I’m just me, all the time. People think, ‘She must be an innocent little white girl when she’s not performing or making videos.’ But no, I’m me all year round, 24/7.
And my idols in music videos are people like Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze and Johnathan Glazer and David Fincher and that’s always kind of been my reference point in music video and commercial directors.
I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don’t know about the music.
All the things I do in my videos – the jumps, twirls and back bends – will also be onstage.
Skillshare is a terrific online learning community for creative people. It teaches you new skills through well-made videos with great production values. I’ve been using Skillshare to teach myself Adobe After Effects. All the videos feature people who are professionals in their field. I love this site.
The things you do early on, people don’t know, but once they start studying videos and know what to plan, they know what to expect. So you have to keep on evolving, and according to situations, you have to adapt, because if you are just a one-trick pony, that won’t work for a long period of time.
I am fine if videos and pictures are clicked when there are legit events and interviews. If I am sitting and having a private dinner with my son, my family or my girlfriend, then I do not want it to be filmed.
I’m definitely inspired by Michael Jackson. I watch all his videos all the time. And Busta Rhymes, early Busta Rhymes – I really was inspired by him. He’s really the reason why I started rapping. Because all his visuals. I loved his videos when I was younger.
I be turnt when I’m making music videos, and then I’ll just do a different dance in each one that I haven’t done before, just because I’m lit.
I don’t think I’ll be doing daily videos forever.
But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we’d open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it’s the hippest thing to do. We’re just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.
Have I ever had dance lessons? I’m mobile, but not nearly as much as our promotional videos lead people to believe.
I want to make videos that, if I didn’t know myself, I’d want to watch. As long as I’m making myself laugh, I’m usually having a good time. That’s how I know I’ve made a video that I’m proud of: I’ve made myself laugh.
My goal is to make the process of taking and watching videos as easy as it is for photos.
I’d wanted to be a director since I was five and had been making videos since I was a kid. Then YouTube came around during high school. I was making videos, and it was just a place to put them, like storage.
Most of my videos are 60 seconds long. They can only fit about 200 words. There are a lot of things that I wanted to discuss about a given topic – my feelings behind it, how I ended up making a video, what happened before and after – that I couldn’t because I had this 60-second limit.
I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that’s important to me.
The money I earn from a live show is divided into two parts. One section goes towards producing my music videos, and the other goes into my savings.
I write my own blog every day. I do the Twitter every day and the Facebook. Without a gap. I do everything myself: I load my own photographs; I sometimes take my own videos and post them.
I really would not be where I am today if I hadn’t done those PUP videos. It just showed me so much. It taught me so much about music and acting and being your own boss.
My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
There are 1,000 videos available, which can help you learn different types of workout. If nothing, then you can just take a walk in your vicinity, go for a jog or even take the stairs instead of lifts and escalators.
I’ve seen that so many people have made and uploaded videos with my song, ‘Bubble Pop.’ I was inspired because many of them were even better than me.
A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.
If a hit came along, I wouldn’t be unhappy about that. But I’m a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I’ve kind of done all that, in the ’70s.
I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.
The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They’re going to start to count for something. Because there’s only a limited amount of us-time available to us.
Well, I have to say, I used to spend a lot of time looking at cat videos on the internet. It’s like YouTube have sent me an e-mail asking if I’m alright because I haven’t been on in ages.
I think half the battle is just being comfortable in front of the camera – and I already am, doing so many videos and interviews, so then it just takes that extra step of trying to get into character.
I did, like, a couple of sexier videos, because all of a sudden I went, ‘Wow, I have a body. I have this side of me that I haven’t shown yet.’ And I started kind of playing around with that side of things.
It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don’t think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
If I read every comment on my YouTube videos, I’d go crazy with people that are saying negative things.
I’d love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.
I used to prepare in advance on how the bowler is going to bowl, whether is he going to bowl an outswinger or an inswinger? I used to watch the videos of the bowler and used to prepare in advance.
Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see.
A lot of my writing comes from the themes of my life, and a lot of that stems from my faith. I also strive to be a light through which Christ can shine, whether it’s through the way I dress, though my videos, or through my music.
God bless Skrillex. I love the kid, but he puts out a new video, what, every four weeks? I’m like the Dos Equis guy. I don’t normally do music videos, but when I do, I go big.
My first camera job was filming workplace safety videos, which involved months of watching and videotaping people doing their jobs. I was hooked – from there, I wanted to know where they lived and the rest of their habits and desires.
Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
When I sit down and make videos, my No. 1 thought is that I want to make a video that I want to watch.
Yeah, I’ve been in booty magazines and did music videos but guess what? I can be on Nickelodeon too if I want to!
It’s insanely difficult to ask an audience to go somewhere other than YouTube to watch videos.
You have to do all kinds of things like voice-overs, corporate gigs, and edit videos to support yourself.
When I started trying to become a director, I started shooting low budget short films, 50-dollar music videos, making my own stuff. That eventually led to commercials.
I’m a huge fan of Geffen records. Everything about them – their artists, their videos, their marketing.
I wasn’t properly performing in Canada. I was just starting out, and when everyone starts out, they’re terrible. I’m sure there are some Kellyanne Conway videos of me just really dying on a stage.
I had to work a lot. I was doing YouTube videos, but I wasn’t getting a lot of love. How do I make a living off rapping when no one knows me? I got kind of discouraged. But hard work shuts people up.
I was the first South Asian female to do comedy videos on YouTube. But at the same time, all races face their barriers, and I’ve learned through YouTube, if it’s not race, it will be sexism, if it’s not sexism, it will be homophobia. It will always be something, and all voices should be heard.
I wouldn’t be posting videos of me in drag or doing a remake of Zoolander’s orange mocha frappuccino scene if I didn’t still like attention.
Of course I like to watch myself bat. After every innings, match, series, I do watch my own videos whenever I get the time.
I wanted to be a pro wrestler, but my mom didn’t let me. I used to make videos and stuff in the backyard. I had a buddy named Daniel Decker, and we used to have a tag team called the ‘Deck Garra Era.’ We used to make video after video. We were the tag team champions, but then we turned on each other.
The show is called ‘Todrick,’ and the show follows my life and the friends that I’ve gathered over the past few years making YouTube videos. Every week, we’re taking a brand new concept – a brand new original song, brand new hair, makeup, choreography, and making a video come to life on our shoestring budget.
