Ben Peters

Ben Peters is a music video director who worked with people such as:

Tulisa

Alexandra Burk

Wiley

And many more...

When Ben Peter talk with my class and he taught us how many people are involved in making a music video. Before I thought that the director is the most important person when making films or videos but he taught me that everyone that is involved are as important as the director because without one of them it would be difficult to make the film or video. He also taught the difference between a music video and a short film. I found out that there is not that much difference between them except from the duration. He gave us videos to watch without the sound and tested us to see if we could guess what genre of music it might. We mostly got it wrong but it showed that we don't need to go by the stereotypical images to make a music video e.g. having half naked girls, gold chains, money and designer clothes to make a hip hop, rap video. This made me think outside the box for my own video. It made me want to make something different for my music video.
The video that he done with Wiley inspired me to do my music video.

Wiley's video

He said that doing Wiley's video was the cheapest video that he had done but it was really effective. He got random people to hold up a fake Ipad to there face. He also said that he only had ten minutes to spend with Wiley so he had to think out of the box to make a three minute music video especially when the artist is taking about nonsense. He said we shouldn't try and make a £10,000 music video and spend £10 on it because it wouldn't work. He then showed us some of his videos that he done and talked through how he had the ideas he came up with and he gave us his pre-post production from some of the his videos.
Ben Peters gave us some advice which was if we ever want to be involved in doing a music video we need to email a company who do music video to be a runner and then work beside someone who you want to end up being in your career. He said that you need to be passionate about doing the job and very flexible in days and hours and it could get you promoted until you get to be whet you want to be.
All in all I learnt so much from Ben Peters in only an hour and a half.