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Production

Crew sizes, shoot lengths, setups per day and the occasional stated budget, taken from people describing their own productions on the record. The numbers here are small and specific, which is what makes them useful.

Everything on the Production desk

£2,000

A complete music video, stated by the director who spent it

Colin Peppard, on his video for Makeshift Art Bar's "Discipline": "So we pitched the idea, flew to Benidorm, shot 7 hours of footage, edited it, graded it within the space of a month, all with only a £2k budget."
Juan Fernando Velasco, leader of Sonido Distrito Sur
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Festival crowd under lights with Superstruct name referenced in the press release
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Abstract illustration of a small crew diagram
Production

Three people, four people, one studio day: what crews actually look like

Published crew lists suggest a music video needs a department structure. The productions whose makers described them honestly ran on three or four people, and said so.
Andreas Schuller; practical songwriting business checklist
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Andreas Schuller: How to Be a Professional Hit Songwriter

Andreas Schuller breaks down song creation, publishing basics, and the business actions writers must take to get paid and placed.