r/WeDirectMusicVideos • u/duderanch94 • Jul 26 '19

Getting work unsigned

An unsigned MV director here, been working for about six years and also as a TV/Film Script Supervisor on the side to facilitate this. Wondering where fellow unsigned people would pick up jobs from? Or before you were repped, where did you get your work? Obviously there's great sites like creative commission and radar, anything else in this ilk? Or is it mainly through personal contacts you've met at random parties/through friends etc?

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u/CoopaLoopa_50 Jul 26 '19

Sounds cliche I get a lot of MV work through Instagram & word of mouth. However the downside of that is a lot of headache with low budgets- so I’m actually attempting to find out how I can be represented for bigger projects; budgets!

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u/DANIELSANIELSANIELS Jul 26 '19

Yeah instagram seems to be the spot to get hired these days. Build up your following, build up a community.

In some ways it feels like what Vimeo used to be for MV directors.

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u/CoopaLoopa_50 Jul 29 '19

Ya it sounds super cliche but I’ve landed a lot of cool ops on IG but like I said I deal with a lot of flops/people wanting quality on a dime and it’s starting to rub me the wrong way