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Do You Need To Be Good At Drawing To Be A Music Video Director?

Discussion in 'Entertainment and Technology' started by ZenMusic, Feb 14, 2014.

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  1. ZenMusic

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    I always listen to the song and then think of music video in my head, so I figured you had to make a storyboard to show your ideas about the video. Thing is, I'm no Picasso. So, do you have to be good at drawing?
     
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    It doesn't hurt...but since your only doing it for fun at the moment its enough to be able to just get your ideas on paper well enough to follow them.
     
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    I am making one for Breathe and Pictures at the moment, for Conor Maynard.
     
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    Of course not! I'm the director of my school movie and I can't draw well at all! xD
     
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    No, you don't have to be. I draw all of my ideas with stick figures and drawing skills that make me look like a 5 year old...lol. As long as you can explain your ideas to others, then your drawing talent does not matter.
     
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  6. ZenMusic

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    Well, that's a relief. Thought my career would(not that I have one yet) have been ruiined if I drew a Huayra that looks like a piece of toast.
     
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    I understand.. when I try to draw birds.. they end up looking like tombstones.. and I also have a talent of drawing cars that look like carrots..
     
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    There's software geared specially towards storyboards so drawing skills aren't so crucial any more. What matters is being able to visualize it, think it through, then explain clearly what's in your head to the rest of the people on the project.
     
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    Ok so the idea for Breathe is a Romeo and Juliet thing, minus 95% of the story, and just the bit where they both die. Basically, they're driving along a desert, I'm trying to think of another 2 parts of the video, until suddenly.... He loses control of the car and crashes into the river/sea/ocean. He tries to save her but by the time he gets there....It's too late. As it is for him. They then go to "Heaven" together.
     
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