BTS Pics: 'Death'

Hello lovely Patrons!

We just wrapped on our next episode, working title Death! Here's some pictures from the set!

 Here's our first look - I just called it The Angel!

 We'll be talking about the philosophy of death - not only how individuals confront it, but also how it factors into nations and communities, hence the book about Diana

 Brian Conway returned to style the outfits these time

 He did an amazing job, as always! Although not-so-fun-fact, those heels were REALLY painful! :( Not sure why but my poor feet just didn't want to do heels today

For some reason this shot is kindof giving Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl... that's kindof a self-own lol but hey ho

And we called this one The Croc! Philosopher Val Plumwood famously wrote some work after encountering a crocodile, so this outfit was inspired by that!

Nicki Buglewicz returned to do the makeup and she BROUGHT IT. To get the scales pattern on my head she first painted it with black bodypaint and dark eyeshadow, then held fishnet stockings over it and put shiny eyeshadow in the gaps to look like reptilian skin! Incredible!

I will say though that being in a greenhouse in a leather jacket was PUNISHING I was SO warm

 This look was actually a B-option for The Croc, but it ended up being my favourite I think!

 That's Judith Butler's Frames of War on the ground there: I had some leftover thoughts on Butler after the previous episode so they're included this time

 Those claws are by OnyxNailsDesign, you might recognise them as the same ones I wore to the premiere of Identiteaze

 The "dirt" on me is a trick of Nicky's that we last did in our AI video: she sprayed me with coconut oil and then dusted me with cocoa powder

 Somebody made me laugh here while we were shooting the stills

Okay so this one requires some explanation. When I'm designing titles and thumbnails I use a special tool that tells me what the top questions people are searching for related to a given topic. Turns out the most searched questions on the topic of 'Death' are all to do with the Death Note anime. And I've also heard that if you put a recognisable brand or symbol in the thumbnail of a video it massively increases clickthrough rates, so I have a plan - YouTube enables me to A/B test thumbnails now, so I think I'll try comparing two thumbnail designs, one with the Death Note book in it and one without, and we'll see which one does better! Influencer strategy baby!

I'm really pleased with this episode. The pictures don't show it but I've taken some fairly big creative risks with this one and I hope they pay off - you'll see more when I post screenshots from my editing phase, there's actually more to this video than you can see here!

Abi XXx