I started in music video production over 12 years, first doing music videos for independent artists in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, but after my fourth video "Indie" music, I had my first music video for the great U- God of Wu-Tang Clan, which has aired on BET's Rap City.
I got into producing music videos, music videos on television because I with a high budget, which look out crappy. I always said, "I could have done much better with a lower budget." So I put my money where myMouth, has brought a camera and a computer and edited 17 music videos later, the rest is history.
Go into production music video is very simple. Think about it. No matter where you live, there are music artists looking for someone to shoot and edit their own music video to pay - so you already have a market hungry. But when most filmmakers get their first music video, which is independent or celebrities are two important things to fail. Let me explain.
First, if you get into musicProduction of video, there's one thing you need to know. Keep It Simple Stupid. Even when I started, I only had a camera (Canon XL1) and a computer editing. I did not have all the bells and whistles that many people were in my area.
When I finished my first music video for the song I kept simple.The concept has had three verses so that I 3 scenes from different performances (the scenes to see where the artist, the song is) shots in every direction and we went a lot of different places and shot B-roll video(Scenes you see in music videos, ie where non-implementation: driving in slow-motion or slow sexy grinding on someone in the club). It only took 2 days. At that time, it was all said and done, I put on BET and Rap City and broadcast on Uncut. Do you understand. My first music video was broadcast on national television.
I am a firm believer in "making it work with what you have", and should as a director, always keep in mind. The bigger budget does not always mean betterFinal product. If you do not have unlimited resources, we are forced to think and do with what you have, and some of the hottest music videos from that seed was born.
Next, you need to know that a good music video, you need good locations, extras and props to do. First of all you need to know that you should not pay for all this, atleast I've never been.
Lets talk about my first music video and one of its most important, mad props and extras. I needed a churchScene, where a funeral is held, and the choir sang in the background. This meant that I had to floral arrangements, a treasure chest, fill in more for the man in the coffin with a church to play a priest, and about 20 people in the pews. Everything I did was just ask to get this product.
I walked around the coffin to a funeral home and I told them I need a coffin for someone who was shooting a music video. Remember, creating a scene, you should think about the time of the real world. DoThe scene looks like in real life. At that moment it struck me that I needed to go to the flowers around the coffin, so I asked the funeral home where I could get flowers to decorate the scene. I pointed to a flower shop he worked and gave me a number of flower arrangements for the funeral did.
My next trick has always been a church. This was a bit 'more difficult is that there was a rap video, and most churches do not agree with this kind of music. After being after3 different churches, I found a church that said yes. I had access to the choir and the venerable.
I had everything we needed for my scene, without paying a penny out of my budget. To achieve this, simply saying: "I need to use to shoot (product name) for a music video, but we have our budget is exhausted, it is good to use, we want to (item name) to run for our . and we can claim at the end of the music video ".
I have never seen any (with the exception of the three churches) says. ThisDeclaration I have foreign vehicles, schools, stations, hotels and many other props, locations and extras, most of the director must pay if they are not using it. Just ask.
Just knowing these two things will help you get started in music videos as easy as I was and if you are already in the field of music videos use this information to keep more of the budget in his pocket.
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