![]() "It was a bit more intimate and I wanted people to get to know me. It was really personal to me and about my journey. "I'm quite a chilled out person and it was not a 'look at me, so trendy song'. The setting and the sort of mood of everything was like 'Look at this. "The official video saw me walking down streets at night and ended up in a house party situation. ![]() "I got my friend, the videographer Luke Monaghan - he has done behind the scenes stuff for Professor Green and Emil Nava, who directed the Devlin video Runaway and Jessie J's Do It Like A Dude - to help as well as a friend who gave me the use of a house. She added: "I paid for it all myself as the budget had been used up on the official video and luckily lots of people gave me reduced rates. Yasmin luckily knew some good videographers and producers from her previous work with Devlin on Runaway and she managed to work within a £1000 budget. "He gave me it on hard drive and I had to run to my label for 9am on Monday and then deliver it to the TV stations." ![]() "I shot the new video all day Saturday and in the evening and the editor had to edit it during the night and all day Sunday. "On the Friday I had to phone everyone I knew and arrange to shoot a second video which I needed to present on the Monday morning. "While I was there I called around a few people and when I got back on Thursday they asked me to do another edit of the video but it was still not me. I couldn't put it out there but I was in LA for ten days and couldn't do anything fast. "It didn't represent me and I was cringing. "As soon as we shot it I had to fly out to LA to work and they sent it out for my approval but when I saw it I thought it was really not me. "The shoot was all day long, from 7am until midnight, and there was a big crew with lots of extras. She said: "We got a video treatment sent to the label at Ministry of Sound and decided on the one that seemed to be right. The singer, who already counts Pharrell Williams, Taio Cruz, Will.I.Am and Eve as friends, revealed exclusively to the Razz that she ditched her record company video after deciding it didn't represent her properly. Stunning 22-year-old Yasmin Shahmir, from Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, made her name playing hip hop and R&B in Glasgow clubs such as Kushion and The Tunnel and is now aiming to set the charts alight with her debut single On My Own. HOT DJ turned singer Yasmin rejected her record company's big budget video in favour of her own DIY version costing just a grand.
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