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.
Nothing breaks our site more than interactive music videos. Now, don't misunderstand, we LOVE working interactie msuic videos. Love 'em. In fact, we've even featured podcast interviews with directors of some amazing interactive music videos, including fourclops and Lex Halaby.…
A few days ago, I was looking at our FilmedInsert home page and said "this layout sort of looks like Pinterest". I asked Doug and he agreed. That got me thinking - would anyone want to share music videos on…
Doug and I did a little liveblog of the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards last night, and we both had a confession - we hadn't watched the MTV Video Music Awards in a long time. Me because I gave up…
The 2012 Music Video Awards are tonight and since Doug and Adam would be watching and commenting to each other on Skype anyways, we thought we'd set up a liveblog! We'll be starting at 7:30pm EST. Join us!
If you've had an eye on our site, you may have noticed a lot of little changes happening over the last week or so. One of these is a feature we're excited about: listing in-production videos. A FilmedInsert music video…
Wow, music videos can be sexy, cant they? I mean, think about it. There is some sexy, sexy stuff in music videos. Some music videos go as a far as to contain nudity, but even the ones that dont will…
After several emails and fan requests, weve decided to actually follow through with posting the second edition of this blog series because, lets face it: hip-hop YouTube comments arent getting any less complex. This month, we take on the issue…
Summer time is my favorite time of the year. Not because school is out, but because OMG! Cameras Everywhere! is in. OMG is a free summer camp put on by professional (read: awesome) music video directors in LA for kids ages 7-15,…
Two weeks ago, while in LA, I had the chance to attend the latest installment of the Flux Screening Series at the Hammer Museum. While there, I sat down with Flux founder Jonathan Wells and asked him some questions about some…
Today we released our 50th Music Video Land podcast! We started the podcast all the way back in February 2011, shortly after FilmedInsert was released, and since then we've released over 50 hours of interviews, news, and picks of the…
When we started FilmedInsert in late 2010, it was a pretty simple side project that mainly set up for fun. Fast forward almost two years, and a lot has happened. FilmedInsert has gotten much more complex and much more…
The epic conclusion of our two part series! See what happens below! Thanks again to all the peeps who helped! Part 2 includes: Robby Starbuck Leach McKissock Isaac Ravishankara Matt Wells Michael Q. Schmidt Dugan O'Neal Ryan McNeill
Frequent listeners of the Music Video Land podcast know that one of our favorite things in the world is OMG Everywhere!, a nonprofit based in LA that allows kids to collaborate with working music video directors through camps, workshops, and…
Some of the most disgusting, misinformed, and illegible sentences ever written can be found in the comment section of a YouTube video. Any YouTube video. Even the cute, inspirational ones of little kids and cats get their share of…
This Wednesday (July 18, 2012), will launch the new monthly screening series from the LA Music Video Festival called "LAMVF Spotlight." Wednesday's event will feature director Isaiah Seret and be held at The Downtown Independent Theater in Los Angeles. According to the…
The 2012 Vimeo Festival+Awards was early last month. Wish you had been there? Well, guess what, I WAS! And if you give me about 4 or 5 minutes, I can fill you in on all the haps! First off, some…
We've known for a while now that Vevo's content deal with YouTube is up at the end of the year, but we've recently started to see some rumblings of how that negotiation is going. Today's article from the LA Times…
I was lucky enough to be able to attend the amazing 2012 Vimeo Festival+Awards (more on that next week) last month in NYC. While I was there I had the chance to sit down with Blake Whitman, the VP of Creative Development…
While we're all out celebrating our patriotism in the United States of America today, I thought it might be a good time to direct your attention to the most popular way music videos display their American pride: by putting up…
Animated GIFs are great! We all love them, this is well documented... And music video related animated GIFs might literally be the greatest thing in the world! This is also well documented. But, with all of the One Direction and…
Lana Del Rey is back and making a video for "National Anthem", which has one hell of a premise: rapper A$AP Rocky as JFK and Lana portraying Jacqueline Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. Lana loves her preview clips, so today we get one…
A few months ago, I (Doug) went to LA to interview some directors in person and get on the set of a real live music video. This is what happened. Thanks to everyone who was in this for being so…
Back when MTV played music videos regularly, the way a band was depicted in their music video could literally make or break their career (this guy knows what Im talking about). Although no one discovers new music by watching MTV anymore, music…
For those of you not familiar with Canada's tendency to have a counterpart to most American entertainment franchises, the equivalency chart for music award shows goes something like this: Grammys = Juno Awards MTV Music Video Awards = MuchMusic Video…
While in New York back in April, I linked up with Chike from Creative Control as he shot the music video for Hardknocks with Joey BADA$$ and CJ Fly. Here are some of the cool things I saw.
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