Documentary video about grassroots music biz
A series of short (5-20 minutes) documentary videos for musicians where we take a video camera into the offices of...
- club bookers
- film/tv music supervisors
- booking agents
- magazine writers
- radio programmers
- website editors
- indie labels
... interviewing them, to show how it works from their point of view. Asking their advice for artists who would like to impress them.
The goal is to help musicians be more successful in their interactions, by understanding the mindset and concerns of the real people that run the grassroots of the music biz.
Who's filming it? Maybe you!
At first I thought I'd do this film myself. Fly around the world for a few months, interviewing dozens of people. Then rising gas prices gave me a better idea. What if many musicians were to each be the filmmaker for one interview? I could pay for a central-office coordinator and pay for the editing afterwards, but the actual interviews could each be done by a local musician.
Interested? Here's how it works:
- You need a good DV camcorder, and a lavalier mic.
- Submit a 1-minute test-interview with a friend for proof of video and audio quality.
- If accepted, tell us who you'd like to interview, or let us assign you an interviewee.
- We'll run an open poll of musicians to get top-10 questions they'd like to ask this person.
- We'll coordinate the interview and you go do it.
- Submit the video tapes to the main office for editing and we'll do the rest.
- You get full credit. Although this documentary has no plans for profit, if there is future profit, you'll share in it equally.
