. Haley continues to act and direct post-grad and aspires to create emotionally compelling material.

The Music Artist

Medium Build / Nick Carpenter
Medium Build hails from The Air Crossroads of The World, Anchorage, Alaska, where you may just get held up in traffic due to a moose crossing. Carpenter is known to maintain an ever-evolving collaboration built around a mutual love of 80s country, grapefruit soda water, and 90s R&B. He produces deeply layered tracks by inter-mingling raw, emotionally honest lyrics with forging instrumentation. With minimal effort, he blends electronic with analog and draws the audience into sad songs you can dance to. And you’ve got to love the vision and mantra Carpenter implores, which is “Let’s keep it shitty.”

The Producers

Producer Weston Bradley
Weston is a Native American producer, editor, and writer hailing from Kansas City. The budding filmmaker decided to attend film school at Chapman University in Orange, California after a childhood of musical theater. During his years as a film production undergrad, Weston worked as a production assistant on indie films such as Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, Chris Colfer’s Struck By Lightning, and Michael Mohan’s Save The Date. After graduating college with a Film Production Degree with an emphasis in Editing, Weston landed a job in the writer’s room of Jonathan Nolan’s Person of Interest and eventually Westworld. Since then, Weston has continued to hone his craft by participating in every aspect of production from pre-post on more indie projects leading to Executive Producing his first TV Pilot Solarium which is to be released in the spring of 2022.

Producer Breanne Wilhite
Breanne is an all things pre-production powerhouse that comes from ‘the Swiss Cheese Capital of the USA’ Monroe, Wisconsin. After learning seemingly all you could about the simple things in life, she yearned for more. She took everything she knew from years of theater and put it into a film that got her a shot at Hussian In Studio College Los Angeles. During her first year at HCLA, she landed herself in her home of pre-production. She then assistant directed for many student films, and went on to produce her first project, the NFFTY Film Festival nominee for Best Music Video, Rainy Day, directed by John Chigas. Eventually, she moved on to create indie music videos for Director Haley Johnson including; Notion: Love Me, I Love You, 12:34 – (If) The Book Doesn’t Sell, and now Be Your Boy.

The Director of Photography

Jenna Huskisson
Jenna is a female-identifying director of photography based in Los Angeles. She prides herself in her ability to create informed visuals driven by character and story in both commercial and narrative work. This is her second project with Haley Johnson as she was also director of photography on 12:34 (If) the Book Doesn’t Sell, an Unwoke Funding success. Most recently she’s completed work for Summer Salt designer swimwear company, Alfa-Bank, and Jordan Hawkin’s ‘Risky’.

Be Your Boy Music Video Cast & Crew

Medium Build / Nick Carpenter
Medium Build hails from The Air Crossroads of The World, Anchorage, Alaska, where you may just get held up in traffic due to a moose crossing. Carpenter is known to maintain an ever-evolving collaboration built around a mutual love of 80s country, grapefruit soda water, and 90s R&B. He produces deeply layered tracks by inter-mingling raw, emotionally honest lyrics with forging instrumentation. With minimal effort, he blends electronic with analog and draws the audience into sad songs you can dance to. And you’ve got to love the vision and mantra Carpenter implores, which is “Let’s keep it shitty.”
Medium Build Music | IG: @mediumbuild/

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Producer Erik Zimmerman
1st AC Parker Wood @gparkerwood
Electric/Dolly Grip Abby Mucha @much.a
Gaffer (Sat) Harrison Segal @harrison_segal
Gaffer (Sun) Alexander Forcillo
Production Designer Mikayla Himmelheber @mikaylahimmelheber
Stylist Aaliyah Henderson @aaliyah.mecca
HMU Sabrina Porcelli @sabrinaporcelli
PA Logan Slovacek @logan.slovacek
DIT/Swing PA Natalie Ring @n.autilus
CCO/BTS Kate Graves @createbykate
Editor Greg Foltynowicz @gfoltynowicz

Be Your Boy Music Video

Writer, Director & Producer Haley N. Johnson

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