J-stunna celebrate yah music video

[Burns Luciano]

J-STUNNA CELEBRATE YAH MUSIC VIDEO
filmed on a canon rebel t3i my 1st project on a dslr camera

[HueyNRolf]

That wouldn't happen to be a 537-Films-Groundwork-Management production, by any chance?

[Daniel Rutter]

Credits for a music video... really?

All you need is the title of the song, the artist and the director showing for the first 5 minutes...

[Gillvane]

Re cut this. Start at 1:29. On the bottom left hand side of the screen put the artist, the song, the director. You want people to watch your artist. They are not going to make it there if they get board with the real estate tour.

[Burns Luciano]

Re cut this. Start at 1:29. On the bottom left hand side of the screen put the artist, the song, the director. You want people to watch your artist. They are not going to make it there if they get board with the real estate tour.

nothing i can do about that. he paid for it and that's what he wanted.

[kenkyusha]

The "in-need of help" first:

Shot from the balcony at :37, the background is way blown out.
Shot at 1:11 of them entering the bathroom- lighting from below doesn't match the established lighting scheme (also, there are some blow-outs here too).
The color/lighting seemed to change from shot to shot.
The girls- one in the kitchen was lipsynching along with the 'talent'- the one in the blue dress, outside with the car is clearly looking to you for screen direction... her eyeline breaks the 'I'm really in this moment' feel... it happens whenever she's alone with him on the ground, not so much on the balcony. Also, the camera adds 10 pounds- shooting these girls from low angles in the clothes that they wore led to some unfortunate bulges on them.
Cameraperson's reflection in his shades during the infinite white sections.
As everyone has said- the titles...

The 'solid'
The infinite white sections (reflected cam-op notwithstanding) looked really solid.
A couple of the camera moves worked well.
One of those girls did a fantastic job.

You're off to a good start though, and shooting video with a stills camera isn't intuitive. Keep at it.

they get board with the real.

(OT) Pain though it is, it's bored, in this case. (/OT)

[Daniel Rutter]

I think this is where my idea of letting the artists decide what they want and I'll just shoot it is a bad idea. Obviously this is what you're doing, but if you're happy to cash those checks at the end of the day knowing what you delivered was (possibly in your eyes) crap.

I'm all for cutting out as much work for myself as possible... especially when I don't "feel" the project I've been brought on to do. The few artists I've spoken to about doing music videos, came to me with some ideas... but left me as the "director" to flesh it out better, and make it less cliche.
This is where you need to step up your game I think. You need to make it clear to the talent exactly what they're getting you to do. Think about it, your name goes on these videos... what happens if you start doing music videos on a more professional level? You can't shake these bad ones, even playing explanations you were only there "for the money". Start practicing your input, you are the DIRECTOR after all. You can take the talents ideas, tell them what will work and what will not.

But, take this from someone who's only proof is one music video, but several 'videography' type videos.

[Burns Luciano]

i here where you are coming from but at the end of the day its what the client wants and that's what he wanted. if i start doing music videos on a more professional level that's great but im not gonna be ashamed of my old work.

[HueyNRolf]

They are not going to make it there if they get board with the real estate tour.

(OT) Pain though it is, it's bored, in this case. (/OT)

Maybe he meant board and lodging? It might be correct.