Jamie Woon is the scarily talented 23-year-old singer from south London who, armed only with a loop pedal and a guitar, chiselled the raw materials of a 200-year-old Appalachian folk song into a thing of brooding, haunted beauty.

First signing of south London youth project Live Recordings , he's already been played out on R1, courtesy of a particularly cavernous reworking by Burial, and you can check his hypnotic video for "Wayfaring Stranger" here. Dazed Digital spoke to director Sophie Clements.

What did you want to try and do with this video, apart from make us all click our fingers like Paul McKenna?
The aim was to encapsulate the feeling of otherworldliness that is carried through in the song. In a way it is a twist on an obvious treatment - to take Jamie on a journey through different landscapes - but in this video the journey happens to Jamie rather than him playing an active part in it... as if it could be read that this is a journey in the mind as much as a physical journey.

How did you get that effect?
Over the course of a week, I filmed Jamie singing the song in three positions in 40 locations. The positions were measured so that his framing within the shot was as near to identical as possible for each location. The video was then made by simply fading between shots, and layering up shots of the same position in different locations to create a more abstract background.

Why not use a computer?
By keeping rigid to the idea and process, and not using any compositing techniques or other effects, the integrity of the physical journey, the concept, and the process we went through is preserved, and it is the strange effect that happens when multiple shots of Jamie's face are layered up that I think gives it its otherworldly feel. It is the mis-registration and 'mistakes', the changes of light and wind that give it the feel of being something else rather than the obvious idea of this being Jamie singing in a series of places or Jamie singing in front of a green screen.

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