Lights Film School Blog

Tadcast: Product Placement in Independent Films

Lights Film School recently had the opportunity to sit down with the people at Tadcast and speak with them about their vision for their new company that seeks to help filmmakers finance their productions through the use of strategic product placement in their online videos. You can now earn considerable revenue through product placement without having to go out and find advertisers yourself. Tadcast has already found the advertisers for you. Read our exclusive interview below. Lights Film Sch...

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...