Doug Klinger and Jason Baum talk about the notable music videos from 2021.
Interviews with music video directors and industry professionals, new release highlights, and IMVDb site news.
Music videos are inspired by lots of different things, but its rare to find one that was inspired by 5th grade science fair projects. However, in "Live Your Life (TWINSMATIC Remix)" by Yuna, thats exactly where directors fourclops turned when…
The debut music video for an up and coming artist is one of the first opportunities they have to really establish an image for themselves. In "Fall Over," the first music video for BANKS, the way director Dylan Knight approached…
A word of warning: if Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne are hanging around your mansion and your pool, keep a sharp eye out for them stealing from you and leaving in a helicopter. That's the central lesson behind the new…
Sometimes, a director needs to actually see whats in their head in order to help visualize the concept, even if that means doing ballerina moves in their living room, which is exactly what director DJay Brawner did while brainstorming the…
"Like Home" by Nicky Romero and NERVO is Kyle Padilla's first video as a solo director, and an ambitious one. It includes motorcycle stunts, an artist's first attempt at music video lip syncing, and, of course, directing an actor acting…
Spectacle: The Music Video, the first museum exhibition dedicated to music videos, opens tomorrow at Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York. Jonathan and Meg Wells of Flux curate the exhibit, and its goal is to explore the art, history,…
Family portraits are notorious for being awkward. There is a website dedicated to it. You can be the coolest, most photogenic family ever, but if I hand you over to a Sears photographer, 10/10 you're going to end up looking like…
Often times, a lot of post-heavy music videos dont really come together until the backend. However, the video for Bootleg Fireworks by Dillon Francis was built almost entirely in the edit, so the plan when shooting for director team MENZ…
There are few things cuter than a bunch of elderly folks, boogie down to some funky tunes. Just out there getting their geriatric grove on, as a cool band jams on stage. Even a photo of Anderson Cooper holding grumpy cat is…
One of our favorite things to do at IMVDb is to find film festivals that feature music videos of any kind (highlighted by our continuing coverage of this years SXSW). But, what we really love is when we can find…
Jay Sean is a smooth dude, even when hes constantly getting things spilled on him. In the new video for Where You Are directed by Hannah Lux Davis, not even mustard, coffee, or a giant bouncer can keep him from…
Practical and computer-based effects each come with their own unique set of challenges, and director Filip Sterckx decided to take on both sets when making the music video for Sweater by Willow. Consisting of a live-action lead singer traveling through a projected computer-animated world,…
If you like your music political, you might want to check out Killer Mike's track "Reagan," off his 2012 album R.A.P. Music. If you like your music videos political (and by political we mean Ronald Reagan's naked body, suspending in a…
Described as a "love letter to VHS and childhood," the video for Starcadians "HE^RT" has a look and feel that will be very familiar (and hopefully close to the heart) of many readers who grew up in the era of…
Having a music video selected to screen at SXSW doesnt just benefit the director of the video. Everyone involved with video, from the artist and through to each crew member, contributed to the success of the project. Thats why we were…
Like most of the tech, film, and music world, we were in Austin, Texas this week covering SXSW. We were there, of course, to cover the music video portion of the event, which started with the first music video program…
Having an inanimate object star in your music video can be difficult for both the director and the artist. For the director, they have to figure out a way to make a story about an object compelling. For the band,…
From April 3 through June 16, 2013, Spectacle: The Music Video will be featured at Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, New York. Curated by Jonathan Wells and Meg Grey Wells of Flux, Spectacle is the first museum exhibition…
With the way budgets and production schedules are set up, there are sometimes shots in music videos that the director can only get once. Shots where everything has to go perfectly, and if it doesnt you have to keep going…
No doubt you have seen something mentioning South by Southwest appear in you Twitter or Facebook feed lately. It starts today in Austin, Texas, and IMVDb is headed down there to check out what is happening in the world of…
Often times, music video directors have to capitalize on what the situation offers them in order to be successful. On the music video for BBQ Sauce by Sean Price featuring Pharoahe Monch, director Todd Angkasuwan was able to capitalize on…
A good director and producer relationship is like a marriage, requiring a good balance of give and take from both partners for it to be successful. Thats why when director Ali Presley Paras describes his producing partner Kenneth Ferrell as…
Here at IMVDb, we are such big fans of Brooke Candy that we feel like we know her. We dont, though. But Spaghetto does! And has for a while now even before Brooke was everybodys favorite sexy lady rapper. After being friends for…
This past weekend, we were on location in Long Island with BRTHR and I/O on set of the music video for Wasted My Time. The marathon production, with over 15 locations in less than 72-hours, required I/O to do everything…
Up until now, it has literally just been two people (Doug and myself) entering and moderating data on IMVDb. That was fine when we were getting 3-4 video submissions a day, but in the past few months we've been faced…
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