Here are some of the roles that you will need to fill: If you have a team, everyone should be clear on what they are responsible to accomplish. However complicated (or simple) your shoot is, you'll need a team.
However, if your budget permits your band to produce a video for a song from someone else, that does not already have a video or single out on it, get the paperwork in place to move forward legally.Ĭasting the Film Crew and Getting Equipment If the song is not yours, consider copyright costs. Do not assume that a song that is not yours is okay to use for your music video.Even the best filmmakers struggle to put a good video together if the band does not feel inspired by the lyrics and sound of the song they’ve selected. Music videos should be authentic expressions of the song’s creators. Make sure that your song truly inspires the band. You will not like every song that you and your band create or play.The longer you take, the greater your risk abandoning the project. You might want to start small. For every minute of a song in a music video, it can take you and your crew anywhere from 2-10 hours of shooting, editing, and finishing.Therefore, you might pick a track from an album that you had a great music video idea for in the past, even if that track wasn't originally planned as a single. Don’t merely think in terms of a “single.” Honestly, in these days of Internet streaming, any track can be a single.Instead, consider selecting a song that has done well in the past or use a single that is planned for release in the future, after you plan to publish your next single. If the song is three minutes or longer, your “new” single might already have come out by the time you’ve published your video. Think ahead or recycle an old song. It will take a lot longer than you think to shoot, edit, and produce a music video.Here are a few other factors to consider when choosing a song: While it might seem like the best idea to simply make a video for your next upcoming single, that may or may not make the most sense. So let’s step back from the image and pay homage to her one-of-a-kind songbook - because the weirdest and most fascinating thing about Taylor Swift will always be her music.Rachel Murray / Stringer / WireImage / Getty Images These are the songs that sum up her wit, her empathy, her flair for emotional excess, her girls-to-the-front bravado, her urge to ransack every corner of pop history, her determination to turn any chorus into a ridiculous spectacle. Sister Tay may be the last true rock star on the planet, making brilliant moves (or catastrophic gaffes, because that’s what rock stars do). It’s a tribute to her fierce creative energy - in the past couple years she’s released nearly 50 new songs, and she’s got more on the way. For the Taylor’s Version remakes, both versions count as the same song.
Since Taylor loves nothing more than causing chaos in our lives, she’s re-recording her albums, including the outtakes she left in the vault before. (I guarantee you are a more fascinating human than the Twilight guy, though I’m probably not.) All that matters is whether they’re about you and me. But they’re not ranked by popularity, sales or supposed celebrity quotient - just the level of Taylor genius on display, from the perspective of a fan who generally does not give a rat’s nads who the songs are “really” about. Every fan would compile a different list - that’s the beauty of it.
The hits, the flops, the deep cuts, the covers, from her raw 2006 debut as a teen country ingenue right up to Folklore and Evermore. Let’s break it down: all 199 tunes, counted from the bottom to the top. So with all due respect to Taylor the myth, the icon, the red-carpet tabloid staple, let’s celebrate the real Taylor - the songwriter she was born to be. She was soaring on the level of the all-time greats before she was old enough to rent a car, with the crafty guile of a Carole King and the reckless heart of a Paul Westerberg - and she hasn’t exactly slowed down since then. It’s in her music where she’s made her mark on history - as a performer, record-crafter, guitar hero and all-around pop mastermind, with songs that can leave you breathless or with a nasty scar. But Swift was a songwriter before she was a star, and she’ll be a songwriter long after she graduates from that racket. Taylor Swift the celebrity is such a magnet for attention, she can distract from Taylor Swift the artist.