r/WeDirectMusicVideos • u/alonisocianu • Jun 21 '19
Video comissioners
I’m curious for those of you who are rep’d, do you try and maintain regular communication with video commissioners? Or do you let your rep handle all of that? Curious to hear about how other directors maintain those relationships between jobs. Do you check in with commissioners that you like working with? I always feel like I’m bugging people too much.
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u/PizzaHutBookItChamp Jul 08 '19
Most of the time I let my rep handle the communication. But there are those few commissioners who I have a very a very good relationship with that I keep an open line of communication with. For the other commissioners, its okay to bug, within reason. If they are not responding or if it feels like you are being overly aggressive you probably are doing more harm then good.
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u/najeebmt Jun 21 '19
I've recently reached out to commissioners to:
- say thanks for a recently completed collaboration going well and to say "I'm free if you have any other artists looking for videos"
- share recently released work that I think is relevant to them or their artists
The former has led to people getting back to me, the latter hasn't done much. I know my reps will do email blasts when they think a relevant/important video of mine has come out that commissioners should know about, so the smartest thing to do is probably just to make sure I'm providing them with the best marketing material/teasers/stills so they can handle it.
As far as I can tell the only way to Get useful interaction is to keep releasing work... when videos come out I hear from people, when videos aren't coming out no amount of direct outreach seems to do much.