/r/MusicVideos is for well produced videos with a single song soundtrack

Posting Guidelines

• Artist - Title [genre] [year] Director/description/comment

Post real music videos, where the video itself is a creative work that goes along with the music.

• No album art videos
• No lyric videos
• No kinetic text videos
• No cellphone videos
• No webcam videos
• No slideshow videos
• No vacation videos
• No live performance videos
• No advertisements
• No low effort videos
• No stolen footage videos

YES to quality creative videos with a single song soundtrack that matches!

• Vimeo links are good
• YouTube links are better
• (NO Facebook, please)
• Link directly to music videos, not to blog posts or mobile sites.
• If you can't remember how to find a music video you are trying to remember, try /r/TipOfMyTongue
• Quality unofficial music videos are okay!
• Please report posts that aren't full-on creative music videos!

Great Music Video Blogs

• /r/MusicVideos attracts videos from all ends of the spectrum, sometimes making it hard to sift 'the shit' from 'da shit'. Here's a few sites offering curated selections.

• Promonews
• Video Static
• Nowness
• IMVDb
• Antville

Director Resources

Want to see your name up here? Directors looking for videos / briefs to direct should check out:

• Radar Music Videos
• Genero.TV

Example's of Music Video treatments:

• ALT J Δ // Breezeblocks [dir. Ellis Bahl] Brief can be found here -- final video here.
• Great example of a minimalist treatment by AG ROJAS. Astute & simple, it allows the concept to speak for itself.
• STANTON WARRIORS // Cut Me Up [dir. Edward Drake] Brief can be found here -- final video here.

Related Subreddits

• /r/Music
• /r/listentothis
• /r/fandurr for fan-made music videos
• /r/SlavicMusicVideos
• /r/ifyoulikeblank
• /r/ineedasong
• /r/MainstreamMusic
• /r/toonmusic
• /r/sexymusicvideos
• List of ALL Music subreddits Niche genre included.

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