"A Night" music video
• Blok M Casting (Casting Company. Commercials, Print, Music Videos, Films, Webisodes) posted this on their Facebook 2 days before the video shoot :
The day after the shoot they posted this :
• So the video shoot allegedly took place December 13 in the city of Victorville, CA. That day, Rihanna's haristylist (Yusef) was heading there :
Caption: "My view driving to work today in California 😍"
• Melissa also posted this pic the same day :
• Jeff Nicholas (video director/producer, co-founder of The Uprising Creative), who directed the music video of
What Now, took a flight on December 11 & posted this pic the day of the video shoot :
Caption : "Hurry up and shoot."
• Some girl who lives in Los Angeles also revealed that a 60 feet American flag was used in a new Rihanna music video :
• Rihanna posted this pic on her Instagram on December 20 (two days before the video shoot of
FourFiveSeconds). We can see a giant American flag behind her, which seems to be shined by a light screen :
This pic was reposted by Melissa (caption : "R8"), also reposted by Dennis Leupold (with "#R8" in the caption), and quoted by The Uprising Creative :
It's safe to say that this shot was from the set of the music video of December 13, in CA.
• 4 days after the shoot, on December 17, Jeff Nicholas (Uprising Creative) posted this on his Instagram :
Caption: "Last minute trip to Paris."
• On December 18, Roc Nation followed several French fans on twitter, and DMed them "Be part of the #R8experience !!!!", and told them to be there at 6 PM (local time) at the Trocadero (Paris).
• The same day, the video directors of The Uprising Creative (who directed the shoot in CA, 5 days before) were installing professional cameras at the Trocadero :
• At 6:30 PM local time, Rihanna arrived on set and around 100 fans were there and were asked to run towards Rihanna when they'll start filming. During the video shoot (which only lasted 5/10 minutes), a new song called "Only If For A Night" (later registered as "A Night") was played :
• 1 day later, Darren Craig (co-founder of The Uprising Creative) posted this on his Instagram :
Caption : "Beautiful chaos with @badgalriri in Paris! #R8"
Recap
A top secret video shoot took place on December 13, in CA, directed by The Uprising Creative.
Another quick video shoot took place in Paris, 5 days later, also directed by The Uprising Creative. According to Jeff Nicholas, this one was planned at the last minute. I guess Rihanna probably had the idea to feature fans in the video the day before heading to Paris. That was probably an additional scene for the video shot in Cali, especially since both shoots were directed by the same people.
Like some of y'all think, the Paris shoot could've been for some advert to announce the album or the tour, but if so they would've never played a new song off the album , knowing that the fans could hear it (you only do that for music videos). I'm 99% sure that both shoots were for the music video of "A Night".
One last thing ; the #R8experience happened 4 days before "FourFiveSeconds" was shot in NY, and the latter was most likely planned for weeks / months since they had to find a day where Rihanna, Kanye, Paul & the directors were all available. When they shot "FourFiveSeconds", it was already supposed to be the 1st single, so "A Night" will likely serve as the 2nd single. Not to mention that this song was used as the opening of her DirecTV concert last month.
