I recently covered the elections in South Africa. I wanted to try and avoid the boring and the cliched so I pitched the above film – young hip-hop artists sharing their views on the different parties as a way to explore the youth vote and why so many young people aren’t bothering to vote.

My Colleague Vauldi and I managed to find a cross-section of the local rap community and I wanted to film it in a gritty, urban way so that it felt like a music video rather than a news report.

I shot it on a combination of the Sony Z90 and the Sony a6300 and edited on FCPX – using a number of grunge video layers to dirty up the image.

On election day itself, I headed to Parys in the Free State to hear how rural voters felt. I didn’t make a stand-alone film tho my pictures were used extensively across BBC output. I did make a few clips for my Instagram account and have embedded them below.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxM-IJXnKuP/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxNGRX1nIRj/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxNMl14H_Lw/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet