The guys at Quite Great Music PR spend a great deal of time discussing blog methods with all their clients from around the world and although we feel video footage is key sometimes the information that one of our acts outlines, really excites us in terms of their passion towards a subject, and as we deal with artists from across the globe helping them to promote music in the UK , the passion shown by the wonderful Jo Cooper from Australia about how to create a music video I think is a really useful insight into how best to write a narrative blog, check her out let us know your thoughts on our Facebook.
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I have been releasing music via a PR agent here in Australia, we have had some good success with radio, TV, in flight and in store media. However the struggle always seems to be ‘Great Voice, Great Tracks but doesn’t have the profile’.
I have been played on most of the commercial stations but always missing out on our big Top 3 stations here in Australia because I don’t have the fan numbers.
The positives are, whenever I do a show I get a great response and when I do media interviews radio etc. I always get told that I’m a great person to interview (I think it’s because I’m hyperactive and never quiet ).
My weakness is social media, I find I never have time for it and I know it is the most important thing, so I know that is an area I have to work on ASAP.
HERE IS SOMETHING I WROTE REGARDING MY FILM CLIPS IN THE PAST.
It’s starts with a coffee and a casual chat, when Simon Smith (video Director) and I meet up to discuss music clips it’s never a dull event.
“We have discussed so many clips and they never seem to be simple, one time I said “actually lets do a quick clip at a lower budget”, within less than 5 minutes the so called ‘Simple, Lower Budget Concept’ was us discussing filming on a Greek Island with lots of Dancers and Fire, we did manage to bring ourselves back around however we aren’t ruling out our Greek Island Film Clip in the future.
My wild imagination/nothing is impossible persona combined with Simon who is known for his love of extravagant interpretations of a song, it’s no wonder you end up with Gangsters in your very first music video, and having fake blood squirting on a high end restaurants ceiling (all washable don’t worry).
Stupid Boy featured Carmelo Pizzino from Dancing With The Stars Australia.
When we sat down (over a coffee of course) to discuss the second clip Don’t Turn Back we agreed to have a more emotional clip to really touch on the meaning of the song and share a deeper side. We also agreed to not have as much Kaos or fire arms……well within a few minutes we came up with a really cool ending for the clip and that was to have a car blown up in a wrecking yard with me walking away with a match stick. That was it Pyrotechnics were called and booked for the day.
Unfortunately or fortunately on the day the pyrotechnic never showed up so we had to come up with an ending on the spot, luckily a quick thinking Denis, owner of Bonanza Wrecking (location of clip) had a ending that was right up our ally.
Denis looked at me and said “what are the chances you know how to drive a fork lift?” my response with a smirk on my face “my first job was at a fruit shop where I refused to be a check out chick and wanted to drive the fork lift, let’s rip this car up”. And that was that and can I say I had the best time ever.
Don’t Turn Back features Radek Jonak (Red Dog, Underbelly).
Many coffees later we started discussing Touch The Sky, again it was let’s keep this one simple and stress free and again this did not happen.
I moved back home to Sydney and Simon is based in Brisbane so I had to do a lot of the producing for this clip. I love dancing and love story telling, so Simon and I decided we wanted a building that looked like something out of Harry Potter, immediately I said we need to hire out a classroom in Sydney University, then we need a dance party to end the clip on a top notch roof top…easy right.
So I pulled in Wil Sabin http://www.wilsabinentertainment.com/#!touch-the-sky/c181h.
We started rehearsing and auditioning dancers, we even managed to get a dancer on board named Shivawn Joubert who was chosen by Beyoncé to feature in her film clip for Ghost & Mine.
Touch The Sky was a big production especially for an independent artist, somehow I pulled it all together against the odds of Simon being the Director being in a completely different state, our Rooftop location cancelling the night before filming and the fact that it decided to rain 15minutes into the outdoor scene.
The end result a very energetic clip with lots to keep your eyes busy.
Touch the Sky featured Wil Sabin and lead dancers:
Shivawn Joubert – http://jeepmanagement.com/profile/dancers/shivawn-joubert
Chris Tsattalios – http://jeepmanagement.com/profile/dancers/chris-tsattalios/
Tom Anastopoulos – http://jeepmanagement.com/profile/dancers/thomas-anastopoulos/
Ashleigh Tavares – http://jeepmanagement.com/profile/dancers/ashleigh-tavares/
Xander Jean – http://jeepmanagement.com/profile/dancers/xander-jean/
Michael Corbett –
Matt Antonucci
JORDAN HANNA
SAM PARKES
The way I approach my film clips is based on my love of story telling, I mean I could just get glammed up and walk around some amazing location and occasionally look into the camera and clip voilà done. However, as I write my own tracks I want my clips to go through a similar process of meaning and sharing a journey.
Simon is well known for his magic when filming music clips, his latest is filming three clips for The Amity Affliction. Two of the clips were filmed in 4 days and had an underwater scene built in.
Jo Cooper – https://www.facebook.com/JoCooperSings
Simon Smith – https://www.facebook.com/filmsmithmusicvideo