Emil Nava

Emil Nava is very pro found music and advert director of the modern age, he started of being runner for film production companies such as blink productions and now freelances for OB management.

After working as a runner, he graduated to assistant director (A.D.) where he would manage his own videos. He signed to Academy who are the biggest music video production company and then worked for between the Eyes and now works mainly for Pulse

He now has begun to make adverts, which are of quite a high budget and production values but only allow for limited creativity.

When at his busiest Emil has made up to 24 music videos in one year, he began shooting videos for independent labels and the budget would be no higher than £10,000, although his most expensive video made was for Jessie J and the budget was £160,000

Emil's first budget was for the band Kid British and the track Our House, he had a budget of £20,000 and shot it in Manchester, he had a set of local people be the cast and was all shot in one day with two to three days to edit and ten days pre production.

OB Management

• Their aim is to Nurture talent
• Work with production companies 
• Work with record labels 
• Match the right directors with the right artists 

Some of the Production companies that OB work with are: 

• Pulse Films 
• Rocket 
• Agile Films 
• Friends 
• Wonda 

Emil's Top Tips

• Use Extreme Close Up on faces wherever possible 
• Do not shoot the whole video in medium or long shoot, an example of this is Sinead O' Connor's - Nothing Compares to U