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17.7.08 I'm Now Blogging the No-Dough Music Video Experience At Radar

Caroline at Radar asked me to blog about my so-called career at her site. Because she is nice and I believe in what she's trying to do, I said yes. First blog is excerpted below. Ongoing RSS is here. Direct link is here, but I strongly suggest you use the RSS feed as ARGH POOR WEBSITE DESIGN RAGE. Have written a second post which I'll put up in a day or two. Post the first:

Hi, my name's Alex. I've been a music video director for about two years, ever since Ryan Parker and I created a spec video for the band Flipron. "Raindrops Keep Falling on the Dead" proceeded to get screened at SXSW and a dozen other festivals, and get the band their first airplay on MTV and every other UK music channel. 12 or more videos (and the purchase of a Super16 camera) later, I'm still working mainly for a small group of very cool British bands and solo artists, all of whom I know personally. I'm told there are these things called reps and production companies and they're interested in up and coming directors, but between you and me I don't actually believe they exist. Every video I've ever made came from the artist contacting me directly, or me contacting the artist. Every budget I've ever had is string, pennies and pocket lint. My directing career has been funded entirely by Mastercard (I support myself in the real world by eBaying my late father's collection of vintage car books). My crew? They're paid in gin and burgers. I am tired and I am inches from filmmaking-induced bankruptcy and that, Virginia, is why I don't want to make a crappy £500 video for your generic indie band to fling up on MySpace. (CONTINUED...)

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