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Moby: $5000 Music Video Competition

Moby, who has been incredibly helpful and genourous with independent filmmakers has just released a new competition starting today. He is looking for music video directors to direct and shoot the new music video for his song "Wait For Me". The competition starts today Febuary 22nd and goes until April 5th. In his press release Moby states: the videos from the album 'wait for me' have all been made by friends of mine who were given complete creative control. the video for the song 'wait for me' ...

Music Video Deconstruction

Every now and again we deconstruct films, short and documentaries with our students. Today we’re going to deconstruct a widely popular Bjork YouTube video. The purpose of deconstructing films and music videos helps you identify three incredibly important things. 1. It exposes story structure 2. It exposes the technical attributes to the film / video 3. It exposes compositional elements to the film / video Today we have deconstructed the Bjork music video entitled “All is Full of Love”. I...

Best Music Video Directors

We just finished writing an article about how to direct a music video and we thought we would follow that post with a short inspirational post on some of the best contemporary music video directors. This list below is composed of 5 of the greatest music video directors. This list however, is by no means exhaustive. That being said, it is meant to provide you with a sense of the different styles used in today’s music video industry. 1. Michel Gondry is the Academy award winning French filmm...

How to Shoot a Music Video

Becoming a music video director is a dream for many filmmakers. The good news is that there are many independent musicians who don’t have the money or a record label backing them financially, that are nevertheless looking for ambitious directors for their music videos. There is definitely no shortage of opportunity in this area. What projects to work on? Before we start discussing the technical, structural and design standards of a music video shoot we want to first discuss an important co...