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.
El-P knows what it takes to promote an album. As a hip-hop producer, artist, and co-founder of the record label Definitive Jux, El-P has experience in every step of the creation, release, and marketing of an album. For his latest…
Paul Banks (formerly releasing under the moniker Julian Plenti) of Interpol, wants to be young again. In his new video for "Young Again", directed by Sophia Peer, he gets to be just that, getting to relive the magic of elementary school…
Back in 2006, Kevin Slack directed his first music video for The Gaslight Anthem. This wasnt only his first music video for the band, but his first music video ever. As Kevins career grew, he continued directing music videos for…
When we interviewed director Matt Amato a few weeks ago on the IMVDb Music Video Land podcast, he had this to say about shooting out in the real world: If I'm just going out in the world and doing something…
Kailey Swanson sings covers of popular songs on YouTube, and just released her first music video a few days ago for her first single, "Hooked". If you are wary of clicking "play" based on that information, I'm here to tell…
Everyone loves Psy these days, right? Hes totally still relevant and at the height of his popularity. Still plenty of minutes left in his 15. And because of that, you guys all care so much when he shows up places,…
Photo by Alyssa Shakur. Brooke Candy first caught our attention a few months ago when she appeared in the music video for Genesis by Grimes. At that point, she was a pink-haired, sword-wielding mystery to us, but that all changed last week.…
Anyone who has seen our promotional video FilmedInsert Takes LA knows that director Dugan ONeal is an amazing and hilarious actor (and also knows that the name of this website used to be FilmedInsert). Dugan has been featured in several…
The director of photography is often an unsung hero of the music videos process. While it can be argued that pretty much anyone who isnt Rihanna is an unsung hero of the music video process, no position is so vital…
The campaign for the next president of the United States of America is in the home stretch, and campaigns are a great time for America's crazy people to show their love for a candidate. Sure, they could just talk into…
We took a month off to give Hip-Hop YouTube comments a chance to work out some of their complexities. They were unable to, and so here we are again. In this months edition, we take some time to examine truth,…
Director Saman Kesh is no stranger to telling multilayered stories in his music videos. His ability to incorporate complex narrative elements in his work, while maintaining the organic and open structure that make music videos so unique, makes for some of…
The Masses describe themselves as a collaboration of directors and artists united by a passion for music and driven by unique and diverse cinematic visions. So, it is no surprise that director Chris Coats, who started in The Masses Lab…
Matt & Kim released their new music video for "Let's Go" today, but it's exclusive to Funny or Die. Currently, our standard video pages don't support Funny or Die embeds. A lot of IMVDb is a work in progress (as you…
That's a little bit of a dramatic title, but I think now that we've made a decision to put ourselves out there in the world as the music video database, we need to put out a reason for our existence…
One thing we talk about often on this site is how advances in Internet and camera technology have opened up the world of music videos to everyone. There was once a time when being a professional music video director meant…
We've been putting a lot of time and energy in our music video database project lately, but something was bothering us: our name. See, FilmedInsert was never supposed to be the name of a music video database. The original FilmedInsert.com…
For the second installment on Video Chats, I traveled to New York to hang out with director and photographer Michael Lawrence. Michael was born in Buffalo, New York and currently lives in Brooklyn, but he spent nearly 2 years living in Indonesia,…
Early yesterday morning, Frank Ocean tweeted that music videos are not the future. This made us all cry for legitimately 45 minutes, as we collectively reacted to our beloved Frank Ocean saying such a thing. Personally, it took going through…
Odds are, if youre reading this blog, youre familiar with our podcast Music Video Land, where once a week we interview cool music video industry people. After 57 episodes, weve realized that there are way more than 57 cool people…
Up until very recently, FilmedInsert has been a read-only site, meaning we put up the videos, and visitors come and view them. Today we're very happy to announce that the beta version of our video adder is now live! Just…
Do you guys remember when we posted our first "The Top 10 Music Video GIFs of All Time" blog a few months ago? Those days were great. Oh, the memories. But, rather than dwell in the past, we look ahead…
The MTV Europe Music Award nominations are in, and they have the only thing we care about - a music video category! Here's who is up for "Best Video" (director names added by us, they were not in the list).…
We're currently going full-tilt at FilmedInsert in the features adding department. Every day, aside from new music videos, new features get added that expand what FilmedInsert can do and what you can do with it. Here's a roundup of what…
We're lucky to have the fantastic LA Music Video Festival here in the US, but if you are in the UK, you might not know that you've also got a dedicated music video festival, and it's happening all this month!…
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