We Have Film School At Home

I’ve started this blog, using an old website, to work on my film skills while I’m in between albums. Unlike many indie musicians you might have heard of, I began releasing albums when I didn’t have the money to pay someone to make music videos for me. So, I started making my own music videos as part of the press process for an album release. Over the years, I’ve come to really enjoy the process of making music videos. The format is short enough that it doesn’t beg for an expensive production, but you have a lot of freedom over what it is that you choose to shoot. (Despite the fact that music videos have become a cliche in the modern day).

Nevertheless, there is still a lot more that I can learn from the process, so I decided I might try and give myself something like abstract film school assignments, and see what I can shoot in a given week. I’ll come up with an assignment – many will be very mundane – and see what I end up with. Provide some notes on what I learned, and what worked and what didn’t and go from there. Maybe by the end of this process, I will have expanded my skills for when the next round of music videos need to get made.

Cheers.